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Short, level-graded episodes you actually understand — read along with a transcript that follows the audio, tap any word for its meaning, and turn on the reading for any script. For absolute-beginner through low-intermediate learners.
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市場の朝
ご近所の暮らし · 第3話
listen — the line lights up
the transcript’s tools · every language
The same tools, in every script.
Pinyin over Chinese, transliteration under Arabic, the full translation for German — with the same colour linking every word to its meaning, and hover any word to light up what it maps to. Same tools, one tap, whatever the script. Watch them resolve.
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jīntiān今天zǎoshang早上wǒ我qùle去了shìchǎng市场。
This morning I went to the market.
dhahabtuذهبت ilāإلى as-sūqالسوق.
I went to the market.
Heute Morgen ging ich zum Markt.
This morning I went to the market.
What you get
The whole method is the reading — tap a word for its meaning, see a fixed phrase as one chunk, and read the grammar in context. Here they are, open, actual size.
La señora me regaló unas uvas.
regaló
gave (as a gift)
regalar · preterite · 3rd person
Tap a word
Tap any word for its meaning and a note on the form, then keep it with one tap — the audio pronounces it too.
Esta mañana fui al mercado.
esta mañana ×this morning
refer to something that happened or will happen during the current morning
Phrases, not just words
Fixed expressions and collocations are marked as one chunk — its real meaning and when to use it, in the teal phrases layer.
Je parle un peu français.
present -er verbs ×Regular -er verbs drop -er and add the present endings: parler → je parle, tu parles, il parle, nous parlons, vous parlez, ils parlent.
stem + [-e / -es / -e / -ons / -ez / -ent]
Je parle un peu français.
I speak a little French.
Grammar, in context
Patterns are marked right where they appear — the conjugation, its shape, and a worked example drawn from the episode itself.
after the episode
Review & Speak
Close a story and make it stick: say the lines back out loud and check yourself against the model answer, look over the words you kept, and take them anywhere — a real Anki deck, one click.
Say it back
out loudsay this in japanese
“The lady gave me some grapes.”
Say it out loud in your own words — then reveal the model line to check yourself.
The words you kept
4 savedmarket
vocab
grapes
vocab
went
vocab
giving toward the speaker
grammar
A passive reference — no review queue, no scheduling. Kept from the words and grammar you tapped as you read.
Take them to Anki
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lingotide-japanese.apkg
4 cards
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deck · LingoTide::Japanese
市場
いちば
ichiba
market
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