Resources

Similar to the site "HiNative" this website is aimed at Japanese people studying English. So it is a great resource to help you reverse engineer their answers and learn Japanese from them.

This is a question and answer website similar to Quorra and Chiebukuro.

Popular Japanese Q&A site similar to Quora. It has a variety of questions asked by Native speakers and offers multiple perspectives on many questions.

This is a really cute site that features a lot of baby books created by the owner of the site themself! This is perfect for those new to Japanese, however the site is entirely in Japanese. Despite that, it is still fairly easy to navigate and use the site.

If you have ever watched a Michael Reeves video, then you will know just how chaotic and interesting they can be. Now take that and put it into Japanese with a lot of explosions and screams, and you have Riku. He speaks insanely fast, but he does have subtitles available!

If you are looking for something that is reminiscent of 2016 Youtube but in Japanese, you should check out this channel. Fully in Japanese with embedded subtitles, this creator uses plenty of slang and modern Japanese for you to learn from. He does speak quite quickly though, so this is not for beginners!

This youtube channel is great if you like watching Japanese style programs, the content is centered around life in Osaka and other cultural points relating to Japanese life. There may be some Kansai-Ben, so be warned!

As the title suggests, this is a youtube channel that uploads clips from a radio broadcast in Osaka! You should expect to hear native level speeds as well as a decent amount of "textbook" Japanese. Fair warning, this channel is based out of the Kansai region, so you may encounter some Kansai-Ben!