Yuyu No Nihongo Podcast
We're thrilled to bring you this special collaboration between Satori Reader and Yuyu No Nihongo Podcast, a popular YouTube channel known for its fun and engaging monologues on a wide range of topics, from humorous anecdotes, to discussions of cultural differences, to musings about the meaning of life. Listening to Yuyu feels like tuning into your favorite late-night radio host: a friendly and familiar voice that is always warm and genuine.
For this series, we've done minimal editing, which means you'll hear more of the hesitation sounds and mid-sentence (sometimes mid-word!) corrections that people make in real-life, unscripted speech. Our goal is to immerse you in the kind of Japanese you'll encounter as you explore native podcasts on your own. As always, you can count on Satori Reader’s detailed annotations to help guide you through it all, making this series a fantastic way to ease into this kind of content.
The best part is that if you enjoy what you see here, there are literally hundreds more episodes to listen to on Yuyu's various channels (see his bio for more). We sincerely hope you enjoy this series.
(Ongoing)
Episode 1
Yuyu welcomes you to the series and introduces himself.
Notes: This episode contains a note on using とか with the ～たり～たり pattern, one on the expression ということで, and more.
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Episode 2
Yuyu tells us more about his personal history.
Notes: This episode contains a note on using the word かたち to capture the overall contours of a process or personal history, a pattern for saying you would like things to work out a certain way, and more.
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Episode 3
Yuyu talks about his interests.
Notes: This episode contains a note on a common pattern to introduce a topic, one on a pattern for saying "without (verbing)," and more.
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Episode 4
Yuyu goes into more detail about the kinds of anime and games he likes.
Notes: This episode contains a note on why words are sometimes written partially in katakana and partially in hiragana, one on why a phrase sometimes ends with a dangling みたいな…, and more.
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Episode 5
Yuyu introduces the concept of a "life slogan" and tells us what his is.
Notes: This episode contains a note on how to name specific kanji in conversation, one on a secondary use of the familiar suffix ～ながら, and more.
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| Standard | Unread | 869 |
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Episode 6
Yuyu explains how his life motto fits into his podcast name, and what attracted him to putting his podcasts on Satori Reader.
Notes: This episode contains a note that looks closely at the word 余裕 (よゆう), one that helps navigate through a sentence that changed direction midway through, and more.
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Episode 7
Yuyu jumps right into the topic of embarrassing stories by discussing two cringe-worthy scenarios.
Notes: This episode contains a note on different ways to use the word for "forget," one on the indirect passive, and more.
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Episode 8
Yuyu talks more about the zipper expression and prepares to begin his own story.
Notes: This episode contains a note about a contraction and Kansai dialect sentence ender, a discussion of a way to create humble equivalents of verbs, and more.
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Episode 9
With no further ado, Yuyu begins his tale of tragedy.
Notes: This episode contains a note on a pattern used to define a term before saying more about it, one on a use of the particle と in storytelling, and more.
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Episode 10
Yuyu experiences a 180-degree change in his outlook...but then encounters a challenge.
Notes: This episode contains a note that talks about a conversational use of the pair 有り・無し (あり・なし), a note that explains a long sentence, and more.
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Episode 11
Yuyu comes up with a plan to talk to the young woman.
Notes: This episode contains a note on the very casual quotation marker つって, one on using あった・いた when finding lost items, and more.
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Episode 12
Yuyu second-guesses his own second guesses.
Notes: This episode contains a note about a pattern that means "It is more ~ to (verb)," one on やっぱり, and more.
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| Standard | Unread | 497 |
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Episode 13
Yuyu finalizes his plan and puts it into action.
Notes: This episode contains a note on a special use of それこそ, one on a use of 話 to mean "the matter/topic at hand," and more.
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Episode 14
Yuyu comes face to face with the young woman.
Notes: This episode contains a note on using the word というか to correct yourself mid-sentence, one on the word てっきり to indicate a thought you previously believed 100% but now understand to be mistaken, and more.
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Episode 15
Embarrassment gives way to enchantment as Yuyu experiences a magic moment.
Notes: This episode contains a note on an expression that means "no matter how you think about it," one that breaks down a tricky (but adorable) sentence, and more.
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Episode 16
Yuyu concludes his story with lessons learned.
Notes: This episode contains two long breakdowns of tricky sentences.
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Episode 17
Yuyu introduces an important Japanese aesthetic sense.
Notes: This episode contains a note on the word いきなり, one on how to use なにか as an adverb, and more.
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| Standard | Unread | 426 |
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Episode 18
Yuyu gives a nutshell explanation of wabi-sabi.
Notes: This episode contains a note on the difference between 見える and 見られる, one on using もの to refer to intangible things, and more.
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Episode 19
Yuyu focuses on the wabi part of the equation.
Notes: This episode contains a breakdown of a long but important sentence.
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Episode 20
Yuyu explains why the concept of wabi became important.
Notes: This episode contains a note on the contraction そりゃ, a note on a suffix that means "-centric," and more.
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Episode 21
Yuyu zeros in on wabi by contrasting two famous temples in Kyoto.
Notes: This episode contains a note on a phrase that allows you to be discreet by leaving a word or phrase to the listener's imagination.
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| Standard | Unread | 244 |
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Episode 22
Yuyu expands on what it might mean to feel wabi in the context of Ginkaku-ji.
Notes: This episode contains a note on how to say that something is "Instagrammable" in Japanese.
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| Standard | Unread | 184 |
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Episode 23
Yuyu talks about a way to feel wabi in your everyday life.
Notes: This episode contains a note on a phrase that can help your explanations to be clearer, one on an expression that means "from very expensive to very cheap items; the whole range," and more.
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| Standard | Unread | 72 |