Awesome-Japanese

Japanese Learning Resources

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

Awesome Japanese Learning Resources

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Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / Textbook / Genki
Official

Awesome Japanese / Textbook / Genki / Amazon
Genki 1 Textbook |
Genki 2 Textbook |
Genki Answer Key

Awesome Japanese / Textbook / Genki / Anki Deck
Genki 1 & 2 ALL the vocab from Genki 1 & 2 and more. Still updating

Awesome Japanese / Textbook / Genki
Unofficial Study tool

Awesome Japanese / Textbook / Tobira
Official Unlock multimedia content and Anki deck with special code in the textbook

Awesome Japanese / Textbook / Tobira / Amazon
Tobira Textbook
Tobira: Power Up Your Kanji With it, students can study a total of 800 kanji-the 297 kanji generally introduced in beginning-level textbooks and an additional 503 kanji introduced in Tobira
Tobira: Grammar Power Japanese grammar skill build up book

Awesome Japanese / Textbook / Minna no Nihongo
Official

Awesome Japanese / Textbook / Minna no Nihongo / Amazon
Minna no Nihongo II |

Awesome Japanese / Hiragana and Katakana / Hiragana
Tofugu for Hiragana Hiragana lesson
Learn Hiragana in 1 Hour Hiragana video lesson
Hiragana Practice Sheet Print and practice
Listening Game for Hiragana Flash based Hiragana game

Awesome Japanese / Hiragana and Katakana / Katakana
Tofugu for Katakana Katakana lesson
Learn Katakana in 1 Hour Katakana video lesson
Listening Game for Katakana Flash based Katakana game
Katakana Practice Sheet Print and practice

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / Hiragana and Katakana / Anki Deck
Hiragana + Katakana w/ Audio & Stroke Order -

Awesome Japanese / Kanji
Hacking Kanji Guide: 2,200 Kanji in 97 Days
Kanji Koohii Help you complete the kanji learning method called Remembering the Kanji
Kanji Damage A Kanji learning method
Wanikani Kanji learning platform

Awesome Japanese / Kanji / Anki Deck
DJT Anki Guide A guide for downloading/customizing Anki with a link to the popular 6k/2k deck
Kodansha kanji learner's course with vocabulary This deck is meant to be used together with the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course book (KLC)
Official KanjiDamage deck This is the ultimate deck to learn Kanji with the KanjiDamage method
All in One Kanji Deck (Heisig's RTK Order, 6th ed.) Based on Heisig's Remember the Kanji 6th ed. book

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / Vocabulary
Anki Popular flashcard based software

Awesome Japanese / Vocabulary / Anki
Anki User Manual
How to use Anki to Learn Japanese Anki video tutorial
Nayr's Core 5000 Designed around an i+1 approach where learners are exposed to more than they know
Japanese Core 2000/6000 A | - Popular Anki Japanese Deck Core 2k/6k
Japanese 10K WK Breakdown Core 10K vocabularies, broken down by WaniKani kanji

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / Grammar
Japanese Grammar Guide By Tae Kim. A complete guide to Japanese grammar from knowing nothing to advanced topics

Awesome Japanese / Grammar / Japanese Grammar Guide
Supplement Grammar List by Araia to the Japanese Grammar Guide. Targeted towards intermediate and advanced learners

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / Grammar / Amazon
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar Popular Japanese grammar dictionary series
A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar -
A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar -

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / Speaking
Online Japanese Accent Dictionary Learn the correct accent to properly pronounce Japanese words. Lists of words are categorized by textbook

Awesome Japanese / Community
/r/learnjapanese Learn Japanese subreddit
Kanji Koohii Forum Forum which covers all aspects of Japanese learning
Lang-8 A language learning platform where native speakers correct what you write
Discord Popular chatroom platform

Awesome Japanese / Community / Discord
English-Japanese Language Exchange Highly active English/Japanese discord chat server
日本語と英語 Another popular English/Japanese discord chat server
Reddit Masterlist A list on Reddit of all the language Discord servers. Scroll down to the East Asian Languages section for Japanese servers
TheMoeWay Highly active discord chat server for an immersion Japanese learner with immersion logs

Awesome Japanese / Community
HelloTalk Popular language exchange app

Awesome Japanese / Video / YouTube
Nihongo no Mori JLPT test-oriented YouTube channel
Dogen Japanese phonetic lessons YouTube channel

Awesome Japanese / Video / YouTube / Dogen
Dogen's Patreon Lessons A course that covers many different aspects of Japanese phonetics, like pitch accent and vowel placement

Awesome Japanese / Video / YouTube
Game Grammar Teach you Japanese by playing video games YouTube channel
JapanesePod101 Popular Japanese podcast's YouTube channel
Japanese Ammo with Misa Grammar & vocabulary lessons YouTube channel
Japanese from scratch Different "organic" approach to learning Japanese
Comprehensible Japanese YouTube channel with great playlists for complete beginner

Awesome Japanese / Video / News
BBC News in Japanese BBC News in Japanese language YouTube channel
Asahi News Asahi News YouTube channel
Asahi News Live 24/7 Asahi News Live YouTube stream
Fuji News Network FNN live and vod
News24 News24 Channel live and vod
Weather News Live 24/7 Japanese Weather Channel Live stream
NIKKEI News NIKKEI News Youtube channel
Yomiuri News Yomiuri News Youtube channel

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / Video / Players
Memento 490 24 days ago An mpv-based video player for studying Japanese
animebook 271 5 months ago In-browser video player for learning Japanese with subtitles
asbplayer Browser-based media player and Chrome extension for subtitle sentence mining
miteiru 83 4 days ago Miteiru is an open source Electron video player to learn Japanese and other languages 👴

Awesome Japanese / Video / Subtitles
kitsunekko Repository of Japanese subtitles for many series

Awesome Japanese / 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
語源由来辞典 / Gogen Yurai jiten Etymology of Japanese
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

Awesome Japanese / Software / Computer
Human Japanese Popular Japanese learning program
Google Japanese Input Google Japanese Input, available on Windows, Mac, and Android
How to Install Japanese Keyboard on Everything Guide by Tofugu

Awesome Japanese / 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

Awesome Japanese / 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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