Post by trunklayer on Jun 21, 2016 16:37:51 GMT
Japanese:
Tofugu Japanese learning links collection
My favorite links from there are:
TextFugu - I find it great for learning grammar; first season is free.
WaniKani - I find it great for learning kanji; first three levels are free.
NHK Easy News - great free resource that gets constantly updated. It's Japanese news adapted for beginners. Very interesting and quite easy to read. They are also voiced, and although they seem to use a speech synthesizer for voicing, it seems to be quite well made.
Graded Readers levels 0-4 - there's not too much of them, but all of them are free. Level zero is the easiest and is intended for complete beginners.
Erin’s Challenge - very interesting site; as far as I know, it's free.
Lang-8 - great site for language exchange. upon registration you indicate your native language and the language you study and the site automatically finds you people in opposite situation (i. e. native speakers of the language you are learning, who are learning your native language). After that, everyone starts a sort of web log using the language he/she studies and the native speakers correct his/her entries (while he/she corrects their entries in turn). It's free to use.
Jisho - the best free online Japanese dictionary I know.
Anime lyrics great site that I've recently discovered. You can listen openings and endings from your favorite anime there and read the lyrics. Requires flash player.
Personal WaniKani progress analyzer - A great app that shows you your statistics like how much time you've spent for each level, average amount of days per level, estimated date of reaching level 60 and many more. It requires your Public API Key that you can get on WaniKani settings page (you can get there by clicking on your WaniKani avatar and choosing settings).
Basic grammar cheatsheet
Satori Reader Beta - I once saw a thread (on WaniKani) that was called "The Satori Reader Beta is crazy good!" To be honest, I didn't believe it at first, but after having tried it myself I must admit that the author of that thread has a good point. It's a very good app for reading and listening Japanese texts. You can click on every word to see translation, pronounciation and, in many cases, a note, explaining why this particular word is used there in this particular form. There is quite a lot of interesting texts there. It's still in closed beta state though, so getting an account isn't easy... I hope it changes soon.
Wanikani Discord Community - The name is a bit misleading. It's not a site dedicated to spread discord and misunderstandings in WaniKani Community. It's just a WaniKani Community on the popular service "Discord". And quite a good one, I might add. They are also doing Genki lessons in voice chat from time to time - I participated in one and found it quite fun and informative. You should definitely visit it, even if you are not a WaniKani member.
English:
Oxford Dictionary - A very good dictionary. It also has lots of interesting articles about English.
Urban Dictionary - Use this one when dealing with slang. If you see a word like "Sammich" and don't know what it means - go to Urban dictionary. I must warn you though that some slang terms mean quite rude or unpleasant things (not "Sammich", though - this one is really yummy).
Free rice - great synonym quiz site. You are given an English word and a list of other English words. Your task is to choose one that is a synonym for this word. What's more, for each right answer, 10 grains of rice will be donated to the World Food Programme to end hunger. Only please turn off your Ad blocker on that site, because the rice is bought with the money from those ads.
Tofugu Japanese learning links collection
My favorite links from there are:
TextFugu - I find it great for learning grammar; first season is free.
WaniKani - I find it great for learning kanji; first three levels are free.
NHK Easy News - great free resource that gets constantly updated. It's Japanese news adapted for beginners. Very interesting and quite easy to read. They are also voiced, and although they seem to use a speech synthesizer for voicing, it seems to be quite well made.
Graded Readers levels 0-4 - there's not too much of them, but all of them are free. Level zero is the easiest and is intended for complete beginners.
Erin’s Challenge - very interesting site; as far as I know, it's free.
Lang-8 - great site for language exchange. upon registration you indicate your native language and the language you study and the site automatically finds you people in opposite situation (i. e. native speakers of the language you are learning, who are learning your native language). After that, everyone starts a sort of web log using the language he/she studies and the native speakers correct his/her entries (while he/she corrects their entries in turn). It's free to use.
Jisho - the best free online Japanese dictionary I know.
Anime lyrics great site that I've recently discovered. You can listen openings and endings from your favorite anime there and read the lyrics. Requires flash player.
Personal WaniKani progress analyzer - A great app that shows you your statistics like how much time you've spent for each level, average amount of days per level, estimated date of reaching level 60 and many more. It requires your Public API Key that you can get on WaniKani settings page (you can get there by clicking on your WaniKani avatar and choosing settings).
Basic grammar cheatsheet
Satori Reader Beta - I once saw a thread (on WaniKani) that was called "The Satori Reader Beta is crazy good!" To be honest, I didn't believe it at first, but after having tried it myself I must admit that the author of that thread has a good point. It's a very good app for reading and listening Japanese texts. You can click on every word to see translation, pronounciation and, in many cases, a note, explaining why this particular word is used there in this particular form. There is quite a lot of interesting texts there. It's still in closed beta state though, so getting an account isn't easy... I hope it changes soon.
Wanikani Discord Community - The name is a bit misleading. It's not a site dedicated to spread discord and misunderstandings in WaniKani Community. It's just a WaniKani Community on the popular service "Discord". And quite a good one, I might add. They are also doing Genki lessons in voice chat from time to time - I participated in one and found it quite fun and informative. You should definitely visit it, even if you are not a WaniKani member.
English:
Oxford Dictionary - A very good dictionary. It also has lots of interesting articles about English.
Urban Dictionary - Use this one when dealing with slang. If you see a word like "Sammich" and don't know what it means - go to Urban dictionary. I must warn you though that some slang terms mean quite rude or unpleasant things (not "Sammich", though - this one is really yummy).
Free rice - great synonym quiz site. You are given an English word and a list of other English words. Your task is to choose one that is a synonym for this word. What's more, for each right answer, 10 grains of rice will be donated to the World Food Programme to end hunger. Only please turn off your Ad blocker on that site, because the rice is bought with the money from those ads.