yukamina wrote:

I don't think it's been mentioned, but I like this site a lot http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/
It has vocab for all JLPT levels and grammar for JLPT 1 and 2. It can be pretty tough to find more advanced grammar online, so this is good ^_^

Hmm.. As long as you steer clear of those sound files... What is it, an Indian accent?

I found this website: www.speedanki.com

The great thing is that it has simple example sentences for each of the words that are presented. The vocab is sorted according to JLPT level. The only downside is that not all of the JLPT vocab is there.

Last edited by Magnadoodle (2007 November 06, 4:55 pm)

Kangoroo is a nice dictionary app that's quite portable (Windows, Linux, Mac).  I use it on my Zaurus  (SL-C3200) hand-held.

It's located at http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~jan/kangoroo.html .

It uses Jim Breen's EDICT dictionary file.

It has a natural interface to keep track of new words -- you look up a word as you would in any other dictionary, and then mark it with a single click.  It keeps these words in a learnfile -- which is just a text-file, meaning other tools can easily parse it and use it.

What I do is take my Zaurus whenever I go out and note every unknown Japanese word I come across while studying.  When I come home, I move the learn-file across to my desktop, where I parse it and bulk import it into Anki.  That way, I get words into my review set as soon as possible with a small amount of effort (obviously, you have to spend a bit of time on the word, but that's a different story).  It's also a good way to make sure I don't miss any important words.

Whenever I'm learning at home, I just use it on the desktop -- it's virtually identical across all environments.

If anyone is interested in the scripts, or more info, throw me a message.

I haven't seen it mentioned on these forums, so I thought I'd give it a plug.  Apologies if I've missed something.

Misha

For those in the US who want to save on shipping (because Amazon.co.jp shipping to the US is totally brutal these days), here are yesasia.com's links for a couple of these books:

They have A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar for a bit cheaper than Amazon:
http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/c … 003921715/

Here's a link to the Shirakawa Shizuka book:
http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/c … 003547302/

I just did a search for both books based on their ISBN.

Another link I'll recommend for finding books for the cheapest is:
http://www.addall.com
It searches across a bunch of different online book stores for the best price, including shipping, and you can search by ISBN as well.

yea, the URL has changed on that one. if you could update it to: http://www.nihongo2.com/dictionary/index.cgi

yorks

timcampbell wrote:

If you want to watch Japanese movies, anime, music videos or television dramas, there's a ton of free stuff at http://www.crunchyroll.com It's great for the beginner because everything has english subtitles, but for the advanced student you can ignore them. The site is dedicated to Asian media, so students of Chinese and Korean will find it of interest as well.

Good website. Thanks!

I like a lot Nico Nico Douga, it is like the japanese youtube. You must be registered to watch videos and have interesting stuff.

gdaxeman wrote:

My essential resource is the Kanji Stroke Order font:
http://www.users.waitrose.com/~potato/
It's a computer font that shows the stroke order of the kanji (and also kana, roman letters and numbers).

I use this font, too, but beware. There are a whole bunch of mistakes in this font even for just the Rtk1 kanji.

I know these books get a lot of criticisms for their use of romaji, not having much vocab and for being a bit old, but I think Mari Noda and Eleanor Harz Jorden's Japanese: The Spoken Language (Volumes 1, 2 and 3) are wonderfully thorough and effective when it comes to learning grammar used in spoken Japanese (both in the sense that you can analyze it and use it naturally) , particularly if you follow the method the whole way through but also if you use it as a grammar reference (though lessons build upon each other, so sometimes you do have to look back for explanations). The accompanying sound files can be downloaded for free at Ohio State's language lab website. Even if you don't get the books, the drills in each lesson can be useful.

As for both A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar and A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar, if you're possibly going to Japan anytime soon, wait until you get there to buy them. The first one in particular in much cheaper there.

Last edited by Okonomiyaki (2008 January 27, 11:29 pm)

I used to listen to the the audio blog (it comes with transcripts which is nice). Everything else I found to have too much English. Unfortunately the audio blogs are all fairly short...

xaarg wrote:

gdaxeman wrote:

My essential resource is the Kanji Stroke Order font:
http://www.users.waitrose.com/~potato/
It's a computer font that shows the stroke order of the kanji (and also kana, roman letters and numbers).

I use this font, too, but beware. There are a whole bunch of mistakes in this font even for just the Rtk1 kanji.

if you send errors to the maintainer (mail[at]nihilist.org.uk) he'll fix them in the next version of the font and let you know when it's released

Hello, world!

Long time no see...   I'm here for a shameless plug: I've written my very first Palm software, called "Palm TaCo". It allows you to search the Tanaka Corpus phrases on your Palm device. I believe it's a good source of Japanese material, and best of all, it's free! You can get more information about it here: http://palmtaco.sourceforge.net/

[]s!

Okonomiyaki wrote:

I know these books get a lot of criticisms for their use of romaji, not having much vocab and for being a bit old, but I think Mari Noda and Eleanor Harz Jorden's Japanese: The Spoken Language (Volumes 1, 2 and 3) are wonderfully thorough and effective when it comes to learning grammar used in spoken Japanese (both in the sense that you can analyze it and use it naturally) , particularly if you follow the method the whole way through but also if you use it as a grammar reference (though lessons build upon each other, so sometimes you do have to look back for explanations). The accompanying sound files can be downloaded for free at Ohio State's language lab website. Even if you don't get the books, the drills in each lesson can be useful.

I just tried to download these files but the mp3s are not available.  Does anyone have them and want to share them?

Just thought I'd throw up this list of podcasts and audio sites.  I made this post for the sentences forum at  http://ajatt.pseudosphere.net/index.php  so give it some love too.

So if you need some audio to go with your one million sentences, here are some sites.  I don't really remember what's on them all, just see what you like.

http://oda999.tea-nifty.com/kokoro/

A Japanese Voiceblog portal.
http://www.voiceblog.jp/

Advanced Japanese listening.
http://www.voiceblog.jp/japaneselistening/

The Breaking into Japanese Literature book's audio of the stories.  For example, Rashomon etc.
http://www.speaking-japanese.com/breaking/index.html

Japanese Classical Literature at Bedtime.
http://eloise.cocolog-nifty.com/rodoku/

Japanese Lessons.
http://learn-japanese.podomatic.com/

Bakusho Mondai's JUNK comedy podcasts.
http://www.tbsradio.jp/bakusho/rss.xml

Stories with scripts.
http://learnjapanese.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/

More Lessons.
http://japancast.net/category/podcasts/

More Lessons again.
http://learnjapanesepod.com/newsite/ind … ;Itemid=41

Annoying lessons here.
http://www.japanesepod101.com/category/ … r-lessons/

Video Lessons.
http://www.kjls.or.jp/podcast/classes/l … ssons.html

Stories with scripts again.
http://www.njuku.com/

Nippon voiceblog, great themed articles with scripts, about Japanese stuff.
http://www.voiceblog.jp/nippon/

Old Japanese stories and songs.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Gaien/7211/

Streaming Japanese Radio Stations.
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/na … amp;go.y=4

NHK Podcasts.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/r … index.html

TBS culture podcasts.
http://www.tbsradio.jp/life/

Good Job podcasts.
http://www.news24.jp/podCast/rss_jobdiscovery.xml

That's it.

Last edited by phauna (2008 September 10, 3:26 am)