LEARN JAPANESE

  1. https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/learn/learnmain
  2. https://learnjapanese.moe/
  3. Japanese Subtitles: https:/kitsunekko.net/
  4. Immersion: https://live.fc2.com holodex.net
  5. http://chatpad.jp
  6. http://skypech.com
  7. Anime Recommender: https://anibrain.ai/recommender/anime
  8. Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10bRzVblKVOsQJjTc2PIi1Gbj_LrsJCkMkh0SutXCZdI/edit
  9. Another guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/k9nw7t/yes_you_can_teach_yourself_japanese_to_a_high/
  10. https://www.youtube.com/@mattvsjapan
  11. Yomichan Integration: https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/

Random Stuff I Picked up Online and need to research later

  1. "core 2.3k after tango n5 or should I do tango n4? I'm 1050/1171 into tango n5"
  2. "I began studying the cards in both directions (A to B, B to A) and this helped my speaking skills immensely. Now I’m creating Anki decks for Kanji, Vocab, and Grammar. Each deck has two sub-decks: English to Japanese and Japanese to English." - r/learnjapanese wiki
  3. On themoeway -> I think the guide is pretty solid considering the broad audience it's aiming at, and isn't too pushy in its recommendations, which is a welcome change from a lot of other study guides like AJATT, etc. that espouse the One, True Way. There are just two notes I'd add to the guide:

    I recommend learning the Kanji with Vocab, like the author described their learning approach; it definitely helps put new Kanji in context and gives your memory a "hook" when recalling the Kanji (like the author, I often recognise e.g. 便 as the first Kanji of 便利). However, I would also recommend studying the Kanji in isolation when you first encounter it; that is, look up the meaning of that Kanji and learn its abstract meaning, distinct from the word you encountered it in. Now you'll have a new Anki card for the word itself, plus another card with the Kanji on the front and the 2-3 abstract words to describe it on the back. For example, the most recent word I added to Anki is 閲覧, in which 閲 was unfamiliar, so I also added a card for [閲] -- [review, inspection], which are the first two words in the list when you look up that Kanji (well, depending on the reference).

    Finally, the author doesn't mention this (and rightly so, I think), but to be explicit, I don't bother with learning onyomi and kunyomi when learning Kanji in isolation - I feel you pick them up quite comfortably/naturally just from learning the pronunciation in context. This is to the extent that, if you recognise the Kanji in a word then you can often guess the correct pronunciation before you even look it up.

    The second point I'd make is that the author recommends Core 2K over Tango, favouring words at the front instead of sentences. I don't actually have experience with either, but I do use Core 6K with isolated words at the front, and something that I've found tremendously useful is being able to include a sample sentence on the back of the card. I recommend doing this with grammatical words in particular, as it can be difficult to make sense of them in isolation. For example, I recently added a card for それとも, and because the meaning ("or; or else") is so general, I'd be a bit sunk trying to remember how/when it should be used without the accompanying samples:

    妙な意味じゃないだろうな。それとも嘘をついたのか。

    黒の子のくせに知らないの?それともよそ者?
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Pub: 21 Feb 2023 10:42 UTC

Edit: 23 Feb 2023 08:30 UTC

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