===== Learning Japanese =====
First thing is learning Hiragana/Katakana and to speak. In my opinion done in the best way with a plain traditional coure, in Munich Tanimura-先生 does this great. Correct spelling and writing cannot be learned from websites/applications yet. But web- and local applications are great to support the learning.
===== Sites helping to learn and understand =====
  * https://iknow.jp/ - nice website with lections for hiragana/katagana/kanji/japanese learning
  * https://www.memrise.com/ - similiar to iknow.jp, but with more contents/vocabulary, but not as nicely curated
  * https://www.realkana.com/ - webapplication for learning hiragana/katagana
  * https://www.japanesepod101.com/ - website teaching Japanese with podcasts and pdfs
  * https://apps.ankiweb.net/ - anki is a full featured application for learning i.e. Japanese, incl. Androidversion
  * https://www.sljfaq.org/ - sci.lang.japan Frequently Asked Questions
  * https://cotoacademy.com/ - Japanese lessons in Tokyo
  * https://www.wanikani.com/ - Kanji learning, via radicals
  * https://bunpro.jp/ - grammar learning site
===== Translation help =====
  * https://translate.google.com - helps translating from/to japanese
  * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10ten-ja-reader/|10 ten reader]] - Firefoxplugin to translate Japanese to English
  * Rikaikun - Google Chromeplugin to translate Japanese to English
  * https://www.deepl.com/translator - new translator, quite good
  * [[https://www.dampfkraft.com/projects/kanji-club.html|Kanji-club]], Kanji lookups based on Kanji parts
===== Japanese content:text =====
  * https://www.aozora.gr.jp/ -- kind of project gutenberg for Japanese texts
    * https://aozoraroudoku.jp/ -- audio reading for many Japanese texts
    * https://www.satokazzz.com/books/ -- overview of aozora books, identifying most popular content
    * https://search.bungomail.com/ -- aozora rankings, also shows length of reading a text
  * https://hukumusume.com/douwa/betu/index.html -- simple japanese texts, also audio
  * https://webnovels.jp/ranking -- a search engine for free Japanese novels. This ranking overview is a good start.
  * News pages:
    * https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/
    * https://www.nikkei.com/
    * https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/
    * https://news.yahoo.co.jp/
    * https://www.asahi.com/
    * https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/column/
    * https://www.nippon.com/ja/
===== japanese content:audio & video =====
  * videocontent: [[https://www.youtube.com/user/eguri89/videos|eguri89]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/eguri89mini/videos| eguri89mini]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/cyoshida1231/videos|cyoshida1231]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ARIKEITA113/videos|ARIKEITA113]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/danceandmelodee|danceandmelodee]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/kazuch0924|kazuch0924]] [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuTNcnGVHRlEJ7uq-X8mfTQ|TV commercials]]

===== Practical Japanese/lessons =====
  * https://www.nihongo-lesson.jp/ -- Skype based lessons, one teacher per student. Doing 1 hour per week.
  * https://www.italki.com/ -- italki is a more generic place to find online language teachers, more languages offered
  * https://preply.com/ -- preply is a platform bringing tutors and students for various languages together, for money
  * https://www.tnvn.jp/ -- community meetings in Tokyo for learning. I wnet to such a group for 3 years.
  * read books, watch tv
  * tandemlearning via Skype, teaching mother language and learning Japanese in exchange
  * lang-8, iknow.jp, memrise, [[https://bilingualnews.libsyn.com/|bilingual news]]

===== My current strategy =====
  * learning new vocabulary: https://iknow.jp/ , memrise
  * https://nihongo-lesson.jp lessons - 1:1 lessons with teacher via skype, 2000円/40min lesson
  * Skype sessions 1:1 with tandem partners, free, one half for helping the other partner + one half where I decide on best usage to learn Japanese
  * writing Japanese texts (i.e. about current topics, politics, culture) and get them corrected. So far on site lang-8, but that is closed now.
  * read business mails, lookup unknown vocabulary
  * follow technical news in Japanese (gigazine.net, engadget.com etc.)
  * listen to バイリンガルニュース podcast ( https://bilingualnews.libsyn.com/ ), when commuting

===== forum links =====
  * https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/wiki/resources
  * https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/