How to Study Japanese: Japanese Tools Online
June 1st, 2008 by Claytonian
I figure a lot of you study Japanese and so could benefit from this video. It contains some of the best things that are free and only an internet connection away. All the things I mentioned in the vid can be found here.
Also, if you know someone that studies Japanese, could you share this with them?
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So what tools do you use to study Japanese outside of these?
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Thanks a bunch Claytonian. I tried to get rikaichan working a few months ago but gave up. Just got it installed now, and you’re right… it’s probably the best Japanese language tool in the net. ^_^
Lately I haven’t found many good Japanese language sites. I use stumbleupon to find japanese stuff, but it’s mostly just flashcards and basic grammar.
http://nihongoperapera.com/dirty-guide-japanese.html This site I found quite good for people who can’t seem to learn Japanese the “conventional” way. It’s quite good to just blast through in one sitting.
I guess that’s it from me.
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the quick and dirty guide has gotten a bit of a facelift; I think it’s been around since the days of usenet.
Wow..you are incredible. Thanks.
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Lang 8 – I found that site a while ago but never got around to using it. Thanks for reminding me, I should give it ago.
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Useful, thanks.
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On a rather unrelated note-
Claytonian, you have a very awesome cat.
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aside from class materials from my jap courses i also listen to japanesepod101. Really good website for conversational japanese and you can also sign up for premium acc. for grammar and indepth japanese program but those cost money.
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kind of in the vid, but yes, agreed
oops, didn’t see that jpod101 already in your video. sorry
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thank you so much, that video is very useful and I appreciate the time taht you put in making it for us. I will be visiting your blog often for the mentioned resources. I will also pass the video along. again, thank you so much!
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Thanks for all the info. Just want to add that I prefer Pop Jisyo (http://www.popjisyo.com) to Rikaichan because you can use it to get popup translations of Japanese text copy-pasted from emails, Word docs, Powerpoint, etc. Unless I’m missing something, Rikaichan works only on text inside web pages.
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Just open the document in Google docs and you’re gold.
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If you wanna practice the signes from Hiragana and Katakana go to this site realy nice in my oppnion didn’t realy saw it on the other site from that guy.. but ty anyway
http://www.realkana.com/
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That was probably the best youtube video i have ever seen (content wise) though it puts spears in my heart to see the video so laggy and so buggy, but that is just a little price for some great info!
Also for linux people there is a program called Kanatest programmed by some polish guys, it can easily be installed in ubuntu, or downloaded from their site. and this is linux only…
Also – it was on time that some of all the Japanese learning / language tools got gathered together, you might consider make a whole new site with all kinds of links and helpful guides for learning Japanese, maybe a forum too, and irc/live chat.
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I just noticed Anki is 100mb! On Mac OS X at least… That’s a bit excessive for a flash card program.
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