Wakatta turns real Japanese podcasts into tappable lessons: tap any word for its meaning + furigana, mark what you miss, review it later with spaced repetition, and an AI sensei explains the rest. Free, no account. iOS & Android.
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Hi Product Hunt π I'm Mariano. I built Wakatta because the hardest jump in learning Japanese was going from textbook Japanese to *real* Japanese β the stuff people actually say on podcasts.
So Wakatta takes real Japanese podcasts and YouTube and makes every word tappable: tap for the meaning + furigana, mark what you didn't catch, and it comes back later in spaced-repetition review. When a whole sentence won't click, an AI sensei breaks it down. It's all built around listening β the skill that's hardest to train.
It's free and you can start without an account. I'm still learning Japanese myself, so I'm basically building the app I wanted. Would love your feedback β especially from fellow learners: what would make it click for you? π§
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Saving custom vocabulary decks would be huge, like being able to tag words by show or topic so I can review only the slang from a specific podcast later instead of one giant mixed list.
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@bedriyeenyv1wbΒ Hi, thanks for the feedback! Yeah, custom vocabulary decks are coming!
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Tapping words mid-listen for furigana and meanings without losing the flow is genuinely useful, and the spaced repetition catching what I actually missed makes it feel like real study instead of busywork.
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@tahadvwaΒ "Real study instead of busywork" is literally the line I keep in my head while building this π That's why the review deck only ever resurfaces words you tapped and missed β never a generic frequency list. You end up drilling your own gaps, from shows you actually chose to listen to.
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The tap-any-word-to-translate thing is honestly so smooth, feels way less clunky than copying into a dictionary every five seconds. Surprised how well the furigana works on tricky kanji.
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@pelinxjgHa β "copying into a dictionary every five seconds" is the exact pain that made me build this. That little context-switch quietly kills your listening every time. And yeah, the furigana on gnarly kanji was the hardest part to get right, so that means a lot.
Saving custom vocabulary decks would be huge, like being able to tag words by show or topic so I can review only the slang from a specific podcast later instead of one giant mixed list.
@bedriyeenyv1wbΒ Hi, thanks for the feedback! Yeah, custom vocabulary decks are coming!
Tapping words mid-listen for furigana and meanings without losing the flow is genuinely useful, and the spaced repetition catching what I actually missed makes it feel like real study instead of busywork.
@tahadvwaΒ "Real study instead of busywork" is literally the line I keep in my head while building this π That's why the review deck only ever resurfaces words you tapped and missed β never a generic frequency list. You end up drilling your own gaps, from shows you actually chose to listen to.
The tap-any-word-to-translate thing is honestly so smooth, feels way less clunky than copying into a dictionary every five seconds. Surprised how well the furigana works on tricky kanji.
@pelinxjgHa β "copying into a dictionary every five seconds" is the exact pain that made me build this. That little context-switch quietly kills your listening every time. And yeah, the furigana on gnarly kanji was the hardest part to get right, so that means a lot.