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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
http://ichi2.net/anki/ - 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
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
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
- http://a2k.aill.org/ – convert aozora texts into pdf
- 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
http://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:

japanese content:audio & video

videocontent: eguri89 eguri89mini cyoshida1231 ARIKEITA113 danceandmelodee kazuch0924 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, 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. Example: https://lang-8.com/769495/journals/153041223049946240981623295625988441134
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