&gt; accent? Structure? I have no ideaIts a combination of many things, intonation and delivery, politeness (formality, honorifics etc.) level, word choice, particle choice.Its known as onnarashii (女らしい) speech.Its a historical thing which is gradually falling out of use. These days you tend to only mostly find it in situations where the politeness levels are needed&#x2F;expected (e.g. hospitality industry).

It can happen with a lot of languages. I&#x27;m a man who learned Russian mainly through several months of traveling rural Russia where I learned quickly to avoid men: they were mostly hopeless drunks (or drug addicts) and could go from friendly to violent in an instant. So, when I needed to ask for information or directions, I turned to the women who were around. The result is that Russians find my speech distinctly female-coded.

It may be more pronounced in Japanese, but it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s totally without precedent in English either.Imagine a male, non-native English speaker learning from a group of stay-at-home moms. Deep South, Midwest, take your pick. He&#x27;s gonna pick up some stuff. Men in the US aren&#x27;t expected to say &quot;Aw honey,&quot; or &quot;Bless yer heart!&quot;

Could be worse. He could have ended each sentence with dattebayo.

yes, you&#x27;re precieved weak&#x2F;femenine and possible for lack of better word, gay&#x2F;lgbtthe same goes for many langauges, but you need to learn the same japanese but different form and way its spoken. I had this issue too, luckily a few japanese women helped me OL&#x2F;dates so I could steer but this is a big issue

My cousin speaks fluent Japanese. He had another western acquaintance living in Japan that was a stay-at-home dad who spent his days with Japanese mothers. It seems that women speak differently enough from men where the guy was learning female speaking (accent? Structure? I have no idea) and so my cousin had to talk to him privately and tell him he speaks like a woman...

ok so it&#x27;s meant to be speaking practice, expressing yourself in Japanese, but i go to actually try it and it&#x27;s just translation exercises based on what the guy in the video said?Like it has a sentence he said in Japanese, in English, and you have to translate it back to Japanese? But the sentence isn&#x27;t a really a response to anything, it&#x27;s just something the guy saidI don&#x27;t get it

well you have a reasonable enough sales pitch on the homepage but I don&#x27;t see what youtube videos have to do with itand I put a video in to try and apparently there&#x27;s a 26 minute wait

Replace YouTube with anime and I&#x27;m interested

Is pitch accent included &#x2F; noted? That can make a big difference.

Yes, good idea. After German is completed please do Mandarin next.

I&#x27;ve actually built something that you might find interesting. manalect.comIt&#x27;s not exactly what JIVX is, but it can help you practice with sentences. And I&#x27;m currently working on a voice only mode.It&#x27;s something I&#x27;m still developing so it might have issues.

Immerse yourself as best as possible. If you’re learning Japanese, watch anime and J-dramas. If you’re learning Spanish, shop at local Mexi-marts and watch Telemundo. This was the game changer for me.

agreed i&#x27;d love a german and spanish version of this

Me too! I couldn&#x27;t find one so I cobbled one together. I wrote enough python for all the parts to work together. I can speak Japanese into it, it gets recognized, and - all too eagerly - the chatbot corrects my mistakes.My stack, running locally on a Windows 10 machine:
- Vosk STT augmented with vosk-model-ja-0.22 for Japanese
- Gemma4 LLM running in Ollama and with customized model card to act as a Japanese tutor 
- Kokoro TTS using Japanese voice jf_alpha.pt and augmented with the unidic Japanese dictionary

Wouldn’t AI be, by definition, better at translating than even a dictionary? I guess I don’t know if that translates to teaching, however.

Isn&#x27;t it called Mistral Voxtral 3[1]Not that I would trust an AI chatbot with Japanese. Most online text translators can barely cope with Japanese, DeepL is the only one that provides passable results. Its a tricky language.[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mistral.ai&#x2F;news&#x2F;voxtral-3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mistral.ai&#x2F;news&#x2F;voxtral-3&#x2F;</a>

I just want an easy-to-use offline AI chatbot that I can converse with in Japanese to practice with at native speed.Does this not exist yet?

Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line