Excluding this website, what other resources do you guys use to further your learning? (curiosity… - Feed Post by rupertherro
Excluding this website, what other resources do you guys use to further your learning? (curiosity got the better of me).
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I have used this site - http://www.tofugu.com/guides/learn-hiragana/
I've used Memrise, which is really good for learning any language. I've also read some of Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar.
I like wanikani.com for Kanji and vocabulary, and LiveMocha for their peer reviewed speech feature (and writing review).- Oh and jisho.org is fantastic.
Kanji:
・Slime Forest Adventure (kanji learning game for Windows, Linux, Mac) - http://lrnj.com
Grammar - Verb conjugation simplified:
・Tim Sensei's Corner - http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~tmath/language/jpverbs/
Grammar - General:
・Nihongo Resources - http://www.nihongoresources.com
・Kim Allen's Japanese for the Western Brain - http://kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net/Japanese/
・kWhazit Oddities - http://kwhazit.ucoz.net/ranma/
・Maggie Sensei - http://maggiesensei.com
・Visualizing Japanese Grammar - http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/vjg/vjghomepage/vjghome.htm
Grammar - Advanced:
・IMABI - http://www.imabi.net
・Japanese Language Stack Exchange - http://japanese.stackexchange.com
Sentence composition learning/practice:
・Duolingo (set the language you know to 日本語 then pick the "English" course) - http://www.duolingo.com
Classical Japanese:
・Anthony J. Byrant - http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/bungo/bungo.html
・Kafka-fuura - http://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/classical-japanese/
Chinese character etymology:
・Kanji Networks - http://www.kanjinetworks.com
・Richard Sears - http://www.chineseetymology.org
・Silk Story - http://silkstory.net/index_hanzi.html
Wiki (these particular pages are VERY good):
・http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_verb_conjugation
・http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_grammar
・http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_particles
・http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language
・http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji
・http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_Japanese_kanji_radicals
・http://lingwiki.com/index.php?title=On_vs._Kun_readings
Other awesome sites:
・Erin's Challenge - http://www.erin.ne.jp/en/
・JOSHU (University of Texas) - http://www.laits.utexas.edu/japanese/joshu/grammar.php
Really interesting old English books on Japanese grammar which are now out of copyright and have been converted to eBooks, available completely free to read or download:
・Internet Archive library -
http://archive.org/details/texts?and%5B%5D=languageSorter%3A%22english%22&and%5B%5D=Japanese+grammar
Reading practice (childrens stories and Japanese folktales):
・Hukusume Fairy Tale Collection - http://hukumusume.com/douwa/
・Old Stories of Japan - http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Gaien/7211/
Offline dictionaries and related tools:
・Tagaini Jisho - http://www.tagaini.net
・JiShop Kanji Dictionary (advanced version) - http://www.jishop.com/features.html
...I could easily make this list 10 times as long, but I think I've listed far too much already. Duolingo is the one I am most focussed on at this current point in time and I highly recommend trying it out! ^^
ありがとうみんな。
Japanese for Everyone- Susumu Nagara
jisho.org -is bae
KanjiQ- app on my phone
Human Japanese (I have it on my pc and tablet currently) and Japanese Hiragana & Katakana for Beginners by Timothy G. Stout
Memrise, JA Sensei, Genki books, Maggie-sensei, and a dictionary while watching Japanese media :)
@Mog I would put imabi in the general section rather than advanced because it's a perfect reference site especially when you're starting out. Same with stack exchange since just searching for explanations on both are great for grammar IMO.- @freakymrq, Definitely. I wanted to highlight it as a good place to go if you've finished the basic sites and need of somewhere to study further, and also for how it explains things in much more depth than anywhere else. It belonged in both those sections. It also belonged in the Classical Japanese section, but then the Ranma site I listed also dabbles in Classical. I had to avoid listing anything twice though. Imabi is easily my favourite overall Japanese grammar resource. ^^
