Hello to everyone, so I also found this website a while ago and I kind of like it for reading (and it is good that it is for free. I also tried the different options with romaji, kana and Kanji. The romaji shows, when you have the Kanji off and the readings on (I don’t need it anymore but it is good to know for total beginners).
Thanks for introducing me to this! Satori Reader is still a little too challenging for my sub-basement of beginner-ness. I’m now your newest subscriber!
sub-basement of beginner-ness 🤣🤣 It's so hard to find good reading resources when you're in that beginner phase! Glad my little exploration into this app was helpful for you ☺
Thank you so much for the video! I just started learning Japanese and found Satori's content to be too advanced for me. I'll be giving Yomu Yomu a try!
I just checked the Jisho site and it turns out that 'unevenness, bumpiness' can be written either as 凸凹 (でこぼこ) or 凹凸 (おうとつ). Japanese never fails to amaze me 😂
From what I recall you said about your Japanese goals for this year and where you're currently at, I think Yomu Yomu would probably be a better fit for you out of the two!
I just discovered Yomu Yomu and I do find for my level of Japanese it is way easier than Satori reader. I do think the Satori reader has way better voices but seems to be more for intermediate levels. Great review!
Thanks for this really helpful review. I just saw your comment on Ari no yume reading videos and had to check out your video. It seems like yomu yomu is more my thing since I personally find the satori reader stories that interesting. But since I’m still a beginner this kind of content is more suitable for my level. I was actually always a little bit jealous of the Mandarin Chinese learner because of what I saw about the du Chinese app. So I’m really glad to see that they now have an app for Japanese learners as well. So thanks for pointing that out.
So glad it was helpful for you! Yomu Yomu has a ways to go until it's as fully fleshed out as Du Chinese, but I have high hopes for it! And I definitely think it's much more approachable for a wider range of learner levels.
I'm so excited for people to finally get access to a bunch of graded readers in Japanese. It was my dream to access that kind of content back in the day and today's beginners and intermediates are able to benefit from it. Edit: I didn't realize you showed the master level... yeah the master level looks to be about B2 (if you could really compare on that scale). I saw one word I didn't know 設立 (せつりつ）But I guess that goes to show why I immerse on Netflix 😝. I'm doing the same with the new TTMIK Stories app. I'm sooo excited to be able to reinforce the vocabulary I already know and continue to learn more Korean as a beginner from those graded readers. P.S.: For the robotic nature of the voices, I sometimes like to speed it up just a bit I find it gives it a more lively feeling sometimes.
Speeding it up definitely could help it sound a bit less flat, although I think it probably still wouldn't come close to actual recordings from professional voice actors that use actual emotion 😂 But overall, like you mention, I think the app is overall a great new feature for beginners especially and opens up the world of reading Japanese to people at a much lower level. Thanks so much for your evaluation of the "master" level from a more advanced learner's perspective! And yeah, like I mentioned, the "master" articles didn't seem markedly complex even to me (especially not enough to have the title of "master"), although its range of vocab was definitely more advanced than what I currently know. Despite "master" being a bit of an exaggeration to say the least, I still think the app has incredible range for what it is. For it to cover from the very basics of beginner Japanese all the way to relatively high-level short articles on a variety of more academic topics, that's great range for what is essentially a collection of graded readers. Once you get to B2-C level language learning, you really don't tend to need graded readers anymore anyways -- you can much more easily consume native content and learn from that.
@@SomedayKorean Thanks for this very useful review. The audio is indeed AI, as you suspected. The simplest way to test this is to take the speed of the spoken text down to 0.5. Any audio recording of a human voice will be noticeably distorted because of the mismatch with the original sampling rate, whereas the sound quality of AI will be unimpaired. Satori, by contrast, with audio recordings of voice actors, only offers 0.8 as the lowest speed, because (presumably) they don't want to create a bad impression with distorted sound at lower speeds.
Yeah, my natural speech rate is quite fast... even native English speakers mention it sometimes 😂 I sometimes try to talk a bit slower, but I always seem to speed back up... it's a bad habit
@ indeed, my Scottish friend used to say that most native English speakers need to learn to speak English slowly and clearly more than to learn foreign languages;). I saw native English speakers at international conferences ruining their presentations by speaking too fast;)
@@agatazdanowicz3906 Haha thankfully when I'm teaching or in other settings like that, I speak much more slowly and clearly, but when it's just me and a friend (or me and the camera) jabbering, my tendency to speak fast emerges 😆
Hello to everyone, so I also found this website a while ago and I kind of like it for reading (and it is good that it is for free. I also tried the different options with romaji, kana and Kanji. The romaji shows, when you have the Kanji off and the readings on (I don’t need it anymore but it is good to know for total beginners).
Thanks so much for clearing that up! Pinning this comment so that people who need romaji can see your helpful tip ☺
Thanks for introducing me to this! Satori Reader is still a little too challenging for my sub-basement of beginner-ness. I’m now your newest subscriber!
sub-basement of beginner-ness 🤣🤣
It's so hard to find good reading resources when you're in that beginner phase! Glad my little exploration into this app was helpful for you ☺
Thank you so much for the video! I just started learning Japanese and found Satori's content to be too advanced for me. I'll be giving Yomu Yomu a try!
Yay, glad this video was helpful for you! Let me know what you think!
I just checked the Jisho site and it turns out that 'unevenness, bumpiness' can be written either as 凸凹 (でこぼこ) or 凹凸 (おうとつ). Japanese never fails to amaze me 😂
Omg I love that 🤣
Very good video! I’ve never used Yomu or Satori, so I’ll have to look into both of these to try them out for myself
From what I recall you said about your Japanese goals for this year and where you're currently at, I think Yomu Yomu would probably be a better fit for you out of the two!
I just discovered Yomu Yomu and I do find for my level of Japanese it is way easier than Satori reader. I do think the Satori reader has way better voices but seems to be more for intermediate levels. Great review!
Thanks! Yeah, Satori Reader's target audience is definitely not true beginners in Japanese. 😂
Thank you Dear sister for sharing this information with us 🙏
Thanks for this really helpful review. I just saw your comment on Ari no yume reading videos and had to check out your video. It seems like yomu yomu is more my thing since I personally find the satori reader stories that interesting. But since I’m still a beginner this kind of content is more suitable for my level. I was actually always a little bit jealous of the Mandarin Chinese learner because of what I saw about the du Chinese app. So I’m really glad to see that they now have an app for Japanese learners as well. So thanks for pointing that out.
So glad it was helpful for you! Yomu Yomu has a ways to go until it's as fully fleshed out as Du Chinese, but I have high hopes for it! And I definitely think it's much more approachable for a wider range of learner levels.
I'm so excited for people to finally get access to a bunch of graded readers in Japanese. It was my dream to access that kind of content back in the day and today's beginners and intermediates are able to benefit from it. Edit: I didn't realize you showed the master level... yeah the master level looks to be about B2 (if you could really compare on that scale). I saw one word I didn't know 設立 (せつりつ）But I guess that goes to show why I immerse on Netflix 😝. I'm doing the same with the new TTMIK Stories app. I'm sooo excited to be able to reinforce the vocabulary I already know and continue to learn more Korean as a beginner from those graded readers. P.S.: For the robotic nature of the voices, I sometimes like to speed it up just a bit I find it gives it a more lively feeling sometimes.
Speeding it up definitely could help it sound a bit less flat, although I think it probably still wouldn't come close to actual recordings from professional voice actors that use actual emotion 😂 But overall, like you mention, I think the app is overall a great new feature for beginners especially and opens up the world of reading Japanese to people at a much lower level.
Thanks so much for your evaluation of the "master" level from a more advanced learner's perspective! And yeah, like I mentioned, the "master" articles didn't seem markedly complex even to me (especially not enough to have the title of "master"), although its range of vocab was definitely more advanced than what I currently know. Despite "master" being a bit of an exaggeration to say the least, I still think the app has incredible range for what it is. For it to cover from the very basics of beginner Japanese all the way to relatively high-level short articles on a variety of more academic topics, that's great range for what is essentially a collection of graded readers. Once you get to B2-C level language learning, you really don't tend to need graded readers anymore anyways -- you can much more easily consume native content and learn from that.
@@SomedayKorean Thanks for this very useful review. The audio is indeed AI, as you suspected. The simplest way to test this is to take the speed of the spoken text down to 0.5. Any audio recording of a human voice will be noticeably distorted because of the mismatch with the original sampling rate, whereas the sound quality of AI will be unimpaired. Satori, by contrast, with audio recordings of voice actors, only offers 0.8 as the lowest speed, because (presumably) they don't want to create a bad impression with distorted sound at lower speeds.
Best language learning app... but for independent learners. If you know how to use it, it's amazing.
Thank you so much😊 for non-native English speakers you may be speaking a little bit too fast at times😂
Yeah, my natural speech rate is quite fast... even native English speakers mention it sometimes 😂 I sometimes try to talk a bit slower, but I always seem to speed back up... it's a bad habit
@ indeed, my Scottish friend used to say that most native English speakers need to learn to speak English slowly and clearly more than to learn foreign languages;). I saw native English speakers at international conferences ruining their presentations by speaking too fast;)
@@agatazdanowicz3906 Haha thankfully when I'm teaching or in other settings like that, I speak much more slowly and clearly, but when it's just me and a friend (or me and the camera) jabbering, my tendency to speak fast emerges 😆