Learn Japanese with First Love
Yes, First Love is a B1-level pick for Japanese learners. This contemplative romance uses slow, clearly enunciated everyday modern Japanese with long emotional pauses. That clarity makes it a comfortable live-action entry point for B1 learners with graded subtitles.
Key takeaways
- First Love is a B1-level pick for Japanese, best suited to intermediate learners.
- A gentle live-action romance with slow, clearly enunciated everyday Japanese.
- It runs 1 season, 9 episodes, so its vocabulary recurs enough that finishing it builds real Japanese listening.
- Against the 8 other Japanese titles in our difficulty index, it is easier than 4 of them.
- Expect everyday Japanese such as 初恋 and 気持ち.
- Watch it with Japanese subtitles rather than your own language, which the research links to the biggest listening gain.
- Difficulty
- B1 (moderate)
- Best for
- intermediate learners
- Format
- TV series
- Length
- 1 season, 9 episodes
- Original audio
- Japanese
- Genre
- romance, drama
- Platform
- Netflix
- Relative difficulty
- Easier than 4 of 8 other Japanese titles we rate
- In our index
- 1 of 9 Japanese titles
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Japanese words you'll hear in First Love
- 初恋
- first love (hatsukoi)
- 気持ち
- feeling, feelings (kimochi)
- 思い出
- memory (omoide)
- 好き
- to like, fond of (suki)
- 仕事
- work, job (shigoto)
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Frequently asked questions
- Is First Love good for learning Japanese?
- Yes, at B1. The live-action romance is slow and clearly enunciated with everyday modern speech, which makes it an approachable watch with graded subtitles.