Atesoe's Compiled Resources

This is a list of resources I've found helpful to me while learning Japanese. (If you're a beginner, I recommend you start with hiragana and the Memrise course in the list below.)

Essential tools:

• Anki: Spaced repetition flashcards
• Jisho: The best online dictionary
• Yomichan: Handy application that can be integrated with Anki

Kana

• Kana Pro: A place to quiz yourself about Hiragana or Katakana
• Kana Shooter: Empompom's Kana Shooter game to help you quiz in a fun way

Hiragana:

• Anki Deck for Hiragana: With stroke diagrams and audio
• Video to help you write Hiragana
• Song to help you remember Hiragana
• Tofugu Guide to Hiragana: Includes mnemonics and everything you should need to know about Hiragana

Katakana:

• Anki Deck for Katakana: With stroke diagrams and audio
• Tofugu Guide to Katakana: Includes mnemonics and everything you should need to know about Katakana

Kanji:

• Pass JLPT N5 from AnkiWeb: N5 Kanji deck for Anki
• Pass JLPT N4 from AnkiWeb: N4 Kanji deck for Anki
• Pass JLPT N3 from AnkiWeb: N3 Kanji deck for Anki
• How to learn Kanji: Includes different opinions on how to learn Kanji
• The Kanji Map: A website to visually show you the connections between different Kanji

Vocabulary:

• 1000 Most Common Japanese Words (Memrise): Good if you're just getting started, no kanji
• Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese Vocabulary: Essential deck, everything is voiced
• Nayr's Core 5k: Full of very natural sentences, everything voiced

Grammar:

• Tae Kim's Grammar Guide: Your guide to Japanese grammar, filled with lots of information!
• Bunpro: A nice way to get grammar spoon-fed to you, although you do have to pay a little bit for it!

Listening:

• Supernative: A fun way to practice listening comphrehension
• My Kikitori: Listening comprehension with quizzes, for beginner and low intermediate levels
• Erin's Challenge!: A really fun show to help improve your listening, although it does require flash player
• Nihongo con Teppei: Easy: Japanese podcast for beginners
• Nihongo con Teppei: Hard: Japanese podcast for intermediate and up
• JLPT Stories: Stories for all JLPT levels, has scripts and translations too
• Bilingual News: News podcast that is both in English and Japanese
• Super Simple Japanese (YouTube): A great channel full of Japanese children's songs to help improve your listening
• 日本語の森 (YouTube): Great educational Japanese channel, from JLPT N5 to N1
• Sambon Juku (YouTube): A channel that talks about learning Japanese, in Japanese
• Yusuke: A channel about daily life in Japan, with subtitles
• FermiLab: A channel with Japanese comics, everything is voiced and has captions, for advanced learners

Reading:

• Free Bilingual Books: Has a few books that you can read in Japanese and English, side by side
• Satori Reader: A site full of curated content to help you read, most things are locked behind a paywall though

Onomatopoeia:

• Nihongoresources: Raw text file full of Japanese onomatopoeia
• Sura Sura: A Japanese website full of onomatopoeia and images to help you understand their meaning

Other tools and resources:

• DeepL: A better alternative for Google Translate
• KanjiTomo: OCR tool to help you read manga or visual novels
• Clozemaster: Interesting method to learn common phrases
• Tagaini Jisho: Offline dictionary with extra tools
• Lingodeer: A better alternative for Duolingo
• Steven Kraft's Japanese Projects: Verb conjugation practice
• Japanese Verbs: More verb conjugation practice
• Guide to Japanese: Comprehensive guide for learning Japanese
• Marshall's Blog: Has a lot of quizzes and resources
• Kanji Flashcards Online: Nothing too fancy, give it a try for fun
• Japanese Level UP: Great resource to figure out what kind of material to read or watch based on your level
• Deep-JP: Unique Japan news, has both English and Japanese, works in a similar fashion to NHK Easy News

英語のコース:

• Anki: 不可欠なアプリ
• Ankiのデック: 単語のために