Japanese Study Resource List

By | February 19, 2017
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(Note: this list is primarily about Japanese study resources, but near the bottom I’ve added some entries that are related to Japan or sites that I frequent.)

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  1. TreePeony

    Since my comment on the 2nd chapter of Final Days (I commented as Myst), I’ve been looking around your site a bit. I was considering learning Japanese, but was a bit lost as to where to start, so this resources page looks like it’ll be especially helpful. Thank you for this, plus all the other language-study related pages!

    I’d like to ask a question, if that’s okay? I don’t really have the time or the money to learn Japanese from a professional, so I was wondering whether self-study is a viable option. My intentions are purely leisure-oriented, so it’s not like I’m aiming for pro-level knowledge: just enough to be able to understand manga, novels, movies, etc. Is that achievable with self-learning? Or do you think it’d be a waste of time? If it is possible, where should I start: spoken, written, or should they go together?

    I hope it was okay to ask this here. If not, sorry!

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    1. locksleyu Post author

      Hey TreePeony, thanks for the comment.

      I’m glad to hear you are interesting in learning Japanese on your own. Of course I think it’s a viable option, it is been one of my main hobbies for many years now, and one of the main purposes of this site is to help you out on that journey.

      I don’t have too much time now, but to start off with I would just buy a nice text book, and start going through it at a comfortable pace. As you have questions you can ask me any time.

      You can look around, but I heard ‘Genki’ is pretty good.

      Also, check out other articles on my site. You can see they are organized by keywords on the bottom of the page.

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      1. TreePeony

        Thanks for the reply! I’ll take a look at Genki, then. And, of course, the articles here.

        And thank you for the encouragement! Everyone else I heard from who learned Japanese either did it as part of their coursework or were living/working in Japan, so I was growing a bit disheartened.

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  2. Makiko

    Hello, I’m Japanese living in Tokyo and interested in foreign language.
    I think this list is great. Since I’ve been struggling learning English, you seem so easy to learn Japanese, that is great.
    Please keep learning Japanese and I’ll visit this blog again for my English learning.

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    1. locksleyu Post author

      Thanks for the post. Japanese wasn’t really easy for me to learn, it took a lot of hard work over around 20 years (: But I think you can learn English in much shorter time if you try. Good luck!

      If you have any English questions let me know.

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  4. Cb

    Hey, I don’t know if you check this website anymore because you haven’t updated the copyright but I just wanted to say I stumbled across this website while trying to figure out what からの meant and found a useful answer with a great description and actually explained what it meant and why. I’ve been learning Japanese for about 7 months now and hadn’t been able to find a site that had lots of great suggestions and grammar help like yours does. with how much work was clearly put into this website and the detail you go into this website deserves way more than the few visits it has, I will most definitely share this with other people I know are learning Japanese. Thank you for your free services you have provided.

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  5. Alkemisa

    Thank you for the information about the Japanese Study Resource List. This is very useful for our friends in Indonesia.

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  6. Acan

    it turns out that there are a lot of Japanese Study Resource Lists. Complete information, very useful for those who want to study in Japan

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