Wakatta turns real Japanese podcasts into tappable lessons. Tap any word to understand it — and an AI sensei explains the parts that don’t make sense yet.
👉 The phone is the real app — press ▶ or tap a word.
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Tap a word in any transcript and save it — it’ll wait for you here.
to brew (coffee, tea); to make (a drink)
✦ In context — here it follows 起きて, so it’s “…and then I brew coffee.”
This is the ‑て form of 起きる. It chains actions — “I wake up and then…” brew coffee. The line lists a morning routine in order.
Tap “Explain” to unpack it, or ▶ to re-listen to just that slice — then swipe it away once it clicks.
Bring any show from the open podcast world
No dictionary apps, no copy-paste, no losing your place. Every word in every transcript is alive — tap for an instant reading, meaning, and the chance to save it for review.
Reading, meaning, and part of speech in one tap — without leaving the audio.
Tap “Explain” on any line and the tutor breaks down the grammar in plain English — the て-form, particles, why が and not は.
Lost the thread but don’t want to stop? One tap marks the last ~10 seconds — eyes-free — and it’s waiting in your review later.
This is the ‑て form of 起きる. Here it links two actions — “I wake up and then…” brew coffee. ▍
It’s the listening you’d do anyway — just made comprehensible.
Search any podcast — try “Teppei” — and follow the shows that actually interest you. Anime, news, two friends rambling.
The text lights up word-by-word as it’s spoken. Tap anything you don’t know; ask the AI when a sentence won’t click.
Saved words become spaced-repetition flashcards — replayed with the exact sentence and audio you first heard. Your streak, words and hours grow with you.
Search any Japanese show, or filter by JLPT level — N5 to N1. Follow the ones you genuinely enjoy; your saved words and listening pick up right where you left off.
N5 through N1 chips sort the catalogue from beginner to native, so you start where you actually are.
“Continue listening” keeps your episodes and progress one tap away — no hunting for your place.
Comprehensible input, every day, from audio you actually want to hear.
Word-synced text that lights up as it’s spoken, with furigana, romaji and part-of-speech you can toggle on or off.
Lost the thread? One tap marks the last ~10 seconds — eyes-free — and saves it to revisit and unpack later.
Ask “why が not は?” on any sentence and get a clear, contextual answer — not a textbook page.
Tapped words flow into a spaced-repetition deck, replayed with the exact sentence and audio you first heard.
Dictionary meanings from JMdict in English, Español, Français, 日本語 and more — set it to whatever you think in.
A daily-minutes goal and a quiet streak — encouraging, never nagging or cartoonish.
Start where you are. Wakatta makes even fast, authentic Japanese followable.
“I got tired of pausing every podcast to copy a word into a dictionary and losing my place. Wakatta is the tool I wished existed — tap what you don’t know, mark what you miss, and keep listening.”
Pick a podcast you’d listen to anyway. Tap the words you don’t know. Watch Japanese start to make sense. Be first through the door.