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Awesome Japanese Learning Resources

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Japanese Learning Resources

A curated list of resources for learning Japanese, covering grammar, vocabulary, and language acquisition tools.

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149 links in 42 sections, with live GitHub stats.activeno commit in 2y

Beginner Guide

  • Starter's Guide

    From /r/learnjapanese subreddit

  • DJT guide

    A well-written guide

  • Japanese Walkthrough

    A visual learning guide

  • Grammar Guide to Japanese

    By Tae Kim (there also exists the "Complete Guide to Japanese" by Tae Kim, this is a work in progress/not yet complete)

  • The Moe Way

    A Japanese guide outlining the fundamentals as well as guides on setting up various language acquisition software tools such as visual novel text hooks

Textbook / Genki

Textbook / Genki / Amazon

Textbook / Genki / Anki Deck

  • Genki 1 & 2

    ALL the vocab from Genki 1 & 2 and more. Still updating

Textbook / Genki

Textbook / Tobira

  • Official

    Unlock multimedia content and Anki deck with special code in the textbook

Textbook / Tobira / Amazon

Textbook / Minna no Nihongo

Textbook / Minna no Nihongo / Amazon

Hiragana and Katakana / Hiragana

Hiragana and Katakana / Katakana

Hiragana and Katakana / App

  • Hiragana and Katakana

    iOS Hiragana and Katakana learning app

  • Kakugo

    Android hiragana, katakana and kanji learning app

  • Kanji Dojo

    Android application for practicing writing Japanese characters

Hiragana and Katakana / Anki Deck

Kanji

Kanji / Anki Deck

Kanji

  • Kanji alive

    Kanji study tool created by the University of Chicago

  • Kanjipedia

    Kanji search site operated by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation.🇯🇵

  • Kakijun

    Help you find the stroke order of a kanji.🇯🇵

  • Kanji Explorer

    Navigate kanji using radicals

Vocabulary

  • Anki

    Popular flashcard based software

Vocabulary / Anki

Vocabulary

  • Memrise

    Popular online/app flashcard platform

  • jpdb

    ) - jpdb is a powerful Japanese dictionary and all-in-one learning system for kanji and vocabulary

  • japanese number converter

    japanese number converter (Kanji - Hiragana - Romanji)

  • SakeSaySo

    A Japanese-English dictionary app featuring SRS flashcards, daily news translations for sentence-based learning, vocabulary inspection, and example sentences. Supports offline use

Grammar

  • Japanese Grammar Guide

    By Tae Kim. A complete guide to Japanese grammar from knowing nothing to advanced topics

Grammar / Japanese Grammar Guide

Grammar

  • Imabi

    A grammar website like Tae Kim, but made by a linguist. Has many great, in-depth explanations, but some may find them almost too in-depth

  • Visualize Japanese Grammar

    Links to 66 animations of various grammatical structures in Japanese and 12 downloadable appendices

  • JGram

    The Japanese Grammar Database

  • Maggie Sensei

    Conversational Grammar

Grammar / Amazon

Grammar

  • Dictionary of Japanese Grammar

    The DoJG deck allows you to review the contents of the Dictionary of Japanese Grammar through Anki

  • Bunpro

    Grammar learning web app using SRS

  • Sakubi

    Basic grammar primer that doesn't try to drill you

Reading

  • NHK Easy News

    News for elementary, middle school, and foreigners with audio and video

  • 読み物いっぱい

    Reading materials for elementary learners

  • Tadoku

    Illustrated books for elementary learners. Some books require purchase

  • 青空文庫

    A Japanese digital library encompasses several thousands of works of Japanese-language fiction and non-fiction

  • Japanese Folktales

    Japanese folktales with drawings and audio

  • Hukumusume Fairy Tale Collection

    A website where you can read and hear traditional folk tales, legends and fairy tales - from Japan and all around the world - read aloud for you in Japanese

  • Kyoko Shinbun

    Fake Japanese News(similar to The Onion), podcast available

  • 用例.jp

    Search engine for Japanese sample sentences

  • Japanese in Anime & Manga

    Learn Japanese from anime and manga

  • Satori Reader

    Japanese reading and listening practice, first two chapters of each article is free

  • Keio University Reading Materials Bank

    The site is mostly in Japanese, but follow the 1-stars for the easiest reading materials. It's great because there is an English glossary integrated into the articles

  • Japanese IO

    Learn Japanese through fun and easy reading practice

  • PressReader

    This website/app offers digital daily newspaper and other Japanese language publications for free with many American libraries, please check local library to see whether it is available. See . Otherwise paid plan available

  • ImaWakatta

    You can start reading real Japanese today, regardless of your level. ImaWakatta has stories with audio that include native speakers and professional voice overs. Every story has dynamic highlighting so you can follow the audio line by line. Includes 4 free stories

  • LearnNatively

    The Natively community grades each book, movie or TV show to an approximate language proficiency level. This helps you find content that's appropriate for you

Listening

  • SuperNative

    Trains you to hear, read, and speak Japanese using over 10,000 bite-sized clips from TV and movies. Only Chrome browser supports voice recognition practice

  • Delvin

    Practice Japanese listening and reading with authentic Japanese video

  • mykikitori

    Practice your Japanese learning skill

  • Tsunahiro

    Website for Foreign Nationals as Residents to Learn Japanese Language

Listening / Podcast

  • Podcast Ranking

    Japanese Podcast ranking website, discover Japanese language podcasts

  • Learn Japanese Pod

    Japanese language learning podcast

  • JapanesePod101

    Japanese language learning podcast with multiple levels and web platform

  • News in Slow Japanese

    Listen to Japanese News in slow speed

  • NHK News Podcast

    Three podcasts available: Japanese news , English news, and Easy Japanese

  • Bilingual News

    Bilingual English and Japanese news podcast. Casual and unedited colloquial language learning experience through a weekly review of relevant news topics

  • Nihongo con Teppei

    Japanese podcast for beginners

Speaking

Community

Community / Discord

Community

Video / YouTube

Video / YouTube / Dogen

  • Dogen's Patreon Lessons

    A course that covers many different aspects of Japanese phonetics, like pitch accent and vowel placement

Video / YouTube

Video / News

Video / Stream

  • QVC Japan

    QVC Japan Shopping Channel Live stream

  • Keylabo

    Free Japanese TV Live stream listing. Some channels may not work, and 3rd party streaming service

  • Abema TV

    Live Japanese TV stream

  • GYAO!

    Japanese TV programs on demand

  • FRESH!

    Japanese streamer platform

  • NicoNico

    Japanese streamer platform

  • DaiWEEB

    Japanese anime with both Japanese and English subtitles

Video / Players

  • Memento

    An mpv-based video player for studying Japanese

  • animebook

    In-browser video player for learning Japanese with subtitles

  • asbplayer

    Browser-based media player and Chrome extension for subtitle sentence mining

  • miteiru

    Miteiru is an open source Electron video player to learn Japanese and other languages 👴

Video / Subtitles

  • kitsunekko

    Repository of Japanese subtitles for many series

Dictionary

  • Jisho

    Gold standard online Japanese dictionary platform

  • Jotoba

    Great alternative to jisho.org with improved radical search and more

  • Tangorin Japanese Dictionary

    Tangorin is an online Japanese-English dictionary with example sentences and many features to help you learn the Japanese language

  • Weblio

    Japan popular dictionary website without en<->jp, jp<->jp, and more

  • Google Translate

    Supports voice and image translation, mobile app supports offline translation

  • Goo 辞書 / Goo Dictionary

    Online Japanese dictionry

  • Houhou

    The dictionary doubles as a learning tool

  • Takoboto

    Android Japanese dictionary app, also has web and computer based version

  • imiwa?

    iOS Japanese dictionary app

  • Tagaini Jisho

    Open-source Japanese dictionary and kanji lookup tool for Windows, MacOS X and Linux

  • Jiten

    Android Japanese dictionary and kanji lookup app, also has web version

  • Japanese

    Dictionary, stroke order and flashcards for iOS

  • Midori (Japanese Dictionary)

    Dictionary, stroke order and flashcards for iOS

Software / Computer

Software / Browser Extension / Firefox

  • Rikaichamp

    Japanese to English/German/French/Russian dictionary. Just hover the mouse on top of a word, and a popup appears. This add-on is more compatible with latest Firefox version and comes with dictionaries files

Software / Browser Extension / Chrome

  • Yomitan

    Yomitan turns your browser into a tool for building Japanese language literacy by helping you to decipher texts which would be otherwise too difficult to tackle

  • rikaigu

    Rikaikun enhanced. Translate Japanese by hovering over words

  • IPA furigana

    Looks up the readings for kanji words and inserts them as Furigana

  • ReadNihon

    ReadNihon generates website Furigana by JLPT level. It also allows you to save known words that are ignored from Furigana conversion

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