Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Name/Link To Resource Type of Resource Primary Type of Learning Features
Name/Link To Resource Type of Resource Primary Type of Learning Features
Peaceful Cuisine Youtube Listening - relaxing cooking videos and vlogs with english subs
ねこてん Youtube Listening - random cute vlogs with english subs a bit after uploading
NIHONGO eな Website Micellaneous - visit this site if you need more study and practice resources!
Utaten Website Micellaneous - get lyrics for japanese songs with furigana already built in
- reading practice sourced from NHK easy news and Japanese folk tales
Tangoristo App Reading practice
- seems to be a bit glitchy (last time i useed it) still but quite good overall
- a calming where's waldo-type game with cute animated graphics and sounds
Hidden Folks Game Reading practice
- play in japanese or english! (no furigana)
- a cute, short, free visual novel about Haru, a young Japanese transgender woman
one night, hot springs Game Reading practice going to a hot spring with her friends
- play in english or japanese! (no furigana, no voiceovers)
Hiragana Megane Browser resource Reading resource - adds furigana to websites in japanese
*HIGHLY RECOMMENDED*
Rikaichan/Rikaikun Browser resource Reading resource - displays the reading and definition of japanese words when the mouse scrolls over
- an essential add-on for reading Japanese in Chrome or Firefox
Tangorin Website Reading resource - my preferred dictionary for browser- compact, user-friendly interface with examples
*RECOMMENDED*
- most useful for the image-to-text (OCR) function! good for reading manga lol
Google Translate App Reading Resource
- a wee bit inconveient for translating multiple words (gotta expand to see the reading)
but great if you're too lazy to write out the kanji
*RECOMMENDED*
Google Handwriting Input App Reading resource - write kanji out by hand to look it up on your phone!
- usually quite accurate regardless of how sloppy your character looks
- huge comprehensive selection of japanese vocab from beginner to advanced
- automatically reads aloud vocab and example sentences in fluent japanese
iKnow App Vocabulary, some listening
- 2 example sentences per vocab
- pricey, but the free version is a great resource
Lang-8 Website Writing - write blog-type posts in japanese for correction by native japanese speakers
*HIGHLY RECOMMENDED*
- write posts in japanese for correction by native japanese speakers
Writing
Hellotalk App - record audio to post or send to language partners to practice speaking
Speaking
- make japanese language partners
- lots of japanese ppl use this app so it's likely you'll get a reply!