How to Learn Japanese Effectively [3]: Resources
Back to the series index ★Learning Resources The Resources ★📖 Dictionaries Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary Takoboto | Japanese dictionary and Nihongo learning tool How to Pronounce Japanese Like a Native | Youglish ★📖 Reading Resources Aozora Bunko Aozora Bunko Assistant National Diet Library Search (NDL Search) Z-library Project - eBook Library Z. Download free Books Let’s Become a Novelist - A Novel Posting Site for Everyone ★🎧 Listening Practice ◇Bilingual Subtitled Videos Kamigami Subtitle Group: Documentaries and Anime NHK High School Lectures: Online short videos for Japanese high school students ◇News NEWS WEB EASY: A slower version of NHK, but it sounds like machine-generated audio, suitable for interpreting practice. Aozora Reading: Some works from Aozora Bunko are read by Japanese people. You can find articles of interest to listen to. ANNnewsCH: Each video comes with a transcript (subtitles) in the description, perfect for intensive listening. TV Tokyo BIZ: Mainly economic news, each video also comes with a transcript in the description, highly recommended. ABC TV News: The first sentence in the description is a summary of the news, followed by the transcript. Great for summarization practice. ★📚 Grammar Explanations Basic Verb Handbook | Always something new to learn Onomatopoeia Compound Verb Lexicon | Comprehensive but scattered in textbooks Learn Japanese – Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese IMABI Today – Guided Japanese Mastery ★📊 Text Difficulty Assessment Chuta’s Toolbox: Assesses the difficulty of vocabulary in a text, categorized by JLPT levels. Japanese Text Difficulty Discrimination System: Also assesses vocabulary difficulty but not by JLPT levels, providing more data. Learning Item Analysis System: Assesses grammar difficulty in a text, not categorized by JLPT levels. ★📜 Miscellaneous Japanese webpage furigana OJAD - Suzuki-kun’s Prosodic Tutor: This webpage can mark the pitch accent of a sentence and provide machine-generated audio. Kanbun HTML: Achieves beautiful Kanbun typesetting through HTML syntax. ★🎓 Thesis Related J-STAGE: Allows free downloads of papers without login. CiNii: Use Detailed Search - Full Text Link - Full Text Available to search for downloadable papers. Academic Institutional Repository Database: Download papers and other data under Files. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics: Japanese Research and Japanese Education Literature Database: Papers marked with Full Text Available can be downloaded. ★✍️ Practice Resources ◇Kana Tests learn kana ◇Writing Practice: Children’s Character Table Hiragana/Katakana Practice Grid Paper Hiragana/Katakana Chart Hiragana Writing Practice Sheet 1 2 3 Blank Writing Practice Sheet Self-Introduction Katakana (including Hiragana) Website Mnemonic jpg1 jpg2 jpg3 jpg4 jpg5 jpg6 pdf Mnemonic Website 1 2 3 4 Hiragana Blank Fill-in Printables 1 2 NHK Japanese Hiragana NHK Japanese Learning Platform 1000 Kanji List ◇Pronunciation Practice Downloadable audio files for comparison practice (basic_sounds.zip). Recommended Ancient Poem “Iroha”: Contains all Hiragana (except 「ん」), suitable as practice material. Back to the series index ...