The "Learning Links to Learning Japanese"

[Muku]

This thread is for any and everyone who is interested in learning Japanese without having to to spend money for a school or online program. The links included here are for the most part to sites that offer free information about learning Japanese.

I invite anyone here to post their favorite links if they have any, for other members to access and help to improve their Japanese language skills.

One thing that I ask is please check the current links before adding a new
one to avoid duplicate links.

Well here we go;

The following site is great for all levels of users.:D

A listing of free learning resources for the learners of the Japanese language. All are freely available on the web - no payments, no logins (with one exception which works with anonymous guest login), no subscription requirements.
(http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.rowley/resources.html)

Japanese Verbs (http://www.timwerx.net/language/jpverbs/index.htm#contents)

This is a great site for looking up and learning kanji and their meanings.
Kanji A Day (http://www.kanji-a-day.com/)

The following link is helpful for those interested in taking the JLPT, Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
Online Japanese Language Study Materials (http://www.manythings.org/japanese/)

Printable Hiragana/Katakana Flash Cards (http://www.unckel.de/kanacards/index-en.html)

Kana Teacher Online (http://www.unckel.de/kanateacher/index.html)

This link is an automatic translator for users of Mozilla Firefox
Automatic Translator (http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/)

This link is for learning Kanji by grade level, 1st grade Elementary school to Junior High School.
Kanji Land (http://japanese.about.com/library/blkodarchives.htm)

This last link is to an online Dictionary, however this is not an ordinary dictionary, it translates English to Japanese and vice versa. This is an outstanding tool, you can copy and paste text into the proper location and it will translate very accurately not only individual kanji but pages of text as well. This site takes a bit of work to get used to using but it is extremely valuable and handy for translation and looking up words in the dictionary. It also is capable of finding words in the word search function that are written in romaji.

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese Dictionary Server (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html)

Please remember, it isnt necessary to pay a ton of money to learn Japanese, there are tons of links available on the internet that can get you started not only in the right direction, but can help you truly learn and maybe master Japanese. All it takes is the motivation to start.

If anyone wants or needs more sites, I have many more available, please feel free to drop a comment or request here and I will gladly add more.:D

The below links are being added by DocP as a way to keep all learning links here in the original post. Any links added in this thread will be moved to this post.

www.hesjapanese.com (useful info including JLPT quizzes) added by norio

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~damell/Japanese/exercise.html (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~damell/Japanese/exercise.html) Dartmouth College Japanese Language Learning site...includes kanji lessons

http://www.elanguageschool.net/ (http://www.elanguageschool.net/) This site has a little of everything

University of Virginia Kanji Learning site (University of Virginia Kanji Learning site) This is my favorite, very easy to use and extremely useful!

http://www.kanjisite.com/index.html (http://www.kanjisite.com/index.html) another favorite...a lot of kanji help here.

[dk]

Thanks for posting this. :D Sticked.

This is going to be so useful for me too!

[norio]

Interesting new site: www.hesjapanese.com
:star:

[Isaak Brodsky]

Many thanks for the excellent URLs. Really useful stuff. Cheers.

[DoctorP]

I thought that I would add this link as well

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~damell/Japanese/exercise.html

This is one of my favorites...

[Schel]

try this too

http://www.elanguageschool.net/

[FDokinawa]

nice links.. I posted these up on Zeroyon too... lots of people on there that want to learn japanese too.

[okiprince07]

thanks a lot for posting this man, i need to learn more japanese for my wife...

[tyebo5]

Wow you guys are alright. Very useful stuff. I was planning on taking some Japanese language classes on base. But after viewing a couple of the links I might not have too.

[DoctorP]

Here is one from the University of Virginia

University of Virginia Kanji Learning site (http://faculty.virginia.edu/nihongo/kanji/)
I like this one because it has an audio section that allows you to listen, then pick the correct phrase by clicking on a radial button. Then you can grade yourself.

If no one has any objections, I would like to modify Muku's original post to include the added links. I think it would be best to keep all of the links with the original post instead of people having to go through the entire thread.

[TheNoNamedOne]

No objection.

[DoctorP]

This one has to be my favorite site for kanji:

http://www.kanjisite.com/index.html

You can spend a lot of time on this one easily!

[paris]

www.hesjapanese.com
:star:


This site is lovely and fantastic :) !

:thumbup1:

[atb35]

Im taking a class through UMUC right now, and it is good and all, but it is really hard to learn this stuff without help. Would be nice to have people to actually talk to, and ask about. Those with japanese GF/wives are far better off. Every little bit helps though...thanks.

[Kitty Meow]

Thanks for sharing! This will help me alot.

[pwhouck]

hey thanks

[CPOCPO]

Aren't there free Rosetta Stones lanuage courses for all Military and dependants on AKO?

Is there a Japanese version?

[DJ Tak]

http://www.accessjapanese.com/hiragana.html

The direct link takes you to a hiragana chart that when clicked on gives you the correct pronunciation.

[DoctorP]

Time to bump up this old thread...just for the heck of it.

[TheLastDon]

This is a fun site

http://www.easyjapanese.org/index.html

[DoctorP]

This is a fun site

http://www.easyjapanese.org/index.html

been to it before.

[TheLastDon]

been to it before.

I didn't see it on this thread.

[DoctorP]

I didn't see it on this thread.

because it wasn't here.