★Learning 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 Availableto 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 Availablecan be downloaded.
★✍️ Practice Resources #
◇Kana Tests #
◇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.