About Us

Two people, six thousand miles apart, making Japanese make sense.

Hello — we're Jay and Yuri

Yuri lives in Tokyo. Jay lives in London.

We started making videos together because the resources we wanted didn't quite exist.

What we're trying to fix

Most beginners don't quit Japanese because it's hard. They quit because they lose the thread — a grammar point arrives with no warning, a vocabulary list has no obvious use, and after a few weeks it's unclear whether any progress is being made at all.

So we build things in order. Every workbook follows on from the last, every phrase is one you'd genuinely use, and you always know what comes next. Kana appears with romaji and English alongside it, so you're never stranded halfway through a sentence with no way back.

Yuri makes sure the Japanese is real. Jay makes sure it's actually followable.

Where Juri comes in

Juri is the small ghost you'll meet on every page. Her name is half of ours — J from Jay, uri from Yuri — which is a fitting way to describe the whole project, really. There to keep you company through the parts that feel slow.

What we make

Printable workbooks for complete beginners, built to work alongside our free YouTube lessons.

Everything here is made by the two of us. No committee, no publisher, no filler chapters.

日本語をはじめよう — let's start Japanese.