STUDY RESOURCES

• LISTENING

  • Genki 3rd Edition Audio

  • ATLJapanese Immersive Audio Environment Files - Ten hours of short audio files for listening practice. Sources include podcasts, vlogs, anime, dorama, audiobooks, documentaries, and Genki listening exercises. Two levels of difficulty to choose from.

  • News in Slow Japanese - News stories read at both normal and reduced speed.

  • AQ Stream - Watch multiple Japanese television channels live as well as video feed from Shibuya Crossing and Tokyo Tower.

  • Animelon - Stream anime with Japanese and English subtitles. Designed for language learning.

  • Sites to stream Dorama

    • Drama Cool

    • Rare Doramas

  • SuperNative - Fun listening skills training app that quizzes you using short clips from dorama and anime.

    • Alternative - Delvin Language

  • Bilingual News - Podcast hosted by an English native and a Japanese native.

  • Spotify Playlists

    • 日本の音楽 - ATLJapanese playlist. Spans many genres. Mostly lyrical and great for listening practice. Some music is instrumental or by Western artists about Japan.

    • 元気 - Student collaborative playlist. Feel free to join other ATLJapanese students and share Japanese music you’ve discovered.

  • NHK Historical Testimonies. Includes Scripts.

  • NHK Ten Minute Box - Short videos on Japanese history. Includes scripts.

• Reading

  • ATLJapanese Tadoku List

  • Watanoshii - Collection of short articles sorted by difficulty (N5-N3). Also includes audio and word definitions.

  • NHK Easy News - Daily news stories written for ~N3-N2 level of kanji and vocab knowledge.

  • Japan Foundation Graded Readers

  • USC Graded Readers

• Grammar

  • Dictionary of Japanese Grammar - Online version of the excellent three volume series of grammar books, containing explanations and example sentences. Ctrl+F to search for your grammar point or use table of contents.

    • Backup

  • Conjugation and Grammar Drills

  • Maggie Sensei - Very in depth searchable grammar explanations often taught in a humorous way.

  • Tae Kim’s Grammar Guide - The standard index for non-textbook Japanese learners.

• kanji

  • Remember the Kanji - PDF version of the fourth edition of James Heisig’s Remember the Kanji. Useful for looking up explanations for the primitives.

• Kana

  • Hiragana Study Guide - Tofugu’s guide with info, pronunciations, mnemonics, and more

  • Katakana Study Guide - Same as above for katakana

  • Real Kana - Great website to randomly test your knowledge of all kana. You can study kana by column or all at once.

• Community

  • r/LearnJapanese - The largest Japanese learning community on the internet.

  • Lang-8 - Write Japanese journal entries online and have them corrected by multiple native speakers.

  • italki - For a small fee, have a practice conversation session with a native speaker over Skype.

  • Discord - A master list of foreign language learning Discord servers. Search on the page for Japanese related servers.

  • Hello Talk - App for making Japanese-native friends to talk and text with.

• Learning tools

  • Rikai - plugin for Chrome that shows a dictionary entry for words you hover over. Also available for Safari and Firefox.

  • Voracious - Video player designed for language learning with onboard dictionary.

  • Anki - Powerful flashcard program that utilizes spaced-repetition.

  • Japanese Keyboard Install Guide - Includes Mac, PC, iPhone, & Android.

  • Subs2srs - Amazing tool for automatically converting subtitle files into Anki flashcards.

  • JA-JA Dictionaries

    • Yahoo, Sanseido

    • Slang Dictionary

  • JA-EN Dictionaries

    • Jisho.org - The one and only. Incredibly useful and versatile.

    • Imiwa - The best available dictionary for Apple devices.

    • Aedict - The best available dictionary for Android devices.

    • Slang Dictionary

  MISCELLANEOUS Resources

  • Japanese Native Materials Difficulty Guides

    • Japanese Level Up - Community-sourced difficulty ratings for anime, manga, dorama, books, video games, and visual novels.

    • Wakarukana - Includes sample excerpts to test how difficulty a piece of media will be for you. Remember that if you are trying to learn new vocab/grammar the media should be slightly above your level.

    • Visual Novel Difficulty Guide

    • Kitsunekko - Massive index of Japanese language subtitles for anime and movies. Does not contain said movies.

    • ATLJapanese Dual Subtitles (Simultaneous English and Japanese)

      • Tonari no totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) - Simply play your video file, and then drag and drop the subtitle file (.ass) into your player. Try to cover up the English by draping a piece of paper over your computer.

  • JLPT Practice Tests - Contain tests, answers, practice test form, listening files, and listening scripts for all levels.

    • Old Sample Test

    • New Sample Test

  • Vocabulary Size Test - Fun but take with a grain of salt.

  • Matt vs Japan - Excellent Youtube channel with videos discussing many aspects of Japanese language study and how to implement more efficient study techniques.

TRAVEL RESOURCES

• GUIDE MAPS

  • ATLJapanese Tokyo Guide Map - Contains all my suggestions on food, shopping, etc, as well as interesting secret spots and easily accessible rooftops for great photo ops.

  • Reddit's Tokyo Guide Map - A map created by the online forum Reddit, containing many sights, points of interest, etc.