japanese-revision:

japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

• An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
• A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
• A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
• Read Real Japanese Fiction

Dictionaries:

• ALC (I use this everyday)
  →Expression encyclopaedia 
• Goo dictionary
• Weblio
• WWWJDIC (with audio clips)
• 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

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)
  
  

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]

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)

Listening:

• “Real World” Japanese
• 泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)

Writing practice:

• Lang-8
• www.Japan-Guide.com
• 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
• Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)

News:

• NewsWeb Easy
• NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
• Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts:

• JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)
• TBS Radio’s Junk
• TOKYO FM

YouTube:

• Afternoon Hirusagari
• Jet Daisuke
• バイリンガール英会話
• Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Japanese sign language.

• Heartful Power Hideo
• Shuwa Island

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
• 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]

Those studying in Japan.

• 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)

Blogging:

• Yaplog

Learning websites:

• JapaneseClass.jp
• The Japanese Page
• Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
• Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
• Maggie Sensei

Other resources:

• Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
• JLPT Resources

I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

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