Post by Crimson Amarone on Aug 25, 2014 3:41:12 GMT
I'm starting to compile my list of Japanese resources. Please check back later for more links and descriptions If any of you have some resources of your own—textbooks, apps, dictionaries, websites, videos, books, etc—that you want to share in the meantime, please do!
Dictionaries
EDICT2
EDICT is a Japanese-English Dictionary file. This file can be used with many different dictionary softwares for different devices.
Mac: www.jedict.com/
JEDICT 4 (for Mac)
JEDict 4 is multilingual dictionary capable to search any plain text filesJEDict has internal text editor, multilingual user dictionary, handwritten kanji recognition, JLPT list viewer and web browser with contextual word translation.
jisho.org
Denshi Jisho is an easy-to-use and powerful online Japanese dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji and example sentences by searching in many ways. The dictionaries are also interlinked so that you can check what the kanji in a word mean individually or what context a word can be used in. You can also look up kanji by the parts they contain. The data is publicly available and comes from the excellent WWWJDIC project.
Rikaichan/Rikaikun
Internet browser add-on/pop-up dictionary. see Browser Add-ons
TanoshiiJapanese.com
see websites
Study Books & Textbooks
Heisig's Rembembering the Kanji (aka RtK)
Kanji Writing & Recognition
RTK 1 6th Edition Sample PDF
Remembering the Kanji is a series of three volumes by James Heisig, intended to teach the 3007 most frequent Kanji to students of the Japanese language. The series is available in English, Spanish and German.
Genki I & II Textbooks
Basic–Intermediate Japanese: Grammar, Vocab, Kana/Kanji, Reading/Writing, etc
GENKI is a highly acclaimed series of integrated resources for learning elementary Japanese through a well-balanced approach to all four language skill areas—speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Used in many Japanese language courses around the world.
Japanese Kanji & Kana by Wolfgang Hadamitzky
"Japanese Kanji & Kana: A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System" by Wolfgang Hadamitzky and Mark Spahn is a must-have resource for anyone learning Japanese, because it is so versatile: get a detailed explanation of the Japanese writing system, look up Kanji through a number of indexes, and learn Kanji in a logical order.
Japanese From Zero!
A textbook series from the writer of YesJapan.com/Japanese From Zero website. In Book 1 of the Japanese From Zero! series, readers are taught new grammar concepts, over 800 new words and expressions, and also learn the Hiragana writing system. see YesJapan.com/Japanese from Zero under Websites
Websites
Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar
Basic–slightly Advanced Japanese: Grammar, Vocab, Kanji, Reading/Writing, etc
“Tae Kim’s Guide To Japanese” is one of the greatest Japanese grammar resources on the web. It’s 100% free, translated into a bunch of languages, and full of information on Japanese grammar.
YesJapan.com/Japanese From Zero!
Basic–? Japanese: Grammar, Vocab, Kanji, Reading/Writing, etc
YesJapan (or its new revamped name Japanese From Zero), one of the oldest Japanese learning sites on the internet, is full of lessons, games, a forum, and many videos toward helping people learn Japanese.
lang-8.com
Various levels of Reading & Writing Comprehension
Lang-8 is a language exchange social networking website geared towards language learners. Users are able to post in the language(s) they are learning and that post will appear to native speakers of that language for correction. Users are limited to two learning languages. Users can also correct posts written in their native language.
jisho.org
see Dictionaries
TanoshiiJapanese.com
Basic–? Japanese: Grammar, Vocab, Kanji, Reading/Writing, etc
This site is dedicated to making the learning of the Japanese language a fun and enjoyable experience for you. You will find here various games and lessons which will help you in the four key areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking Japanese. (I've used this site mostly for their dictionary.)
kanji.koohii.com (aka Reviewing the Kanji)
Kanji study supplement
A site with a great community forum that is made to be a companion to Heisig's RTK. see Heisig's Remembering the Kanji in Study Books & Textbooks
Forvo.com
Pronunciation
Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. Most of the words you are looking for already have pronunciations for them, just paste or type the word into the searchbox.
Miscellaneous Websites
These websites may or may not be particularly useful to your Japanese study, but the are nice too check out and keep bookmarked.
www.kansaiben.com/
Fun site if you're interested in picking up some Kansai-ben dialect.
kanjidamage.com
Kanji
A very alternative method of studying kanji. It's fun to read at first but it probably isn't the best method for everyone.
www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/
Verb conjugation
This is handy if you're having trouble with quickly conjugating verbs. Useful for both beginners and even intermediate learners for tricky verb forms.
Browser Add-ons
Rikaichan(Firefox)/Rikaikun (Google Chrome)
Dictionary
An internet browser add-on that's a Japanese to English/German/French/Russian dictionary. Just hover the mouse on top of a word, and a popup appears. Automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives. Detailed kanji view. Rikaikun is the Chrome port of the app.
Desktop/Iphone/Ipad apps
KanjiTomo
Kanji lookup
KanjiTomo is a program for identifying Japanese characters from image files. Kanji lookup is done by pointing the mouse to any image on screen (either from a file, program or web page). Dictionary lookup is done at the same time. Horizontal and vertical text are both supported.
Anki (SRS Flashcard App)
Anki
Anki is a spaced repetition flashcard program. The software is similar to SuperMemo, a commercial product for the same purpose, and Mnemosyne, another free flashcard program. Anki is the Japanese word for memorization.
Desktop: Free • Android: Free • Iphone/Ipad: $24.99
Yomichan
Vocab
Yomichan is a Rikaichan-like application for reading Japanese books in text file format and vocab/sentence mining the hell out of them. When you encounter new words Yomichan can add them to your Anki deck with one click.
Anki Decks
Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar
Grammar supplement
Yomichan is a Rikaichan-like application for reading Japanese books in text file format and vocab/sentence mining the hell out of them. When you encounter new words Yomichan can add them to your Anki deck with one click.
Core 2k/6k/10k Japanese Vocabulary
Vocab supplement
There are a bunch of different decks for the Core sets. These decks were based off of deck provided on Smart.fm and have been optimized and customized by anki deck builders. These decks usually contain sentences with Kanji and kana and English translations, images, and audio. I personally don't use audio or images because I usually find them unnecessary and distracting and the files are too large for my phone app.
The one I'm using is
Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese Vocabulary
Another I found that looks promising, but I haven't looked at yet is:
Core 2k/6k/10K Further Optimized PIC/SOUND/PITCH ACCENT v23
Dictionaries
EDICT2
EDICT is a Japanese-English Dictionary file. This file can be used with many different dictionary softwares for different devices.
Mac: www.jedict.com/
JEDICT 4 (for Mac)
JEDict 4 is multilingual dictionary capable to search any plain text filesJEDict has internal text editor, multilingual user dictionary, handwritten kanji recognition, JLPT list viewer and web browser with contextual word translation.
jisho.org
Denshi Jisho is an easy-to-use and powerful online Japanese dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji and example sentences by searching in many ways. The dictionaries are also interlinked so that you can check what the kanji in a word mean individually or what context a word can be used in. You can also look up kanji by the parts they contain. The data is publicly available and comes from the excellent WWWJDIC project.
Rikaichan/Rikaikun
Internet browser add-on/pop-up dictionary. see Browser Add-ons
TanoshiiJapanese.com
see websites
Study Books & Textbooks
Heisig's Rembembering the Kanji (aka RtK)
Kanji Writing & Recognition
RTK 1 6th Edition Sample PDF
Remembering the Kanji is a series of three volumes by James Heisig, intended to teach the 3007 most frequent Kanji to students of the Japanese language. The series is available in English, Spanish and German.
Genki I & II Textbooks
Basic–Intermediate Japanese: Grammar, Vocab, Kana/Kanji, Reading/Writing, etc
GENKI is a highly acclaimed series of integrated resources for learning elementary Japanese through a well-balanced approach to all four language skill areas—speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Used in many Japanese language courses around the world.
Japanese Kanji & Kana by Wolfgang Hadamitzky
"Japanese Kanji & Kana: A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System" by Wolfgang Hadamitzky and Mark Spahn is a must-have resource for anyone learning Japanese, because it is so versatile: get a detailed explanation of the Japanese writing system, look up Kanji through a number of indexes, and learn Kanji in a logical order.
Japanese From Zero!
A textbook series from the writer of YesJapan.com/Japanese From Zero website. In Book 1 of the Japanese From Zero! series, readers are taught new grammar concepts, over 800 new words and expressions, and also learn the Hiragana writing system. see YesJapan.com/Japanese from Zero under Websites
Websites
Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar
Basic–slightly Advanced Japanese: Grammar, Vocab, Kanji, Reading/Writing, etc
“Tae Kim’s Guide To Japanese” is one of the greatest Japanese grammar resources on the web. It’s 100% free, translated into a bunch of languages, and full of information on Japanese grammar.
YesJapan.com/Japanese From Zero!
Basic–? Japanese: Grammar, Vocab, Kanji, Reading/Writing, etc
YesJapan (or its new revamped name Japanese From Zero), one of the oldest Japanese learning sites on the internet, is full of lessons, games, a forum, and many videos toward helping people learn Japanese.
lang-8.com
Various levels of Reading & Writing Comprehension
Lang-8 is a language exchange social networking website geared towards language learners. Users are able to post in the language(s) they are learning and that post will appear to native speakers of that language for correction. Users are limited to two learning languages. Users can also correct posts written in their native language.
jisho.org
see Dictionaries
TanoshiiJapanese.com
Basic–? Japanese: Grammar, Vocab, Kanji, Reading/Writing, etc
This site is dedicated to making the learning of the Japanese language a fun and enjoyable experience for you. You will find here various games and lessons which will help you in the four key areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking Japanese. (I've used this site mostly for their dictionary.)
kanji.koohii.com (aka Reviewing the Kanji)
Kanji study supplement
A site with a great community forum that is made to be a companion to Heisig's RTK. see Heisig's Remembering the Kanji in Study Books & Textbooks
Forvo.com
Pronunciation
Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. Most of the words you are looking for already have pronunciations for them, just paste or type the word into the searchbox.
Miscellaneous Websites
These websites may or may not be particularly useful to your Japanese study, but the are nice too check out and keep bookmarked.
www.kansaiben.com/
Fun site if you're interested in picking up some Kansai-ben dialect.
kanjidamage.com
Kanji
A very alternative method of studying kanji. It's fun to read at first but it probably isn't the best method for everyone.
www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/
Verb conjugation
This is handy if you're having trouble with quickly conjugating verbs. Useful for both beginners and even intermediate learners for tricky verb forms.
Browser Add-ons
Rikaichan(Firefox)/Rikaikun (Google Chrome)
Dictionary
An internet browser add-on that's a Japanese to English/German/French/Russian dictionary. Just hover the mouse on top of a word, and a popup appears. Automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives. Detailed kanji view. Rikaikun is the Chrome port of the app.
Desktop/Iphone/Ipad apps
KanjiTomo
Kanji lookup
KanjiTomo is a program for identifying Japanese characters from image files. Kanji lookup is done by pointing the mouse to any image on screen (either from a file, program or web page). Dictionary lookup is done at the same time. Horizontal and vertical text are both supported.
Anki (SRS Flashcard App)
Anki
Anki is a spaced repetition flashcard program. The software is similar to SuperMemo, a commercial product for the same purpose, and Mnemosyne, another free flashcard program. Anki is the Japanese word for memorization.
Desktop: Free • Android: Free • Iphone/Ipad: $24.99
Yomichan
Vocab
Yomichan is a Rikaichan-like application for reading Japanese books in text file format and vocab/sentence mining the hell out of them. When you encounter new words Yomichan can add them to your Anki deck with one click.
Anki Decks
Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar
Grammar supplement
Yomichan is a Rikaichan-like application for reading Japanese books in text file format and vocab/sentence mining the hell out of them. When you encounter new words Yomichan can add them to your Anki deck with one click.
Core 2k/6k/10k Japanese Vocabulary
Vocab supplement
There are a bunch of different decks for the Core sets. These decks were based off of deck provided on Smart.fm and have been optimized and customized by anki deck builders. These decks usually contain sentences with Kanji and kana and English translations, images, and audio. I personally don't use audio or images because I usually find them unnecessary and distracting and the files are too large for my phone app.
The one I'm using is
Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese Vocabulary
Another I found that looks promising, but I haven't looked at yet is:
Core 2k/6k/10K Further Optimized PIC/SOUND/PITCH ACCENT v23