Learn Japanese with fun stories
Rin & Tadashi is a YouTube channel that teaches Japanese with stories, folklore and curiosities. The Japanese N5 Speedrun is its free course: from zero to basic Japanese, 30 minutes a day.
Why “Speedrun”?
Not because you’ll learn Japanese in a week. Because there’s no filler: every minute of every level is there for a reason. The video is the class; the homework here is the rest of the course.
Why a metro map?
Because learning a language is a trip you take one stop at a time. The course is six lines, from the Onigiri Line to the Fuji Line. Every level is a station, every gate is a transfer with a guardian checking your ticket, and the last stop is the Dragon Gate, 竜門 (ryūmon). Climbing it, 登竜門 (tōryūmon), is the Japanese word for “the gateway to success” — and our metro lines are named after it.
- EOnigiriおにぎり線
- DSushi寿司線
- CMatcha抹茶線
- BRamenラーメン線
- ASakura桜線
- SFuji富士線
37 stations5 transfer gates1 terminal · 竜門
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Questions, ideas or a typo in the course? Write to hello@rinandtadashi.com. Mikan guards the inbox.