# Study Japanese 101

> A curated Japanese resource guide for adult beginners and intermediate learners. Choose the next useful tool by study job, level, effort, and fit.

Study Japanese 101 is an editorial resource guide for adult beginner and intermediate Japanese learners. It organizes tools by study job, level, setup, pricing, and fit. It does not publish fake rankings or invented scores.

Inku is made and operated by the Study Japanese 101 team. It appears first where relevant. Recommendation copy still names limits and alternatives.

## Core pages

- [Home](https://studyjapanese101.com/): Start by study job.
- [All resources](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources): Full maintained library.
- [Methodology](https://studyjapanese101.com/methodology): How resources are evaluated.
- [Disclosures](https://studyjapanese101.com/disclosures): Ownership and outbound-link policy.
- [About](https://studyjapanese101.com/about): Who publishes the site.

## Categories

- [Japanese dictionary resources](https://studyjapanese101.com/categories/dictionaries): Choose a Japanese dictionary by whether you need a search box or hover lookup inside a page.
- [Japanese flashcard and SRS resources](https://studyjapanese101.com/categories/flashcards-srs): Compare Japanese review tools by level, setup, platform, and what you need to remember.
- [Japanese grammar resources](https://studyjapanese101.com/categories/grammar): Choose a Japanese grammar tool by whether you need explanations, retrieval practice, or a full course.
- [Japanese kanji resources](https://studyjapanese101.com/categories/kanji): Choose a kanji path by how much sequence and mnemonic support you want, and what you will read beside it.
- [Japanese listening resources](https://studyjapanese101.com/categories/listening): Choose Japanese listening practice by how much English support, lesson structure, and ear-training you want.
- [Japanese reading resources](https://studyjapanese101.com/categories/reading): Find Japanese reading practice by how much annotation, audio, and difficulty control you need.
- [Japanese speaking resources](https://studyjapanese101.com/categories/speaking): Choose Japanese speaking practice by whether you need a tutor, an exchange partner, or just a place to send voice notes.
- [Japanese textbooks and courses](https://studyjapanese101.com/categories/textbooks-courses): Compare structured Japanese courses by cost, audio, and whether you will actually do the exercises.

## Resource profiles

- [Anki](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/anki): A programmable review system for cards you create, import, or mine.
- [Bunpro](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/bunpro): Typed grammar and vocabulary reviews inside changing sentence prompts.
- [Genki](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/genki): A beginner textbook series covering the four skills, with audio and a workbook.
- [HelloTalk](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/hellotalk): A mobile language-exchange app for text, voice, and corrections.
- [Inku](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/inku): A guided spaced-review companion for Japanese vocabulary and kanji.
- [Irodori](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/irodori): Free Japan Foundation textbooks for daily-life Japanese, with audio.
- [italki](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/italki): A marketplace for Japanese tutors and language-exchange partners.
- [JapanesePod101](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/japanesepod101): A large catalog of leveled Japanese podcast lessons and transcripts.
- [Jisho](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/jisho): A free Japanese-English dictionary you can search from English, romaji, or kanji.
- [JPDB](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/jpdb): Frequency-aware Japanese vocabulary and kanji review with media-based ranking.
- [Kanji Damage](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/kanji-damage): A free mnemonic kanji guide with a readable order and blunt stories.
- [Kanji Koohii](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/kanji-koohii): Community kanji stories and reviews for Remembering the Kanji users.
- [Kanji Study](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/kanji-study): An Android kanji workbook with writing practice, quizzes, and JLPT lists.
- [kotu.io](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/kotu): Pitch-accent ear training with minimal-pair listening practice.
- [MaruMori](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/marumori): A guided multi-skill path that combines grammar, reading, kanji, and review.
- [NHK News Web Easy](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/nhk-news-web-easy): Free graded Japanese news with furigana and audio.
- [Satori Reader](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/satori-reader): Annotated Japanese articles and dialogues with audio and inline notes.
- [Tae Kim](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/tae-kim): A free grammar guide from knowing nothing through advanced constructions.
- [WaniKani](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/wanikani): A guided radical-to-kanji-to-vocabulary course with a managed review queue.
- [Yomitan](https://studyjapanese101.com/resources/yomitan): A browser popup dictionary for looking up Japanese while you read.

## Guides and comparisons

- [How to use SRS without burning out](https://studyjapanese101.com/guides/how-to-use-srs-without-burning-out)
- [Anki vs WaniKani](https://studyjapanese101.com/compare/anki-vs-wanikani)
- [Japanese flashcard and SRS apps](https://studyjapanese101.com/best/japanese-flashcard-and-srs-apps)

## Blog

- [A beginner Japanese path that does not start with Anki](https://studyjapanese101.com/blog/a-beginner-path-that-does-not-start-with-anki): Anki is a powerful memory engine. It is a poor first app if you do not yet know what to put on the cards.
- [How to choose a Japanese resource without collecting twenty apps](https://studyjapanese101.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-japanese-resource): Most resource problems are collection problems. Name what is stuck, then add one tool that does that job.
- [Inku: what our team built and what it is not](https://studyjapanese101.com/blog/inku-what-we-built-and-what-it-is-not): Inku is our iPhone review companion. It is not a full Japanese curriculum, not Anki, and not a reason to ignore better-fit tools.
- [Kanji study is a sequence problem](https://studyjapanese101.com/blog/kanji-is-a-sequence-problem): Kanji is less a talent problem than an order problem. Choose a sequence, or choose to learn characters from the words you already read.
- [How to read Japanese before you feel ready](https://studyjapanese101.com/blog/read-japanese-before-you-feel-ready): Waiting until you know enough kanji is how adults never start. Pick a source you can finish, then look up less than you want to.
- [What SRS is actually for](https://studyjapanese101.com/blog/what-srs-is-actually-for): SRS answers one question: when should this item come back? Everything else is still your job.

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