Resources
An Overview of Learning Japanese
- Japanese has a written language system with two syllabaries of 46 and 48 base characters each and one ideographic character set with over 2000 unique characters to learn
- Required study time until proficient: 2,200+ hours
- www.jisho.org is a key resource
- Hard work and consistency are a must!
We strive to help you in your learning journey!
By providing resources and encouragement, we empower learners to immerse themselves in the beauty of the Japanese language and culture.
Below, you’ll find resources for all levels.
The Basics (Pre-N5 Level)
- Learning Hiragana
- Learning Katakana
- Learning basic Kanji (up to advanced)
- Recommended textbooks for beginners
- Recommended apps
- Memrise (for gamified memorisation of vocabulary)
- Anki (for flashcard-based learning)
- Human Japanese I
- Lang-8 is a good resource for learning to write and getting feedback from native speakers (for all levels)
Pre-Intermediate (N4)
- Recommended textbooks
- Recommended apps
- Kanji
- https://hochanh.github.io/rtk/rtk1-v6/ (List of all the jōyō kanji with animated stroke order)
Intermediate (N3)
- Recommended textbooks
- Recommended apps
- Tangorin
- Recommended websites
- https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/
- https://matcha-jp.com/easy
- https://tangorin.com/ (lightweight Japanese dictionary with example sentences)
- https://www.satorireader.com/ (graded reading materials for your particular reading level)
- https://www.youtube.com/user/freejapaneselessons3/playlists (video lessons for N3 – N1)
Pre-Advanced (N2+)
- Recommended textbooks
- Recommended apps
- Recommended sites
- https://www.kitsunekko.net (anime subtitles in Japanese)
- https://www.italki.com/ (learn languages via Skype. Great for speaking practice)
Advanced (N1+)
- Recommended textbooks
- Recommended apps
- Podcasts, sites etc
- https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/
- https://news.yahoo.co.jp/
- https://matcha-jp.com/jp
- http://syosetu.com/ (read novels published by other users for free)