All Japanese learning resources

A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar

A three-volume grammar dictionary for looking up patterns you already met.

Akane Japanese Class

All-Japanese teacher videos and a podcast on daily life, with transcripts on the site.

AmazingTalker

A tutor marketplace for 1-on-1 Japanese lessons, usually on Zoom.

Anki

A programmable review system for cards you create, import, or mine.

Ask Japanese

Street interviews in Japan about culture, anime, and daily life.

Bilingual News

Weekly unscripted English-Japanese news podcast. Audio free; transcripts in a paid app.

Bunpo

Multi-language grammar lessons with Japanese, SRS review, and paid Plus or Platinum plans.

Bunpro

Typed grammar and vocabulary reviews inside changing sentence prompts.

Busuu

A general language-learning app that includes a Japanese course.

Comprehensible Japanese

Leveled all-Japanese input videos. The site is now branded Natural Japanese.

Dogen

Comedy-and-phonetics YouTube. Pitch-accent lessons live on Patreon.

Duolingo

A free habit app that can introduce Japanese, but not a complete course.

Game Gengo

YouTube and scripts for learning Japanese from video games.

Genki

A beginner textbook series covering the four skills, with audio and a workbook.

HelloTalk

A mobile language-exchange app for text, voice, and corrections.

Hirogaru

Free A1-A2 Japan Foundation site with interest-topic articles, videos, and kanji practice.

Human Japanese

A paid beginner Japanese app that reads like a patient textbook on your phone.

A free, deep Japanese grammar reference for lookup rather than a first course.

Immersion Kit

Search Japanese words in anime and drama subtitle lines.

Inku

Ready-made Japanese study on iPhone with kana, vocabulary, kanji, phrases, audio, and FSRS reviews.

Irodori

Free Japan Foundation textbooks for daily-life Japanese, with audio.

italki

A marketplace for Japanese tutors and language-exchange partners.

Japanese Ammo with Misa

Grammar and everyday-Japanese videos from Misa, with written notes on her site.

Japanese for Busy People

A beginner Japanese textbook series written for working adults with limited time.

Japanese from Zero

Beginner textbooks plus a matching interactive web course and lesson videos.

Japanese Graded Readers

ASK’s よむよむ文庫 print packs with audio, and White Rabbit Press’s 9-story app.

Japanese with Shun

Beginner Japanese podcast and YouTube that follows Genki grammar.

JapanesePod101

A large catalog of leveled Japanese podcast lessons and transcripts.

Jisho

A free Japanese-English dictionary you can search from English, romaji, or kanji.

Jotoba

A free Japanese dictionary with names, pitch accent, and example sentences.

JPDB

Frequency-aware Japanese vocabulary and kanji review with media-based ranking.

Kaname Naito

Spoken Japanese grammar on YouTube, plus free dialogues and paid beginner courses.

Kanji Damage

A free mnemonic kanji guide with a readable order and blunt stories.

Kanji Koohii

Community kanji stories and reviews for Remembering the Kanji users.

Kanji Look and Learn

Japan Times kanji textbook covering 512 characters with mnemonic illustrations.

Kanji Study

An Android kanji workbook with writing practice, quizzes, and JLPT lists.

Kanshudo

Kanji, vocabulary, and grammar in one system, with flashcards attached.

Kitsun

A paid spaced-repetition app with shared Japanese decks and a modern interface.

Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course

A mnemonic textbook for 2,300 kanji, including all jōyō characters.

kotu.io

Pitch-accent tests plus search, flashcards, and media tools for Japanese study.

LangCorrect

A writing-journal community with sentence-by-sentence native-speaker corrections.

Language Reactor

Dual Japanese subtitles and lookup for YouTube and Netflix in the browser.

Learn Japanese Pod

Conversational Japanese podcast with Alex and Ami, plus Patreon extras.

Let's Learn Japanese from Small Talk

Unscripted Japanese conversation podcast with vocab lists on a Hatena blog.

LingoDeer

A structured Japanese app course with clearer grammar notes than most gamified apps.

LingQ

Import Japanese text, track known words, and read with in-line lookup.

A free Japanese grammar blog with example-heavy, informal notes.

Marugoto

Japan Foundation course materials for everyday Japanese communication.

MaruMori

A guided multi-skill path that combines grammar, reading, kanji, and review.

MATCHA Easy Japanese

Travel and culture articles rewritten in N4-level easy Japanese with furigana.

Migaku

A toolkit for mining Japanese from video and text into review cards.

Migii JLPT

N5 to N1 mock tests and skill drills on web, iPhone, and Android.

Miku Real Japanese

YouTube and podcast lessons, plus a paid grammar and shadowing audio course.

Minna no Nihongo

A classroom Japanese series. Best with a teacher or the translation companion.

Natively

Community-graded Japanese books, movies, and TV by relative difficulty.

News in Slow Japanese

Slow news and culture lessons with transcripts and popup glosses.

NHK News Web Easy

Free graded Japanese news with furigana and audio.

NHK World Easy Japanese

Free official beginner Japanese lessons with audio from NHK World.

Nihongo con Teppei

A free beginner Japanese podcast for daily listening.

Nihongo no Mori

JLPT-focused video classes taught in Japanese, with a paid site and app.

Nihongo So-matome

ASK daily JLPT skill books with translations, from N5 through N1.

Official JLPT practice materials

Free official samples plus paid workbooks with authentic JLPT questions and audio.

OJAD

A free University of Tokyo accent dictionary with textbook lookup and Suzuki-kun.

Organic Japanese with Cure Dolly

Archived YouTube grammar series that treats Japanese as noun-centered.

Pimsleur

Audio-first Japanese lessons designed for spoken recall on the go.

Preply

A tutor marketplace where you can book Japanese lessons.

Quartet

An intermediate Japanese textbook series often used after a beginner course.

Real Kana

Typed hiragana and katakana recall on the web, with a current free iPhone app.

Remembering the Kanji

A book method that teaches kanji meanings and writing before Japanese readings.

renshuu

A community Japanese site with quizzes, SRS, kanji, and grammar in one place.

SAKURA TIPS

Beginner listening podcast with Japanese transcripts on the site.

Satori Reader

Annotated Japanese articles and dialogues with audio and inline notes.

Shin Kanzen Master

3A exam-prep books for one JLPT skill at a time, from N4 through N1.

Skritter

Spaced-repetition handwriting practice for Japanese kanji and words.

Speak Japanese Naturally

Pronunciation, rhythm, and pitch videos from Fumi, plus a paid phonetics course.

Speechling

Record Japanese, compare with a native speaker, and send audio to a pronunciation coach.

Tadoku

Graded Japanese readers for extensive reading, including a free library.

Tae Kim

A free grammar guide from knowing nothing through advanced constructions.

Takoboto

A free Japanese-English dictionary for phones, with a web version.

Tandem

A language-exchange app for text and voice practice with partners.

That Japanese Man Yuta

Street-interview YouTube on Japanese culture and language, with paid courses sold separately.

Tobira

An intermediate Japanese textbook often used after Genki or Minna no Nihongo.

ToKini Andy

YouTube grammar lessons plus a paid companion for Genki and Quartet.

TRY! JLPT

ASK exam-prep books that teach JLPT grammar through texts, then mock the paper.

Verbling

A tutor marketplace with a built-in video classroom for Japanese lessons.

WaniKani

A guided radical-to-kanji-to-vocabulary course with a managed review queue.

Wasabi Japanese

A free grammar reference and self-study library, plus paid 1-on-1 lessons.

Watanoc

Slow, readable Japanese articles for learners.

Yomitan

A browser popup dictionary for looking up Japanese while you read.

yomujp

Graded extensive reading. New pieces free for 4 weeks, then members-only.