Textbooks:
- A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
- A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
- A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar
- Read Real Japanese Fiction
- GENKI: Integrated Elementary Japanese I and II [beginners]
- An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
- Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow
- Tobira (Gateway to advanced Japanese)
- TextFugu [an online textbook]
- Heisig’s Remembering Kanji
- Basic Kanji Book Vol.1
- Kanji in Context
- Shadowing: Let’s Speak Japanese! (Beginner to Intermediate Level)
- Japanese The Manga Way
- Making Out in Japanese [for informal/vulgar language]
- Minimum Essential Politeness: Japanese Honorific
Online and Phone Dictionaries:
- ALC (I use this everyday)
→Expression encyclopaedia- Goo dictionary
- Weblio
- WWWJDIC (with audio clips) + for Android phones (incl. handwriting)
- JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
- JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
- Idiomatic Expressions
- Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
- Counters dictionary
- Hovering dictionaries:
→Rikaikun for Chrome
→Rikaichan for Firefox
→Floating Dictionary for Mac- Current Affairs dictionary
- Tangorin
- Imiwa? (a dictionary for the iPhone)
- Tagaini Jisho (downloadable for Windows, Mac and Linux)
- Nihongodict (also an app. for iPhone and Android phones)
For kanji.
- Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
- Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
- A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
- Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
- Handwritten kanji search
- WaniKani (reviewed and explained here)
Online reading:
- Hukumusume Fairytales
- 竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)
- 吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)
- Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
- TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
- Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]
- Blue Sky Library (public domain books, explained here)
Manga.
- Free online manga
- Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
- Sound Effects (in manga, etc)
Improving your speaking:
- Japanese pronunciation guide
- Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
- Topics for Language Exchanges.
- Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
- Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)
- My Language Exchange [to find a language partner]
- Japanese Kana (Chrome app)
Listening:
- “Real World” Japanese
- 泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 – ‘08 (radio drama)
Reading & Writing practice:
- Lang-8
- Japan-Guide [for getting Japanese penpals]
- Read, Write, Learn: Macaronics
- 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
- Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)
- iTalki [similar to Lang-8]
- 手書きブログ (Blogging by hand)
- ChatPad (Japanese chatroom site)
- Real Kana practice
News:
- NewsWeb Easy
- NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
- Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper
Podcasts and radio:YouTube:
- Afternoon Hirusagari
- Jet Daisuke
- バイリンガール英会話
- Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)
- Real Japanese Studio
- Japancast
- Tofugu
- Japanese Let’s Play gamers
- サイエンスチャネル
- TheWannabeBC
- Gaijin Goombah
Japanese sign language.
TV:
- Japanese subtitles for anime
- KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
- 風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)
- 映画で学ぶ実践英会話
Tumblr:
- Kanji-a-Day
- Holy crap Japanese
- Nihongo ga Suki
- Jumpstart Japanese
- Nihongolog
- Japanese Idioms
- Nadine Nihongo
- That Japan Addict
- ChilliMuffin
- Japanese through Fandom
- F-Yeah Native Japanese
- J-Vocab of the Day
- ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
- Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]
- Kumako365jp
- Japanese Revision (my blog for intermediates)
Those who are studying in Japan
- My Japan Travels (Yokohama National University)
- Mechakuchajan (Osaka University)
- Hola-Itza (Meiji Gakuin)
- The Disaster Chronicles (Toyo University) [wordpress]
- Welcome to Moonside (University of Kitakyushu)
2012 – 2013 exchange students
- Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
- Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
- Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
- Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
- Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)
- Yeonhwa Japan (Chuo University)
- Mago Mago (Ritsumeikan University)
- Marta in Japan (Waseda University)
Working as part of the JET Programme
Blogging:
Learning websites:
Other resources:
- Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
- JLPT Resources
- Top 100 learning resources via Lingualift
- Anki (flashcards for your computer, phone and online)
→Yomichan (plug-in for Anki)- Common things said by cashiers
- Quizlet (flashcards)
- DJT and Okra’s pastebins (lots of resources and textbooks for download, etc)
- Japanese.Livejournal (including tips on using IME)
- Human Japanese (for PC and phones, excl. Linux)
- Study Groups
- Help with Japanese via StackExchange
I’ve added even more to the list since I first posted this and am continuing to add new things to it. So, I thought I’d re-post it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!
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