Since we can now have a topic that may, if popular enough, hang around the easily readable area, I… - Feed Post by Arachkid
Since we can now have a topic that may, if popular enough, hang around the easily readable area, I thought maybe it would be nice to make a list of resources you use for working on your Japanese around the web. Hopefully this is popular and will hang around the top!
Memrise (memrise.com) - really just a good memorization website, they have tons of Japanese specific (culture AND language) courses, though. If you want to learn the prefecture locations, or prefecture capitals, or prefecture flags (yay for useless information!), there are courses on them.
Duolingo (duolingo.com) - Currently it does not have a course for learning Japanese from English, but it does have one for learning English as a Japanese speaker, and this can still help those learning Japanese. You may want to turn off the audio questions and questions where you are meant to test your English speech.
Renshuu (renshuu.org) - This is a great website for studying kanji specifically (you can study stroke counts, on or kun yomi, and what kanji parts make up the kanji), and also has a great grammar library, which has rivaled some of the textbooks I have for learning grammar! Also has games like hiragana/kanji crosswords, shiritori, haiku writing, etc. And you can print blank kanji practice sheets at home, which would undoubtedly be useful for those outside of Japan (if you are a paying member, you can even choose kanji to put on the sheets, to trace before you draw freehand).
Google Translate (translate.google.com) - It is a horrible tool, as it stands - and hopefully in the future (I'd like to do translation for the forseeable future, thank you very much, even into retirement), but it has a section where you can help improve Google Translate by either translating things from one language to another or confirming that other users' translations are correct or incorrect. I doubt it will ever be able to handle anything beyond direct translations, in other words, it will never be able to handle implied meanings or specific cultural sayings. But, it's good for practice.
Feel free to post any of your frequently used sites!
Memrise (memrise.com) - really just a good memorization website, they have tons of Japanese specific (culture AND language) courses, though. If you want to learn the prefecture locations, or prefecture capitals, or prefecture flags (yay for useless information!), there are courses on them.
Duolingo (duolingo.com) - Currently it does not have a course for learning Japanese from English, but it does have one for learning English as a Japanese speaker, and this can still help those learning Japanese. You may want to turn off the audio questions and questions where you are meant to test your English speech.
Renshuu (renshuu.org) - This is a great website for studying kanji specifically (you can study stroke counts, on or kun yomi, and what kanji parts make up the kanji), and also has a great grammar library, which has rivaled some of the textbooks I have for learning grammar! Also has games like hiragana/kanji crosswords, shiritori, haiku writing, etc. And you can print blank kanji practice sheets at home, which would undoubtedly be useful for those outside of Japan (if you are a paying member, you can even choose kanji to put on the sheets, to trace before you draw freehand).
Google Translate (translate.google.com) - It is a horrible tool, as it stands - and hopefully in the future (I'd like to do translation for the forseeable future, thank you very much, even into retirement), but it has a section where you can help improve Google Translate by either translating things from one language to another or confirming that other users' translations are correct or incorrect. I doubt it will ever be able to handle anything beyond direct translations, in other words, it will never be able to handle implied meanings or specific cultural sayings. But, it's good for practice.
Feel free to post any of your frequently used sites!
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Thanks for share the useful message.
Usually I make a library of materials when I am learning something. And I tend to often adapt and change.
AJATT (http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/all-japanese-all-the-time-ajatt-how-to-learn-japanese-on-your-own-having-fun-and-to-fluency) - a lot of tips and resources;
Jisho (jisho.org) - great dictionary;
Draw Kanji (http://kanji.sljfaq.org/) - I use it when it is hard to find a kanji's meaning;
Google.jp (https://www.google.co.jp/webhp?hl=ja) - may sounds silly, but sometimes I try to explore japanese sites, even that I don't understand a thing;
Reddit Japanese TV (https://www.reddit.com/r/JTV) - sometimes I can find good thing here;
Marimoeo (http://marimoeo.seesaa.net/) - japanese podcast;
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/) - to find japanese movies recommendations;
JPCMHD (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuTNcnGVHRlEJ7uq-X8mfTQ) - a channel with japanese commercials.
I didn't mention, but I use this site as well. I am new here but I already love it.
And forgive my English.
