Pages for learning Japanese about manga, sorted by how much they offer a learner.
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Explains how Japanese is written vertically and horizontally, with examples from manga and light novels showing traditional tategaki and modern yokogaki writing systems.
An app for learning Japanese, Chinese, and Korean through reading comics, listening to podcasts, and watching videos with interactive word lookup and spaced-repetition review integrated into the learning process.
Curated collection of free Japanese learning materials including pronunciation lessons, grammar reference guides, read-aloud methods with easy stories and radio programs, and manga study.
Blog post documenting an advanced Japanese learner's 2024 immersion activities across games, visual novels, light novels, manga and anime.
Video lesson for intermediate learners on asking directions at train stations. Includes basic and advanced skits, key phrases with grammar explanations, vocabulary development, and cultural content about Japanese travel.
Discover hidden travel destinations in Japan. Our team covers only fascinating, hole-in-the-wall places that tourists don't know about.
mLearn is a free language immersion app by Kikan for interactive subtitles, manga and PDF OCR, AI explanations, sentence mining, and SRS flashcards.
Video lessons with downloadable scripts and grammar explanations for intermediate learners, featuring conversations in everyday situations like classrooms, shops, and train stations set around the world.
Curated collection of free reading materials for JLPT N3 level learners, including graded readers, news articles, blogs, fairy tales, manga, and games with links to specific resources organized by format.
An essay exploring ma (間), the Japanese aesthetic concept of meaningful emptiness and pause in space and time, written for learners interested in Japanese aesthetics and calligraphy practice.
Student testimonials from learners who have practiced tadoku, or extensive reading, for over six months, showing improvements in reading speed, vocabulary, confidence, and enjoyment of Japanese texts.
GitHub topic page listing 29 public repositories for learning Japanese, including apps for kana practice, manga readers, JLPT preparation, and language learning tools built by the open source community.
Michael is a designer at Tofugu. He grew up in Charlotte, NC and studied writing and film production at North Carolina School of the Arts.
A learner's detailed retrospective of using Anki for Japanese study over one year, covering sentence mining, kanji learning strategies, and practical advice for building a sustainable study routine.
Guide to reading manga in Japanese for beginners, with recommended titles organized by difficulty level from N5 to N2, techniques for effective reading, and tools for looking up kanji while reading.
A blog with articles on preparing for JLPT N4, including study guides, kanji and vocabulary resources, graded readers, and tips for using apps and manga to learn Japanese.
Article about ukiyo-e woodblock prints that explores their history, artistic techniques, cultural significance, and influence on Japanese and Western art from the Edo period onward.
A curated list of 65 significant Japanese books spanning classical and contemporary fiction, poetry, and manga, with brief descriptions of why each work matters.
Explains how relaxed pronunciation works in Japanese, showing how words are abbreviated and distorted in casual speech and manga, with examples of common contractions that differ from dictionary forms.
Guide to five tools for Japanese reading practice, from OCR for manga to spaced repetition software, showing how learners can combine them into a daily workflow.
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