Japanese Language Learning Resources
Grammar
Guides
Reference
Sentence Mining
Books, Manga, Anime, etc...
Most of these are NSFW so keep that in mind (for educational purposes only of course)
- yaoi-sei - BL
- aarinfantasy - BL
- Itazuraneko
- dl-raw
- Bilingual Manga
- Manga Zip -> alt
- syosetsu
- nyaa.si
- sukubei (NSFW version of nyaa)
Legal Sources
You have to pay to get manga from these websites, tofugu has a guide on how to do that. Sometimes these websites will also offer up some books/chapters for free (usually for a limited time) so it is also worth checking out even if you are not willing to spend some money.
Tools
Character Extraction/Recogntion
- mokuro - manga OCR
- YomiNinja - screen OCR
- textractor - extract text from VNs
- yomitan - pop-up dictionary for browser
Video Players
asbplayer : A tool to add subtitles to online/streaming videos. The website jimaku is a good source of kanji subtitles for anime, etc..
Example sentence search
In google, twitter, etc.. Use quotation marks to surround a word/phrase to find examples of sentences containing them. Alternatively, the websites below are also useful
- immersionkit - examples from anime
- youglish - examples from YouTube
- sentencesearch
- massif.la
- kanshudo
- eijirou
YT Channels
Education
Immersion
There are way too many, so I decided to put them on a separate page.