Learning Japanese

A Guide to Japan

Japanese Learning Guide

Read introduction to all of them. Choose any one of them. They are all self-sufficient.

• Tofugu Guide to Japanese
• TheMoeWay Guide to Japanese
• Refold Guide to Japanese
• Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese
• r/LearnJapanese Guide to Japanese

Books on Japanese

• Minna No Nihongo
• Genki
• RTK
• An introduction to Japanese: Syntax, Grammar & Language
• Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course
• More Books

Kanji

• KanjiDamage
• WaniKani
• Kanji All in One Heisig RTK + Kondansha KKLC + Vocabulary Ex - Anki Deck
• All in One Kanji Deck - Anki Deck

Media on Japanese

• Anime for Japanese Beginners
• Podcast for Japanese Beginners
• Lazy Fluency - Bilingual Japanese/English Podcast
• JPod 101 - Listening practice

Youtube Channels & Playlist for Japanese

• ToKini Andy
• Japanese Ammo with Misa
• Onomappu
• Namasensei's Japanese Course
• Cure Dolly's Japanese from scratch
• Game Gengo Japanese
• Japanese 101

Apps for Japanese

📱 - iOS version available

💴 - app requires payment

🆓 - free

• Anki Flashcards 🆓💴📱
• Memrise 🆓💴📱
• Japanese Kanji Study 💴
• Satori Reader 💴📱
• Tobo Learn Japanese Vocabulary📱
• Renshuu 📱
• HiNative 💴📱
• Yomikata Z 🆓
• Takaboto Offline Dictionary 🆓
• LingQ 🆓💴📱

Some Other Resources

• Genki Study Resources - A website for practicing the Genki material
• Itazuraneko Kana Drill - A flashcard-based, configurable Hiragana/Katakana drill for improving character recognition accuracy and speed
• Hiragana Reading Practice
• Reading Practice All Levels
• N3 Resources
• N5 Dokkai
• Japanese Guide: Syllabus, Study list, Flashcards, eBooks
• JPDB - Crowdsourced J2E Dictionary, Media Database, Automatic i+1 Kanji/Vocab Flashcards
• Kitsun.io - An alternative for Anki
• Kuzushiji database - A website to search a character in Japanese and it will return with different images of the same character in different cursive writings
• Kakijun.jp - Same as above but with characters in different fonts
• Tadoku Read - Reading material based on different levels
• Multiple Resources

Reads on Japanese

• It's not easy!
• A year to learn Japanese.
• Japanese as hobby?
• New learners pass!
• Some common mistakes
• 180/180 in N1?
• Japanese for quitters
• Guide to swear in Japanese
• I read 25 books and 75 manga volumes!
• Why most kanji textbooks suck!? - An introduction to KanjiDamage method of learning kanji