japanese-revision:

japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

• A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
• A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
• A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar
• Read Real Japanese Fiction
• GENKI: Integrated Elementary Japanese I and II [beginners]
• An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
• Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow
• Tobira (Gateway to advanced Japanese)
• TextFugu [an online textbook]
• Heisig’s Remembering Kanji
• Basic Kanji Book Vol.1
• Kanji in Context
• Shadowing: Let’s Speak Japanese! (Beginner to Intermediate Level)
• Japanese The Manga Way
• Making Out in Japanese [for informal/vulgar language]
• Minimum Essential Politeness: Japanese Honorific

Online and Phone Dictionaries:

• ALC (I use this everyday)
  →Expression encyclopaedia
• Goo dictionary
• Weblio
• WWWJDIC (with audio clips) + for Android phones (incl. handwriting)
• JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
• JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
• Idiomatic Expressions
• Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
• Counters dictionary
• Hovering dictionaries: 
  →Rikaikun for Chrome
  →Rikaichan for Firefox
  →Floating Dictionary for Mac
• Current Affairs dictionary
• Tangorin
• Imiwa? (a dictionary for the iPhone)
• Tagaini Jisho (downloadable for Windows, Mac and Linux)
• Nihongodict (also an app. for iPhone and Android phones)

For kanji.

• Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
• Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
• A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
• Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
• Handwritten kanji search
• WaniKani (reviewed and explained here)

Online reading:

• Hukumusume Fairytales
• 竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)
• 吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)
• Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
• TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
• Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]
• Blue Sky Library (public domain books, explained here)

Manga.

• Free online manga
• Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
• Sound Effects (in manga, etc)

Improving your speaking:

• Japanese pronunciation guide
• Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
• Topics for Language Exchanges.
• Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
• Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)
• My Language Exchange [to find a language partner]
• Japanese Kana (Chrome app)

Listening:

• “Real World” Japanese
• My Kikitori

Reading & Writing practice:

• Lang-8
• Japan-Guide [for getting Japanese penpals]
• Read, Write, Learn: Macaronics
• 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
• Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)
• iTalki [similar to Lang-8]
• 手書きブログ (Blogging by hand)
• ChatPad (Japanese chatroom site)
• Real Kana practice

News:

• NewsWeb Easy
• NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
• Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts and radio:

• JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)
• TBS Radio’s Junk
• TOKYO FM
• CSRA fm(+ App for Android)
• JIN Radio (bilingual)

Radio dramas

• Medicine in Times of Tears
• My Home, My Life
• The Infirmary for 17-year-olds

YouTube:

• Afternoon Hirusagari
• Jet Daisuke
• バイリンガール英会話
• Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)
• Real Japanese Studio
• Japancast
• Tofugu
• Japanese Let’s Play gamers
• サイエンスチャネル
• TheWannabeBC
• Gaijin Goombah
• Genki Lessons

Japanese sign language.

• Heartful Power Hideo
• Shuwa Island

TV:

• Japanese subtitles for anime
• KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
• 風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)
• 映画で学ぶ実践英会話

Tumblr:

• Kanji-a-Day
• Holy crap Japanese
• Nihongo ga Suki
• Jumpstart Japanese
• Nihongolog
• Japanese Idioms
• Nadine Nihongo
• That Japan Addict
• ChilliMuffin
• Japanese through Fandom
• F-Yeah Native Japanese
• J-Vocab of the Day
• ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
• Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]
• Kumako365jp
• Japanese Revision (my blog for intermediates)

Those who are studying in Japan

• My Japan Travels (Yokohama National University)
• Mechakuchajan (Osaka University)
• Hola-Itza (Meiji Gakuin)
• The Disaster Chronicles (Toyo University) [wordpress]
• Welcome to Moonside (University of Kitakyushu)

2012 – 2013 exchange students

• Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
• Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
• Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
• Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
• Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)
• Yeonhwa Japan (Chuo University)
• Mago Mago (Ritsumeikan University)
• Marta in Japan (Waseda University)

Working as part of the JET Programme

• A Girl in Japan
• Ramandab in Sapporo-shi
• Ikemasu
• Boukendan desu

Blogging:

• Yaplog
• Ameba

Learning websites:

• JapaneseClass.jp
• The Japanese Page
• JapanesePod101
• Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
• Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
• Maggie Sensei
• Tofugu
• All Japanese All The Time
• Japanese Level Up
• Learning Japanese with Lingualift
• JPLang
• Yes Japan!
• Marugoto: Japanese Language & Culture

Other resources:

• Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
• JLPT Resources
• Top 100 learning resources via Lingualift
• Anki (flashcards for your computer, phone and online)
  →Yomichan (plug-in for Anki)
• Common things said by cashiers
• Quizlet (flashcards)
• DJT and Okra’s pastebins (lots of resources and textbooks for download, etc)
• Japanese.Livejournal (including tips on using IME)
• Human Japanese (for PC and phones, excl. Linux)
• Study Groups
• Help with Japanese via StackExchange

I’ve added even more to the list since I first posted this and am continuing to add new things to it. So, I thought I’d re-post it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!