I find this topic right after I spend hours making Hiragana flashcards XD

Learn Japanese Language

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This is a really good site as well:

Nihongo O Narau

they have the paper Japanese students use to practice the kana available for print there.

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there aretoo rikku's whats her full username??

Genki I ~ An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese 1 Textbook
this textbook might cost a bit... but it's really useful. It starts of with the basics like greetings and after a few chapters it starts teaching kanji.
There's also CDs that can be bought off Jbox that help with speaking.
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Hi everybody...

Thanks for all the good site adwise... I've tried them all, but... since I'm a beginner I only read/understand japanese in roman letters. Therefor I would like to ask you, if you know any translation pages, where you can translate an english text into japanese but written in roman letters... Is that possible... I hope you understand my english, since I'm not a native speaker and therefor make a lot of mistakes...

Anyway, I hope can help me... If anybody can it's you guys I'm sure!!! ;)

Mata ne...
Nina.

Mango Beta Launched!

Just found this today, offers voice clips, and slides of various languages including Japanese. Just started looking through it, but it looks pretty good, and it's free.

hi need help with this sentence~~ i think it is describing some ramen of some sort

よりによって野菜ラーメンとかボリューミーなの頼んじ ゃったし

Wrong thread this time, nightlord!

opps gomen nasai~~~

ok, thanks!!!!:)

Great thread, I appreciate all the work everyone has put into it.

Thx for the useful links! ^_^

wow thx for all those sites ive added them to my favourites and i will be checking them out THX !!:D

thank you so much for this!! i am very happy now!!!:rheart:

Google Translate
I was actually surprised when Google made a translate page because it has lots of languages including JAPANESE :D and it translates the whole sentence(s) with accurate results unlike some other websites so try i use it most of the time !

nihongo de carenavi by the japanese language instute in kansai.

Rather than retyping all of that stuff again, I'll just link you all to a post I made the other day listing all the resources I have in bookmarks right now.

http://www.japanforum.com/forum/japa...g-methods.html

I'll also mention a really great TV program available online called "Let's Learn Japanese: Basic". You can find at veoh.com, but you will need to download their player in order to watch the entire program. Very well worth it, however:cool: .

Hi,

I'm making a site with free printable flashcards for Japanese learners.

zehi minna-san goran kudasai!

sprstrikesback - Japanese for Smart People

I've just started a Japanese-learning blog for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese. It's called Before Breakfast, and you can find it here:

beforebreakfast.net: 日本語を朝飯前にするウェブサイト

My site is not for beginners; reading ability for hiragana and katakana (and basic kanji) is assumed. It's always seemed to me that too many sites out there are tailored to absolute beginners (and never give enough information) or they're tailored to super-advanced learners (and the information is never in an easy-to-digest form).

In contrast, my site's purpose is to provide interesting tidbits about advanced Japanese in a format that can be readily understood by intermediate Japanese speakers, hence helping them up to the next level.

I hope you'll visit, comment, and learn something! :ywave:

Thanks
 

Thank you Gymo,
it's very useful.

Thanks for all the links, I filled my favorites to the brim :)

Thank you all for the information. I am trying to learn Japanese, and it's hard because my school does not have any classes about it, nor will it in later years. Independent study is often difficult.

Check this out! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6178

Yes, it only works with Firefox, so IE users are screwed... I use IE, but I got stuck with Firefox by accident a little while ago :D , so that's another option: just go and get it!

Basically (if you don't feel like going to the site), it's an addon for Firefox that puts furigana over Kanji in a Japanese text online.

And it kicks ass.

I did change my signature after that post, so I'm sorry if it seems redundant (or related words).

can i join i am part japanese on my
 

fathers side and need to learn as much as possible because i am moving their after i graduate highschool and college as a fulltime missionary as well as english teacher and i pray voice actress.

oh yesss
 

Special thanks to everybody for all the links, a big lot of useful stuff.:vsign:
Amnell you just gave me the key, I've been looking for such thing for long.:rheart:

You're most welcome! ^_^

Here's another key:

WaKan Project Website - Download

*joygasm*

That has to be one of the coolest features I have ever seen! Thank you very much.

ありがとうございました

Flash card program for vocabulary

Learn Spanish, French, Italian, German and 58 other languages with BYKI software.


Japanese tutor

Japanese lesson from basics

Here is another source, my first contribution to this forum. Hope it's not a double post. I couldn't find it here.

Nihongo o Narau - Learn Japanese

Great site for learning to read/write Japanese. (Not much romaji in the higher lessons)


Usagi-Chan's Genki Resources

I think all these links should be put into the first post just for easier reading.
also to prevent double posts

I want a website where I can download MP3 files to my MP3, there are so many sites, I got myself lost =P

Thanks :)

that's why we need to put all the links on the first page and organize them to be more userfriendly

some categories could be:
Japnaese culture
Japanese language in general (subsections- kana, kanji, grammar, etc)
podcasts

etc...

should we just start a new thread?

This is also my First Posting !!!!!:ywave:

But, I love your links, as well as All of the Links in this thread !!!!!!!!! Thank you all so much !!!!!!!

All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to Learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency
This blog has influenced me the most :3 I listen to Japanese music and shows as much as possible every day. Most of my Japanese learning is due to just hearing it all the time and picking up on words and looking up words in my dictionary that I keep hearing and don't know.

Rosetta Stone
When I have the time (at least an hour to devote to it) which should be every day, but I'm not always in the mood, I do lessons in Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone is the best Japanese language learning software. It's not free, but it works! There's absolutely no English involved, and you can choose whether you would like to read in romaji, kana, or kanji while the speaker goes over the word. Also, there are two different native speakers, a man and a lady, that take turns saying the phrases. At first, I really couldn't understand the man (or any men speaking Japanese) but now it's so natural. I highly recommend this program for anyone interested in learning Japanese quickly with little time put into it.

Fun Japanese Sites for Kids!
I've been looking for activities to do in Japanese on the web for a while, and really, I only find stuff in western languages. I have found a few websites, but I would love it if anyone knew of any interactive flash activities for Japanese!
kids.yahoo.co.jp
Yahoo is amazing ^^ There are tons of kids games with some vocabulary that beginners can catch on to :3 The Japanese is not "dumbed down" for foreign language speakers, but since it's for children, the situations are easy to understand (like "count how many bells there are" etc.)
www.web-japan.org/kidsweb
This is a really cool site! You can even switch to the Japanese language if you are more advanced :3 There are cute activities for children learning Japanese. :3

Software I use:
BYKI-Before you know it (useful Japanese phrases with pronunciation.)
Human Japanese (It's mostly a book with words that can be pronounced. They also have interactive quizes on what you learn)
Tell me more: (it looks like....an old Windows 97 program...but it goes over useful phrases and has many activities you can do to remember what you learn.)
Anki- This is what I use to memorize Kanji. I have about 900 memorized so far, so yes, it's been working great. Focus on the English translation, rather than the Japanese pronunciation and then when you stumble on the words in your reading material, you get an idea as to what the word and you can pronounce it as an example in the sentence :3

Others:

Youtube + Tubesucker = Great music you can listen to on Youtube without streaming it.
I use Tubesucker to download the music from Youtube so that I can listen it to my ipod without streaming it all the time.

Rikaichan-
It's a firefox extension that shows you the pronunciation and definition of japanese words (especially intended for kanji) It also helps when picking the right kanji while typing in Japanese. You hover your mouse over the word and it gives you a better idea of what the word says. Some kanji combinations it doesn't translate (just the two individually) but for most, it recognizes the two or more as a word (including the verbs with hiragana after it) and tells you what tense the verb is in.

Sharedtalk.com - The best free language exchange website ever. It shows all the characters in it's (flash?) based chats. It offers text and voice chats as well as an email thing. There are also chat rooms for particular languages. The Japanese language chatroom almost always has someone in there who can help you. I highly recommend this website to those who have a grasp of the language and want to practice. Romaji is okay there too. You will see hiragana and kanji, but not everyone expects it.

To type in hiragana/kanji:
Get the microsoft IME- it should be in your control panel, go to keyboards and add a keyboard: go to Japanese, and then click Japanese IME. That's all you need.
Now you get a toolbar that gives you the options of english and japanese. Pick japanese and click the input button to switch to hiragana or katakana. Type as you would romaji. When you type hiragana, you press enter when a word (or phrase) is done to keep it in hiragana (it takes a little practice to get the hang of it) and press space to choose your kanji if you want to.

If any of these were posted before, I'm just adding my two cents about them :3

:3 がんばって！　Good luck!

Tae Kim's Japanese guide to Japanese grammar

Probably the best text I've seen for teaching Japanese :3 .

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