This page is a chaotic goldmine of Japanese teaching resources. I have bookmarks of resources galore on my browser and in other logs. I am trying to put them in a little better order here.
Key: (trying to create a rating system; also cost marker) [10] = 10 out of 10 quality rating . [$] = a little money [$$$] equals a lot of money. (most stuff here is free)
Beginner Students
Hiragana –
Hiragana quizzes one |
Doraemon lessons (for hiragana and more) – ドラえもん おけいこ(Doraemon youtube)
Kanji Radicals (Yes, beginners should start learning Kanji) –
Yakitori (me) Sensei’s Guide to Kanji (work in progress)
Radical Cheatsheet this sheet uses some funky nicknames for the radicals when perfectly good general meanings already exist for most of the radicals. I think he was making special mnemonics for his specific system.
Kanji Link these 48 radicals cover 75% of all kanji
Kanji Cards
http://kanjicards.org/ ( a FREE alternative to paying for physical kanji flashcards; can download free flashcard pdf)
Kanji (with mnemonics)
Expressions and phrase lists –
Jref’s useful expressions list
About.com’s list of Japanese phrases [10]
Verbs –
Barron’s 501 Japanese Verbs anki deck
Japanese Verb Congugator
Intermediate Students
Get that grammar going
Visualizing Japanese Grammar by Shoko Hamano [10] AMAZING
Grammar flashcards from the 3 Volumes of Japanese Grammar Dictionary
Refer to grammar dictionaries
https://www.wasabi-jpn.com/japanese-grammar/wasabis-online-japanese-grammar-reference/
https://core6000.neocities.org/dojg/
Level up with Onomatopoeia
Gitaigo & Giongo flashcards for Anki
Things your textbook probably won’t teach you –
Expressing emotions (anki flashcards)
Intermediate to Advanced
Language thru Television –
FluentU’s list of Japanese dramas (probably the best being the school dramas like 大切なことはすべて君が教えてくれた (search youtube)
Educational programs are better
Japanese – English daily news (short)
Components of natural converstion
Aidzuchi (“back-channeling”)
– a guide to keeping conversation engaged
– tofugu article of Aizuchi
Advanced : Teachers and Language Ninjas
my Advanced Japanese resources page
Random resources
Dictionaries –
picture dictionary ! | another | another
Online Textbooks/ Interactive textbooks –
Yakitori Sensei’s resource list of Survival Japanese and common phrases
Yakitori Sensei’s list of online textbooks and textbook-like resources
Gakuu – online textbook [$$]
Tsukuba University’s Situational Functional Japanese
Renshuu.org‘s Japanese comprehensive Japanese interactive study tool
Online Japanese Courses (Japanese classes with their courses online)-
Schools in Japan with coursework online (Japanese language class & other subjects but taught in Japanese)-
Jochi “Sophia” University’s “Open Course Ware” (Video recordings of Japanese college classes!! besides it being from my Alma Mater I think it really is some great stuff)
Reading Material –
Liana’s Extended reading advice
Tofugu’s list of reading material
Games (board games, etc.) –
Iroha Karuta
–a list of the proverbs with english meaning
Tests
Video –
Audio –
Audio storybook stories with read-along text
Flashcards (general)-
Software –
HumanJapanese – to learn Japanese from scratch (see what it contains) – (Japantree interview with Human Japanese creator) [free primer then $. but only about 18$ USD]
Text-to-speech (TTS) and free Japanese voices
Balabolka | free text to speech Japanese SAPI 5 (you need both)
Micro-translation and edit-correcting websites –
lang-8 & it sister-site HiNative (language exchange; native speakers correct your jpn text)
https://rhinospike.com/ (language exchandge; Japanese people will record audio for you)
Immersion –
LiveMocha – free Rosetta Stone alternative
Compilations –
http://www.ajalt.org/english/online/
Jim Breen’s Japanese Page (the mother of all compilations)
Saboten’s Japanese Teacher resource list
Saboten’s Japanese learning resources list
resources page of HILLS lang school in NY
Miscellaneous –
https://www.omniglot.com/language/kinship/japanese.htm
Lots of free https://www.punipunijapan.com/free-stuff/
tutors – https://kakehashijapan.com/
list of all family members (comphrehensive) https://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/japanese-family.html
https://mygenerationjapan.wordpress.com/
Youtubers who teach japanese https://teamjapanese.com/7-awesome-youtubers-will-teach-japanese/
How to use hiNative (my guide to using HiNative)
https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/2301650
THE REAL way to address everyone -日本語の二人称代名詞 – (wikipedia japanese) https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E4%BA%8C%E4%BA%BA%E7%A7%B0%E4%BB%A3%E5%90%8D%E8%A9%9E