Tutorials & Resources Japanese learning resource

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  1. Shio

    Shio Moderator Staff Member

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    Title is self-explanation, dump your Japanese learning resource and tutorial here + encourage other member to learn language.

    So far, the most complete resource list that I have ever seen is from /a/'s DJT. The list contains katakana, kanji, and grammar learning tool + listening, reading, and reading resources. The one that have been used and liked by nu member are:

    Remembering katakana/hiragana:
    • Realkana
      Online site to remember katakana and hiragana, the number of word tested is adjustable.

      Kanji:
    • anki flashcard
      Offline app, both desktop and mobile version is available. Easy to use with customize-able deck. Creating personal deck according to your textbook/guide is recommended.

      Vocabulary:
    • memrise
      online website focused on memorizing, currently no offline version
    • Kotoba-Chan (android)
      flashcard to memorize vocabulary with sentence example.

      Grammar
    • Tae Kim's Japanese : pdf and website
      A decent grammar guide to Japanese Language.
    • Imabi.net
      Grammar lesson online from basic to Classical Japanese

      Dictionary
    • Jsho
      Mobile dictionary with radical and romanji input.

    Credits: @holyshin and @makenai89.
     
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    Potato its doomed

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    Imabi.net is pretty good for grammar though can be hard for beginners.
     
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    makenai89 The Divine Procrastinator

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    Jsho
    The most awesome Japanese dictionary for beginners IMO. Works very well offline, with bookmark feature so we can bookmark new vocabs we are trying to remember.
     
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    Kyubey 第四ラボメンバー

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    I myself use Kotoba-chan at android for my memorization and japanese for today Published by Gakken CO. LTD., translated/transliterated into my mother language for learning grammar and such.
    For informal language, I guess watching anime without subs?
     
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    makenai89 The Divine Procrastinator

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    Yeah, that works too, at least, lighter than Obenkyo...
     
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    Shio Moderator Staff Member

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    Thanks for this. I usually only use anki in my laptop and got distracted 95% of the time.
    I don't know how I missed this app. Thanks makenai
     
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    makenai89 The Divine Procrastinator

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    You're welcome ;)
    You've also given me new sources.
    This kind of sharing is really good, the more people contribute, the better it is
     
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    Shio Moderator Staff Member

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    It feels kinda wrong to hijack my own thread, but does anyone know good flash card software for chinese character? Something similar to kotoba-chan
     
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    Ldyrdy Snowfallsdown

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    I couldn't find one that is completely focused on chinese.. Since for chinese I mostly used dictionary since I got some basic language understanding..

    The best one I can recommend is memrise but it wasn't that good too but it was sufficient I think for some basic understanding.. Hopes it helps..
     
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    Monkey D Luffy I hope they serve beer in Hell..

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    Thanks for the help
     
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    Thank you.
    I will try it later.
     
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    lygarx Lazy Translator

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    List of JouYou Kanji
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jōyō_kanji
    I find it to be more accurate than any of mecab's dictionaries. I have found that I don't like the way how certain kanji translate into romanji. Sometimes I prefer the On'yomi reading and other times I may prefer the Kon'yomi way to pronounce. And if you are using mecab or jparser, the dictionaries are not that easily changed and nearly impossible to update with ease.
    I would love to incorporate this
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZFnn9B_oxKvqX4P7zAiTEDXUcYQre732AzX714cdImc/edit?usp=sharing
    into a personal mecab dictionary
     
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    Thank you for your recommendation.
     
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    kenneth223 『The Weird One』『User who faps to Drinks』 

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    Kanji Study on google apps helps with Kanji memorization and repetition (this one has legit 5 stars and I'm using it).

    Kanji Senpai helps you on listening and vocab via SRS (spaced repetition system), also contains audio.

    JoyoKanji is a website mainly for essays and reading so if you want to improve on your reading skills, use this (you will have to buy essays in order to read them but the first 2 are given free if you register, don't worry, they are cheap like below $3.00 an essay).

    Satori, another website for the purpose of reading, another way of improving your japanese whether free or monthly/yearly pay.

    Tanos is a site that prepares you for the JLPT test. Can also be used as an aid to your studies. Use this to study for the JLPT test or to better your japanese.

    JapanesePod101 For the fluency and innovative type of people; also has vocab, grammer, reading and listening (I actually tried it and it is good but I only did it for a month).

    By the way, not only can you make your own flashcards in Anki, but you can download decks other users made in the anki forums (just putting this out there for those who wish to find it).

    So, yea, I've been researching which sites are useful for grammer, vocab, listening, writing, and reading and these are what I found.

    If any of you want to REALLY REALLY learn japanese as in wanting to not just read but talk to other japanese people with pure confidence, then please study with ambition, dedication and most importantly... even if you fail, don't give up, keep on going! Because it will only get hard if you think it's hard (well yea the kanji, duh. That's like the #1 thing that prevents people from continuing to learn the language). But, if you have the right resources, I assure you that once you have the kanji down as well as learning the vocab, then you're one step closer towards your goal.

    '20% of the Kanji is 80% of the vocabulary'
     
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    LifeFrog {Frog In a Pond} {L.L Footstool on Strike}

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    https://www.wanikani.com/ - kanji learning site. It is free up to level 3 and the levels after are accessible if you pay a subscription. started by people on the website bellow

    https://www.tofugu.com/ - website/blog about Japanese culture. It also has a lot of review of Japanese language textbooks
     
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    This is really great
     
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    PDF url not working
    can anyone send me another resource ?
     
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    Kim tae guide's to Japanese?
    There's another url in the website, maybe you could check it out.
     
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