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This is just a list of a whole bunch of websites I've found to be useful in learning Japanese. I wouldn't suggest following only 1 as a primary source of learning, but if you use 3-4, you could definitely learn a great deal of beginner material.


http://www.guidetojapanese.org/
- really good information on all the basics of Japanese. One of the most comprehensive beginner grammar sites I've seen. Need to know how to
read kana. Highly recommended.

http://www.learn-japanese.info/
- want to learn some quick and easy Japanese with little hassle? This site has really easy to follow lessons and can really help start you off in Japanese. Lessons can be read in either kana or romanji. Great for raw beginners.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
- Probably the best Japanese/English dictionary on the web. Very comprehensive and has all sorts of features.

http://www.jlptstudy.com/
- need to study for the JLPT? Want a complete guide to the material? This website neatly displays everything you need to know about the JLPT. Not a terribly good learning site, but is helpful.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ik2r-myr/kanji/kanji1pa.htm
- learning Kanji? This Java program can help you learn all (most of) the kanji on the JLPT.

http://www.kanji-a-day.com/index.php
- Learn a kanji a day! This site has lots of info about kanji and is a fun site to check out daily and learn some new kanji.

http://www.chipchat.com/NihonGo/
- need some help learning the kana? This site has a simple hiragana and katakana drill program to help review and learn the kana.

http://lrnj.com/
- download a fun mini-RPG game that helps you learn the kana and some kanji. Game can be really fun if your bored of the regular old write and repeat method.

I'm sure I got some of these links from various people in this guild, so if you see reposts and you think you found them first... you probably did. X D


http://www.japanesepod101.com/
I went to this site for 2 days about a month ago, and realized this might be the best site on the internet for learning Japanese in a non-classroom, non-native setting. I went back just now and it seems they require you to have a user ID, even if you don't pay them anything. I suppose that's only fair, they probably want to know who is downloading what sound files, etc. The free option should let you listen to all the audio you want. I haven't seen what their paid features are like. The Intermediate Lessons (I didn't listen to Beginner) are done


http://www.msu.edu/~lakejess/kanjigame.html
Interesting game that teaches you hiragana/katakana/kanji through a semi-flashcard method; they give you the word and you have 8 answers to choose from, but only one is correct. You can choose to have, for example, kana given to you and you click the English letter that matches, or they give you the English and you click the kana that matches. And the kanji has even more options. Just don't use the original background... it sucks X D.


http://nuthatch.com/kanji/
you know how you'll go to wikipedia for something, and two hours later you've clicked your way halfway across the world, and you're like "how did I get here from there?" This site is like that for me. Everything is clickable, it's just... /fun/.


http://homepage3.nifty.com/jgrammar/grammar/bldverb/
ATTENTION: this page seems to require a Java Platform to be installed on your computer in order to use. It's very interesting; it will conjugate a verb for you in every possible way a verb can be conjugated. As fascinating as this is for linguistics students and those who have studied more than one non-native language in their life, this site probably qualifies as Information Overload for a beginning Japanese student or someone who doesn't have a hyperfirm grasp on the wordier points of grammar.


Wow, I had a ton of broken links in my Japanese bookmarks folder. I'm glad this thread prompted me to go through so many and clean so many dead ones out.

awsome sites very helpful domokun

I'd say this is a brilliantwebsite with lots of information. It's well worth having a wander around the site and picking up things-

www.japanese.about.com

YAY!!! Japanes websites that can help me learn Japanese!! I know a little but not that much.

http://www.nihongoresources.com/
from hiragana/katana to kanji and all the grammar you can think of. Great site ^_^

http://japanese.about.com/library/blkodarchives.htm
all kanji, divided in grades ^_^

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072408154/student_view0/getting_started-999/part_1.html
This site is for testing you japanese abilities

http://www.learn-japanese.info/
good for new vocabulary, kanji, grammar, practice. It really has all ^_^

http://perapera.wordpress.com/perapera-kun/ - Pop-up translation add-on for Firefox. You just put your mouse over a Japanese word, and a little box with the definition will show up. Then you can press ctrl and it'll save the word and its meaning into a document for you. I find this extremely useful for reading Japanese online, and the dictionary is pretty good I've found (especially when it comes to verbs. It's very good at recognizing verbs in their various conjugations, something that I've had a problem with with Wakan, for example).

http://ichi2.net/anki/ - Great flashcard program that uses a theory of flashcard memorization called "spaced repetition." Depending on how well you remember certain cards, it'll schedule when a card should be studied again for optimum memorization. Obviously this can be used for anything (you can make your own cards), but it comes with some decks with JLPT vocabulary, as well as the entire first volume of Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig (and then there's also a random Russian deck).

Perapera-kun (see my link above) is related to this (uses the same dictionary even), except it can automatically save any words you don't know into a pre-determined file by just pressing ctrl.

EDIT: By the way, those other sites you gave are fabulous!