NHKやさしいことばニュース
NHK reads the news slowly in deliberately simple Japanese, as a podcast.
- LevelFor beginners · For intermediate
- PriceFree
- Made forFor learners
- Episodes here5 newest
- NHKやさしいことばニュース 2026年9月16日 午後7:30 16 Sept 2026 · 5 min
- NHKやさしいことばニュース 2026年9月15日 午後7:30 15 Sept 2026 · 5 min
- NHKやさしいことばニュース 2026年9月14日 午後7:30 14 Sept 2026 · 5 min
- NHKやさしいことばニュース 2026年9月11日 午後7:30 11 Sept 2026 · 5 min
- NHKやさしいことばニュース 2026年9月10日 午後7:30 10 Sept 2026 · 5 min
What it is
The audio counterpart to NHK News Web Easy: a short radio programme in which the day's news is retold slowly, in plain vocabulary, with difficult words explained as they come up. It is made for foreign residents of Japan rather than for classroom learners, so the topics are real news but the delivery is deliberately gentle — this is one of the very few genuinely comprehensible native-produced news sources. Episodes are brief and the feed keeps only the most recent handful, so subscribe rather than binge. Started in 2026, so there is no deep back catalogue.
Episodes are played straight from the publisher's feed — nothing is hosted here, and the five newest are whatever the feed served when this page was last built. All Japanese podcasts →