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CategoriesBlogs 24Grammar 20Resource lists and engines 19Kanji and kana 17Apps and tools 12Reading practice 11Vocabulary 8Pronunciation and intonation 3Courses, textbooks and schools 3Communities and forums 2JLPT and other tests 1Listening and audio 1For children 1Dictionaries and lookup 1
TopicsImmersion 19Beginner 16Spaced repetition 12Manga 11Furigana 11Particles 10Katakana 10Hiragana 9Textbooks 8Pitch accent 8Forums and communities 8Sentence patterns 7
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Educational guide explaining the six traditional categories of kanji and how they are structured, helping learners understand the logical organization of Japanese characters beyond memorization tricks.
A curated list of manga and games suitable for beginner Japanese learners, with descriptions of difficulty levels, vocabulary focus, and plot complexity to help readers choose appropriate immersion material.
A personal learning blog with posts on Japanese grammar, kanji, study methods, and learning theory. Includes a timeline of study notes, phrase collections, and advice for learners at various levels.
Guide to tools and strategies for beginning Japanese readers, covering browser extensions, ebook devices, mobile apps, and visual novel tools to facilitate early reading through immersion with support technology.
A personal wiki collecting scattered notes on Japanese learning methods, grammar tricks, kanji study, and curated resources for learners at all levels.
A learning roadmap for Japanese that guides students from hiragana and katakana through grammar, vocabulary, and listening to reading immersion.
There comes a point to any “immersion heavy” language learner where they have to dip their feet into the scary land of Output.
Blog post explaining how to effectively use Bunpro, a grammar SRS tool, in a Japanese study routine.
A study blog with notes on Japanese grammar patterns, kanji systems, pitch accent, Anki settings, and immersion learning strategies, written by a learner documenting their progress and methods.
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.
This is a mostly scattered collection of sites, tooling, and all kind of things that can help you learn Japanese.
Overview of the JLPT proficiency test, its advantages and limitations, and alternative tests like the BJT and Kanji Kentei. Serves learners evaluating certification goals and progress measurement options.
Personal blog post tracking one learner's 2025 Japanese consumption across media types including video games, visual novels, light novels, manga, and anime, with detailed statistics and reflections on learning progress.
Summary of kanji classification systems covering the six categories of kanji formation including pictographic, ideographic, and semantic-phonetic types, with examples for learners studying kanji structure.
Detailed guide to keiseimoji (形声文字), the most common kanji type, explaining how semantic and phonetic components work together.
Explains onyomi and kunyomi readings by contrasting how kanji represent Chinese loanwords versus native Japanese words, with examples showing why single kanji have multiple pronunciations.
Blog post documenting an advanced Japanese learner's 2024 immersion activities across games, visual novels, light novels, manga and anime.
A personal blog post tracking one advanced learner's Japanese immersion hours and media consumption throughout 2022, including time spent on manga, light novels, video games, and visual novels, with reflections on.
A curated learning roadmap for Japanese beginners recommending study methods and resources in order: kana, grammar and vocabulary with Anki, and kanji recognition through reading.
A curated collection of frequently asked questions about learning Japanese with links to recommended explanations for common grammar, vocabulary, and kana topics.
Overview of kanji fundamentals covering origins, readings, classification systems, and practical study approaches.
A learner's personal review of their Japanese immersion progress in 2023, detailing hours spent with manga, video games, visual novels, light novels, and anime, with recommendations for series and discussion of reading.
Explains furigana, the phonetic annotations placed above kanji to show readings, covering its historical origins, modern uses in Japanese texts, and how learners can use it to read complex words and look up unfamiliar.
A study blog documenting one learner's Japanese immersion progress through yearly reviews, weekly reading reports, and reflections on learning methods like Anki.
Explains exceptional categories of kanji including compound semantic-phonetic kanji and kanji invented in Japan, with etymological examples and historical context.
An article explaining narrow reading as a strategy for Japanese learners to transition from textbooks to native material by focusing on single authors or topics, reducing cognitive load and improving retention.
A blog post evaluating the effectiveness of learning Japanese through song lyrics, explaining both benefits and significant limitations for learners.
A blog post evaluating the effectiveness of Anki flashcards with English prompts and Japanese responses, arguing against this approach for vocabulary study and explaining why context-based learning works better.
Jumping into reading native material can be quite intimidating at first, especially with the huge amount of vocab required and a complicated writing system like kanji.
Explains 象形文字 (pictographic kanji) that represent concrete things, showing how modern kanji evolved from oracle bone and seal script forms. Suitable for learners studying kanji origins and classification.
A collection of grammar patterns and phrases used by native speakers that typically do not appear in textbooks or the JLPT, with explanations for intermediate learners of how these patterns work in actual Japanese.
If you have been linked to this page, it’s probably because one of the following points applies to you. You may disagree with what is written here, and that’s normal, if not even expected.
A blog post explaining why memorizing kanji readings in isolation is ineffective and recommending that learners study kanji through words instead.
Explains the two less common categories of kanji classification (転注文字 and 仮借文字) and how kanji acquire alternative meanings through usage and phonetic loans.
The Japanese writing system can feel very intimidating when you’re first starting out.
A critical review of Duolingo for Japanese learning that identifies strengths and significant weaknesses, including issues with kanji readings, pitch accent, and natural language usage.
Dealing with uncertainty and not understanding sentences is sometimes scary and people like to have confirmation of what a sentence they are reading actually means or if their understanding is correct.
A blog post examining the strategy of learning Japanese through speaking and listening only, explaining why reading and kanji study are necessary for most learners despite initial difficulty.
A blog post analyzing translation exercises in Japanese textbooks and explaining why translation-focused practice may be inefficient for language learners.
Explains 会意文字 (kanji composed of multiple components) with examples like 森 (forest) and 休 (rest) that show how component meanings combine to create larger meanings.
Explains shiji-moji, a category of kanji that visually represent abstract ideas and concepts, with examples like 一, 二, 三 and notes on historical exceptions.
Beginners are often interested in finding easy and simple material they can read to practice their language understanding.
Overview of Japanese writing systems including romaji, hiragana, katakana, and kanji, explaining how each system works and when it is used. Suitable for complete beginners learning to read and write Japanese.
Guide to Anki, a spaced repetition flashcard software widely used by Japanese learners for vocabulary and kanji study. Explains how the software works and covers both pre-made and custom deck creation.
A brief note discussing the benefits and limitations of the Remembering the Kanji method for learning kanji, particularly for handwriting and recognizing kanji components.
Guide to understanding pitch accent in Japanese, explaining why beginners should start learning it early and providing practical exercises and resources for ear training.
Guide to looking up unknown kanji using Jisho's radical search and Google Translate's handwriting tool. Helps learners identify and understand unfamiliar kanji characters.
You say that Japanese has many ways to say “but”, but also you don’t realize that the “but” you use in English has a lot of meanings that you wouldn’t normally consider as separate but they are.
Guide to using the Tsukuba Web Corpus to research how Japanese words and verbs combine with particles and grammatical structures, showing frequency data from native texts.
Guide to learning independently by navigating Japanese resources online and troubleshooting common questions about grammar, vocabulary, kanji, pronunciation and reading.
A blog post discussing the effectiveness of textbook grammar exercises like fill-in-the-blank particle drills, offering pros and cons and recommending against them for most learners.
There are certain phrases in English that get translated in Japanese in different ways but we see them in our native language (Assuming English, but doesn’t matter) as if they are the same thing.
A blog post examining why study partners are ineffective for Japanese learners and recommending alternatives like language exchange communities and tutoring platforms.
English Japanese Language Exchange is a Discord server where Japanese learners and native speakers practice together through text and voice chat, ask study questions, and find study partners.
A collection of study notes and reflections on Japanese language learning posted to Reddit, covering topics like Anki usage, pitch accent, vocabulary distinctions, and learning approaches for intermediate learners.
Explains the uncommon grammar pattern 〜くあれる, formed by combining い-adjective adverbial forms with the potential form of ある, for advanced learners encountering this structure in native texts.
A guide to finding explanations of Japanese particles and grammar structures through existing resources, recommending Itazuraneko's grammar aggregate and Japanese-language search results.
A blog post critiquing error correction exercises as an ineffective study method, explaining why they harm language learning and recommending alternatives.
Explains the modern usage of すごい as an adverb in Japanese, showing how native speakers use it with examples like すごいおいしい. Suitable for intermediate learners understanding colloquial grammar patterns.
An immersion-focused grammar guide for beginner Japanese learners that explains grammar patterns with examples and explanations.
Explains the archaic pattern of placing particles after verbs, which survives in modern expressions like たはいいが and がよい. Helps intermediate learners understand uncommon grammatical structures.
Guide to identifying differences between similar Japanese words using dictionaries, search techniques, and sentence examples to understand nuances that learners often miss.
This is what is called an 異字同訓 (ijidoukun).
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