Comments on: Win Japanese Resources By Telling Us Your Favorites

By: Hisuke

Hisuke — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:48:00 +0000

I just realised that these are all haikus. I’m a bit slow…

By: koichi

koichi — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:16:00 +0000

A bunch of folks! We emailed the winners about a week after this article was posted up.

By: Tompe99

Tompe99 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:21:00 +0000

WHO WON???

By: Andy Hong

Andy Hong — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:47:00 +0000

Tae Kim’s Japanese resource is great for polishing up on Japanese grammar. The contents are well-structured: each page contains all the possible forms for a particular grammar construct, so, for example, all the ways of creating the negative form of a word are all listed in one place. This is in contrast to most other resources, that will scatter this information across arbitrary “beginner-intermediate-advanced” categories.

Denshi Jisho is a great springboard to start any search from. It supports romaji input, contains sentence examples, links to other dictionaries and search engines, and also provides search engine plugins for Firefox.

RealKana helped me ace my Hiragana and Katakana tests in university after just 4 hours of use (not in one session, of course).

Rikaichan (and its Chrome port, Rikai-kun) are just so, so easy to use. Hover over any Japanese word or phrase and see its meaning right away. What more can one ask for? Here’s an additional tip: You can use Rikaichan in plain-text documents as well, just open the document using Firefox (by dragging them from Windows Explorer to a Firefox window, for example).

There’s no love to be had for Android users within the resources! I’m personally using these apps:
JED – Japanese-English Dictionary for Android : http://www.umibouzu.com/jed/
AnyMemo – Flashcard learning app : http://anymemo.org/

By: Jalm0905

Jalm0905 — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:05:00 +0000

Oh also Kotoba and Lang-8 are FREE resources. i know everyone loves the word free, so hopefully you’ll use them like I do.

By: Jalm0905

Jalm0905 — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:03:00 +0000

I recommended Kotoba, Lang-8 and Japanese the Manga Way. Kotoba is a great app to have. You can use it on your iPod anywhere you go without WiFi so don’t worry about killing yourself just to find a location with free WiFi like McDonald’s. it’s great for searching various amounts of kanji, including how to right them and their onyomi and kunyomi readings. Lang-8 is perfect for asking native Japanese speakers questions about the language. They will correct your attempts to writing in Japanese and you can help them with whatever language their learning like English. Who doesn’t love helping others? If you don’t, you’re heartless soul. Lastly, Japanese the Manga Way is simply a book that teaches you various concepts in the language of Japanese the Manga Way. I’m sure many of you love to look at pictures or read manga, especially manga about Japanese. It gives you explanations about many topics and you will definitely learn from it.

Email: jalm0905@verizon.net