Resources marked with > are used, have been used, or are actively advocated in t he threads.

This applies for everything in the [Necessities] section. TO WRITE IN JAPANESE, INSTALL THE GOOGLE IME. Short and sweet Google IME How-To: Click the big, blue button Click the LEFT button (the check mark is a "send usage statistics to google" thing) After a while, IME is installed. Control Panel -> Clock, Language and Region -> Change keyboards or other inpu t methods Change keyboards: If you only use English and Japanese, remove all input lang uages. Add Japanese (Japan) -> Keyboard -> Google Japanese Input To switch between romaji (English keyboard) and hiragana/katakana, use alt+` (just above tab key) More on this in the guide, if you're interested. [Necessities] >Hiragana & Katakana: http://www.realkana.com/ >Kanji: http://kanjidamage.com/ >Japanese IME: http://www.google.com/intl/ja/ime/ Anki Flashcards: http://ankisrs.net/ >Genki Tae Kim Japanese: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar http://www.memrise.com/set/10044565/daily-japanese-3/ This memrise course is updated and should contain all of the kanji we have done. http://www.mediafire.com/?dvctnzmvk7trvlu - Collection of images from the thread s. This link should contain around a 1900 or so kanji. A few images may or may n ot be missing. [Websites] Introductory Lessons: https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/lesson01/basic/index.html (video + script) http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/columns/0002/ (column of short Japanese lessons) http://learningjapanesewithanonymous.blogspot.com/ http://www.coscom.co.jp/ http://www.imabi.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_grammar [Hiragana & Katakana] http://www.realkana.com/ http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~if2n-szk/mnemonics.html http://www.canyouchopstick.com/2011/01/katakana-mnemonic/ http://kana.icann.se/ *http://www.guidetojapanese.org/pdf/hiragana_trace_sheet.pdf *http://www.mediafire.com/?9nwfk83g09yo4xo http://nihonshock.com/2010/02/japanese-cheat-sheet-2/ http://learnjapanesepod.com/kana-invaders/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Table_hiragana.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Table_katakana.svg [Grammar] http://www.guidetojapanese.org/ http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/j_gram_summ.html http://www.jekai.org/ http://www.geocities.jp/niwasaburoo/index.html - extremely well-written book on

Japanese grammar, written in Japanese http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese/Grammar http://kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net/Japanese/index.html http://www.jgram.org/ - jgram has not updated to the new JLPT levels yet, but th e grammar hasn't changed. http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/skills/grammar/ http://it.scribd.com/doc/6579312/A-Dictionary-of-Japanese-Particles http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~tmath/home/index.htm Yookouso! http://www.mediafire.com/?rewg4tx4wte4bxv udp://tracker.openbittorre nt.com:80 [Helpful Forums]: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/forum/ http://thejapanesepage.com/ [Kanji] http://kanjidamage.com/ http://kanji.koohii.com/learnmore http://kanji.sljfaq.org/ - Look up kanji through stroke order. http://www.jlpt-kanji.com/ http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ik2r-myr/kanji/listjouyou_en.htm http://kakijun.main.jp/ (stroke order) http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/SortedByKanji2THEnglish?OpenView (stroke order) http://kanji.sljfaq.org/kanjivg/makepng-noscript.cgi?kanji=%E9%9D%A2&s=4&l=1 (st roke order) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuzSRjg-3K_vck9HZmp5YmVkMXJHMDRpMmU 2UzFWVkE#gid=0 - A list of the 3622 most common Kanji characters found in the Ja panese Wikipedia, along with their frequencies. [Listening Practice] http://www.njuku.com/ http://jclab.wordpress.com/ http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/minwa/ http://thejapanesepage.com/ (Rosetta Stone) [Online Dictionaries/Thesauruses] http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/ http://dic.nicovideo.jp/ http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/ http://tangorin.com/ http://www.alc.co.jp/ - Example sentences http://zokugo-dict.com/ (general slang) http://www.geocities.jp/tomomi965/index2.html (for idioms/set phrases) http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/ http://www.media-k.co.jp/jiten/ (for 2ch slang/memes/catch phrases) http://dbms.kokken.go.jp/nknet/Onomatope/category.html (onomatopoeia) http://www.rondely.com/zakkaya/dic5/index.htm (onomatopoeia) http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/s_kaydic?ctg_in=4 (onomatopoeia) http://gogen-allguide.com/ (word etymology) http://kanji.reader.bz/ (kanji readings, works for names too) http://www016.upp.so-net.ne.jp/hougenn/ (for different Japanese dialects) [Other] http://lang-8.com/ - (Practice Japanese by writing short passages, receive corre ctions from native Japanese speakers) http://visualnovelaer.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/how-to-read-visual-novels-in-japa nese-in-2-years-time-step-by-step-guide-%E2%80%95-learn-to-read-through-vn-or-an

ime/ http://www.memrise.com/ - a good (and somewhat amusing) way of learning kana and kanji. http://japanese-speedtest.10fastfingers.com/ >http://www.google.com/intl/ja/ime/ - Google's Japanese IME http://lazunin.com/ http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/ - Don't go anywhere without it. https://github.com/dollar/kanjicaptcha ttp://www.start-point.net/nihontizu/ - Prefecture Names http://iteslj.org/v/j/ http://www.offbeatband.com/2010/12/the-most-commonly-used-japanese-words-by-freq uency/ http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdicinf.html#code_tag - Info on tags that rikai* uses. http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm - Interesting article on learning. http://www.mediafire.com/?dckt6ix32l93f35 - Collection of the Nihonshock cheatsh eets in pdf format. http://kanjitomo.com/ - KanjiTomo is a program for identifying Japanese characters from images http://lapapps.net/ - Kanji for Games http://sukebei.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=23370 - JapanesePod [Smartphone Apps] Obenkyo http://www.realkana.com/ http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar Aedict - Japanese to English dictionary Kanji Recognizer [Youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFgyUsCwe0 - Learn Japanese with Yuruyuri https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9987A659670D60E0 - Namasensei, good moti vational lessons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrMkJAzbWQc - Japanese Alphabet Song [Reading and/or Watching] Yotsuba&! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Agk2IH0ZXhn7dDNmSW1BVFU5dVgyOHkzWjU4 b2l2dkE&pli=1 >A reading list made by a kind anon from these threads, and for these threads. A fter you get done reading something be sure to add it in here. http://www.portals.co.jp/isopp/ http://www.mediafire.com/?93atzwak7dx47- a Mediafire of documents and raw manga to get you started with reading http://chokochoko.wordpress.com/the-great-library/ http://www.j-comi.jp/ >A Japanese website that provides free (older) manga to read. Mostly tons of old stuff, but it has the entire set of Love Hina (http://www.j-comi.jp/book/comic/ 1) volumes, which is a pretty entertaining series. http://www.jcafe24.net/index.php >Another source for manga. You have to set up an account and make a post on one of their forums before you can access the Winny Club, which is where the raw man ga is. http://kitsunekko.net/subtitles/japanese/ >Japanese subtitles for a ton of different anime shows. The only problem is that some of the subs seemed to be timed wrong when used with common raws (Ex: the J apanese subs are set for a 24 minute episode, while the raw is 22 minutes). So y ou might have to open them up with a subtitle editor and change the times. Regar dless, you can usually use these subs with the anime you already have, just disa ble English subs and load the Japanese subs. For the anime subs, it's worth look

ing into using a text hooker to extract the text to make it easy to paste into A nki or a dictionary. (Such as AGTH) http://www.raw1st.org/ http://www.portals.co.jp/isopp/ http://rawcs.blogspot.co.il/p/manga-index.html http://www.rawmangaspot.com/ http://www.raw-manga.net/ http://rawscans.com/ http://shareraws.blogspot.co.il/ http://crazy-cake.blogspot.co.il/p/homepage.html http://mangahead.com/ http://www.aozora.gr.jp/ [E-Books (PDF)] Making Sense of Japanese Grammar (2.56 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?d8hvs7jyb0fi156 Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (24 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?c1swbbihl97s77b Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar (29.6 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?7obxdz023iiw3c8 Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar (65.4 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?r61j67rmntthy9u Barron's Japanese Grammar (83 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?31h81oy1jx89e1x Japanese Core Words and Phrases (3.79 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?z1fcbxw4vbnfb2p Japanese Particle Workbook (39.2 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?4c4387dbbg86a43 101 Japanese Idioms (28.4 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?4nub1o40kgdch1o Japanese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar (82.1 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?c3c83or0a5xz2dw 500 Essential Japanese Expressions (29.2 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?lld8lo0nlspy72y Japanese Beyond Words (27.1 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?dcc3yaay9w4fj5c Read Real Japanese (80.5 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?sg2yr34ehldh6ir Oxford Japanese Grammar & Verbs (40.1 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?8xk6v525idpbdb8 JLPT - Teach Yourself Japanese (32.1 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?lpwckercaq3mfiw >Genki I (150.4 MB) >*http://www.mediafire.com/?4dsxbexuv92xvuj Genki I Workbook (28.6 MB)

*http://www.mediafire.com/?orjq8jfja8lj4aq Genki I CDs 1 & 2 (102.1 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?u4ab7xyd2pgi0k7 Genki I CDs 3 & 4 (118.7 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?bjzhrte35es2e4z Genki I CDs 5 & 6 (119.1 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?2apq4wv4j2rs9qu Genki II (162.4 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?a2t5giuv35if4gm Genki II Workbook (128.7 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?mm77vpi9731okst Genki II CDs 1, 2, & 3 (103.5 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?6l55tomt2bnhrqq Genki II CDs 4, 5, & 6 (95.5 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?b0m4063od4ghcfm Genki I & II Answer Key (65.9 MB) *http://www.mediafire.com/?102h82qhflktjdt