Japanese Language Resources

waw, guys thanks a lot! I use livemocha as well and youtube as reference(as well as dramas and anime for pronunciation) , but I found a lot of great information in here, so i'm in need to say arigato gozaimasu to all of you that posted and especially to Ladyfaile for creating this thread!!! :) Off to study, thanks again!

I use these and they're ALL FREE.

~ http://www.livemocha.com/ The lessons work better if you read the tips natives and other learners write on the side.

~ http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/menu.htm If you do the Free email subscription he will send you extra tips and answer questions about Japan and Japanese.

Helpful youtube channels:
~ http://www.youtube.com/user/japanesepod101
~ http://www.youtube.com/user/Ciaela
~ http://www.youtube.com/user/GenkiJapanNet
~ http://www.youtube.com/user/komori841
~http://www.youtube.com/user/speekit

Helpful Tumblr blogs
~ http://nihonglish.tumblr.com/
~ http://japanlove.tumblr.com/
~ http://****yeahnativejapanese.tumblr.com/

This song is also catchy and helpful.

it does look very helpful, and the forums seem pretty active which could be helpful in itself. thanks ^_^

I've got an android phone now, and there are quite a few android apps out there! I have found 2 so far that seem really useful. "Japanese 1" free android app for studying jlpt n5 haven't played with this one too much yet... it's got the basic hiragana and katakana lessons, but also numbers, greetings, and some basic vocab in the "let's start" section, and then kanji, grammar, particles, and vocab in the jlpt n5 section. they have a Japanese 2 app also which i haven't downloaded yet this app requires internet to run it's like flashcards with multiple choices, if you're into that sort of thing :P the other app which I've been using and finding really helpful is "conjugation" free android app does not require internet connection to run is split up into "forms", it will give you a word in kanji and hiragana and english, you get multiple choices to select the proper conjugation for the given form. i find i end up just guessing and it doesn't help me understand the forms on its own, but I find if I go back through Tae Kim's guide and find the lesson on that given form and review it first so the rules are fresh in my memory, then the conjugation app makes more sense and I'm able to think and choose the right answers without just guessing. might help to pick up a bit of vocab and kanji at the same time. some of the words seem to be ones that I wouldn't use very often in a conversation but it really helps to see and use the forms outside of Tae Kim's guide which is really text-book like (ie: dull) and therefore easy to skim over some of this stuff without it really sinking in properly. it's one thing to read the rules but if you don't get to practice using them you won't remember. this is a great app to use along side a guide or textbook

kana invaders!
like the old space invaders game but you type the romaji of the kana as they fall to shoot them. kinda fun. has hiragana and katakana version
http://learnjapanesepod.com/kana-invaders/index.html
the site has some other stuff too, like podcasts, but it looks like it's only really worth it with a full membership which costs money. there is a free trial membership option but you don't get much

some useful Japanese phrases
site has other resources I haven't checked out yet also
http://www.learn-hiragana-katakana.com/japanese-phrases/

Awsome thread,

I too have some sites and android apps i can recommend

Apps:
Obenkyo
I wondered why nobody has mentioned it yet. This app is awesome. It has a learning site and a test mode. Obenkyo covers Hiragana, Katakana, Numbers, Kanji (sortet by school level and jlpt including a dictionary and stroke order) vocabulary, patikel, and grammar. The app is regulary updated. The only thing that doesn't work for me is the writing test. My fingers won't fit their neat demands. But the rest is great.

Kanji recognizer
If you want to find a kanji in a book or magazine or something you can use this app. It also has a test mode. The only problem is they go by stroke order, but if you're used to write kanjis, you should be able to look the right kanji up

http://www.japanesepod101.com/index.php
I believe i haven't seen this site yet. It has tones of material you can learn with. Most of it needs a registration, and for somethings you have to pay. But with the registration you'll get the pdf files and such.

And I have three links for germans:
http://www.din1031.de/verben/?jis=0&load2=ulist
Hilft beim konjugieren von Verben und man kann kanji texte in kana umwandeln lassen (helps with the conjunction of verbs and you can convert kanji texts into kana)

http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/kanji/
german kanji dictionary

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/j/buchtext/Index.htm
Ein komplett digitales Lehrbuch mit Audio (whole digital book with grammar, vocabulary and audio)

Hello:) Just got a question.. Just bear with me, I'm new and inexperience in using livemocha... I'm using it today..And I'm on lesson one...theirs 2 button under the pictures showing.. One is for romanji and the other was for translation... So can anyone tell me how can I change the translation to english? The Romanji was ok..but the translation was in some language I don't know:( Domo Arigatou gozaimas for helping me:)

I know Amazon.co.jp ships overseas, but if you don't want to deal with Amazon for Japanese books and such Kinokuniya has a good selection. I get books from them a lot when Amazon's postage costs start to scare me lol