If you’re super cool and observant, you may have noticed that the menu bar at the top of the site has changed. That’s because we’ve cleaned up the site a bit, updated the ancient About page, cut down on categories for articles and most importantly, added a new page to the site – Japanese Resources!

Ever since last year when Koichi wrote a post about the 100 Best Japanese Learning Resources, it’s been one of our most popular posts. There are tons of people out there who are looking to teach themselves Japanese, and we’ve always tried to help out by coming up with a list of our very favorite textbooks, websites and apps.

However, there were a few problems with that post. 100 is a lot of resources to look through and because of that, we weren’t really able to review each one in-depth. That’s why we’re proud to announce the launch of our Japanese Resources page.

We’ve taken the best of the best of our 100 best resources and added better reviews for each resource. Each review has lists of pros and cons, a summary, some opinions, pictures, and a final word on the resources itself. This page is (as the techy people would put it) a minimum viable product, meaning we want to get it out there, get a response, and figure out how to make it better. We’ll be adding new resources to it (hopefully) on a weekly-ish basis, making edits and things change, and trying to get it to be a super useful place for Japanese beginners to figure out what it is they want to use to start learning Japanese (choice is tough, brosef).

So what are you waiting for? Check it out! We’ve also set it up so you can “Like” the resources you personally like the best – We’re hoping it’s a good way to indicate what resources make people happy (without anyone taking advantage of some kind of polling features, since most people don’t have a hundred Facebook accounts). So, show us what resources are your favorite too by hitting “Like.”

[button link="http://www.tofugu.com/japanese-resources/"]Visit the Japanese Resources Page →[/button]

As mentioned before, we’ll be adding probably one or two new resources to the page each week (we know that as is this page doesn’t cover every good/popular Japanese resource out there). We’re making a huge list of future Japanese Resources, so if you have suggestions on what to add, too, let us know.

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