Các website mà bạn nên ghé thăm khi học tiếng Nhật

Các website mà bạn nên ghé thăm khi học tiếng Nhật là gì?
Đôi khi thật khó khi bắt đầu học 1 ngôn ngữ mới, bạn sẽ thường tự hỏi mình có thể tìm tất cả những tài liệu cần thiết ở đâu? Cách nào để học hiệu quả nhất? Hy vọng những website sau sẽ hữu ích cho bạn.

1. Reviewing the kanji aka RTK

Một trang web tuyệt với để học Kanji. Nó sẽ giúp bạn rút ngắn được rất nhiều thời gian học.

1. Anki

Một chương trình giúp bạn học với thẻ flash cards. Nó sử dụng 1 thuật toán đặc biệt để test kỹ năng của bạn, giúp cho bạn nhớ được lâu và khó quên từ vựng bạn vừa học.

1. Tofugu

Một trang web cực đẹp và có rất nhiều series hữu ích cho việc học của bạn.

1. Rikaichan

Rikaichan là một addon cho firefox. Bạn chỉ cần hover chuột lên 1 từ tiếng Nhật nó sẽ show cho bạn nghĩa và cách đọc của từ đó. Cực kỳ hữu ích.
Trên Chrome cũng có 1 addon tương tự là Rikaikun.

1. Ajax IME

Vì một lý do nào đó mà máy tính của bạn không thể gõ tiếng Nhật được, bạn có thể gõ trực tiếp vào website này.

1. Japanese Pod 101

Một trang web nổi tiếng với cách dạy rất dễ hiểu, cô giáo cũng rất dễ thương. Có file mp3 cho tất cả level.

1. Japanese Culture Podcast in Japanese

Trang web nói về văn hóa Nhật Bản.

1. Daily Yomiuri Podcast

Những tin tức mới trên podcast

1. All Japanese all the time

This site is great – it lays out a course of study and has plenty of articles that will have you raring ready to go

1. Drama Note

Scripts cho Japanese dramas. Excellent resource for puzzling out what someone is saying. There’s a google search near the top use that to search for drama scripts. Usually there’s a root page for a given drama and from there you can get all the episodes scripts. Remember to search in Japanese :D

1. AnimeSuki

Torrent site for unlicensed anime

1. JPop Suki

Torrent site for Japanese music

1. D-addicts

Full of south east asian tv. Lots of excellent dramas raw and subbed in Japanese. There’s also Japanese tv – sometimes with adverts!

1. Crunchy Roll

Watch anime online!

1. Drama Wiki

Use this with D-addicts to find dramas you might like – or find dramas with similar actors – useful if you’re trying to emulate a particular person.

1. Namiko’s Japanese Language Blog

Namiko has been writing a short blog post in English and Japanese since the mid 90s. There’s also a detailed explanation of the Japanese used.

1. The JLPT Study Page

Sentences and grammar points taken from Japanese Language Proficiency Test with excellent translations. Great source for sentence mining.

1. 2 chan

The Japanese message board. This thing is massive and scary and very unlike western forums – there’s no moderation or nice formatting. Everything is just out there like a giant chalk board.

1. The Dirty Guide To Japanese

A quick overview of the entire language!

1. Tae Kim’s Guide To Japanese

Excellent series of articles going over the basics of the language in a very straight forward clear manner.

1. Japanese Verbs Guide

Online book / guide to how Japanese verbs work

1. Jim’s Japanese Grammar Summary

Summary of Japanese grammar all on one page.

1. A logical Japanese Grammar

Another site going over the main points of Japanese grammar

1. JGram Grammar Wiki

A wiki that covers grammar mainly associated with JLPT tests. Each point has a comments section that is sometimes more enlightening than the main article.

1. Goo Japanese Dictionary

Great example sentences

1. Yahoo’s Japanese Dictionary

Another good dictionary to search

1. ALC Japanese Dictionary

Of all the dictionaries this seems to give the most examples.

1. Excite Japanese Dictionary

Often my first stop! Japanese explanations are quite simple – there are also English explanations and many examples.

1. Sanseido Online Dictionary

Good terse Japanese definitions.

1. Kanji Dictionary (English Frontend)

Has all the reading plus sound clips!

1. Nihonho2

Japanese language and grammar reference – in Japanese.

1. TBS News Online

Tokyo Broadcasting system news – lots of news video feeds.

1. Asahi Shinbun

Japanese online newspaper

1. Yomiuri Shinbun

Another good quality Japanese newspaper.

1. 100 Japanese Things

Fantastic blog that takes something Japanese

1. Daily Kids Japanese News

Sometimes adult news can be a bit much

1. Inspirational Japanese Learning Log

This log cover’s ‘Sheetz’ journey from begginner to advanced Japanese speaker

1. Mixi

Japan’s answer to facebook – though if I remember correctly you’ll need an invite.

1. Japanese Wikipedia

Pro-tip – if you don’t the Japanese

1. Joshu Grammar Section

This has grammar points broken down with examples and explanation. There also seems to be a lot more to the site but this is what I’ve found most helpful.

1. NIHONgo for it! Blog

Blog by Akiko a native Japanese teacher in Japanese. She breaks down lots of cool idioms and also goes through kanji. Here I learnt nakoze means slump

1. Japanese Game Scripts

This has Vagrant Story

1. How to read a Japanese Manga

Extremely thorough guide to purchasing and reading a Japanese manga with limited Japanese knowledge. A lot more informationhere than the title would suggest.

1. Nico Nico Douga

The Japanese equivalent of YouTube – you have to manage to register to watch though!

1. Genki Self Study Room form the Japan Times

Useful for the very basics.

1. Spoken Online Picture Books

Stories for children – that are read!

1. My Neighbour Totoro Japanese Script

Everyone studying Japanese has probably been exposed to this movie. Learn it that must faster by using the script provided here.

1. NHK Japanese Lessons

NHK is little like the BBC in the UK

1. Kuromomo’s diary

Kuromomo’s blog of herself and her cat

1. Famitsu

Japan’s No1. Gaming Magazine website (good blogs too)