Japanese Learning Resources

This repository serves the purpose of sharing reources that i use to learn Japanese so all of my personal recomendations can be in one place and not scattered on the internet in replies to people

You do not have to follow the resources in this list in any particular order, it is best to tailor your learning experience to yourself and use these resources in any order. These are only suggestions so you dont have to use them if you dont want to but they are the best resources i have found in my Japanese Learning journey that have worked for me so i wanted to share them in the hopes that others can find good guides to teach them Japanese without browsing the internet to try and find resources on their own

Document Index:

General:
Reading & Writing:
Speaking & Listening:

General:

Jumping off point / Starting Point

Below are some resources which i believe are a good starting point to get into japanese as an absolute beginner

Tofugu's Hiragana Page
Tofugu's Katakana Page

I now recomend starting genki and and following its structure after learning hiragana and katakana and looking at the morg.systems resource as a general guide on what to look for when learning Japanese

Morg System's Japanese Learning Loop

Morg System's Japanese Page

Reading & Writing:

Genki & Quartet

Id also recomend Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese and Quartet Intermediate Japanese Across the Four Language Skills

Genki and quartet are not free as you have to purchase them

Online Japanese Dictionaries

JPDB

Japanese Scentence Structure

Below are some resources explaining Japanese scentence structure

8020 Japanese's blog post explaining japanese scentence structure

direct links to PDF's on that page so you dont have to enter your email address:

Hiragana Version: https://d81pp4ybbpmjf.cloudfront.net/80-20-Japanese_Sentence-Structure-Cheat-Sheet_A4-hiragana.pdf

Romaji Version: https://d81pp4ybbpmjf.cloudfront.net/80-20-Japanese_Sentence-Structure-Cheat-Sheet_A4-romaji.pdf

Japanese Grammer Guides

I'd know recomend learning grammer from genki over sakubi because i personally find it easier to follow genki over sakubi

Sakubi: Yesterday's Grammar Guide

Speaking & Listening:

Mirroring resources

What is mirroring ?: mirroring in language learning is basically listening to a native speaker of the language you are learning and trying to replicate them as best as possible

Youglish Japanese
^{Youglish is a website that will allow you to search for words said in youtube videos in any language the website supports, in this case you are going to use it for Japanese specifically}

Pitch Accent

• Dogen's phonetic's course which is found on his patreon

  this is a paid resource and is not free but id absolutly recomend it if you can afford it, I'd also recomend you download all the videos if you can