"Wasurete Yaranai" (忘れてやらない, lit. "Never Forget")

Updated Comprehensive List of Resources that I use while learning Japanese

Resources marked with a ⭐ mean I use it a lot and Highly Recommend it

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Tools I personally use (Highly recommend using these)

• Anki - A powerful flashcard SRS App, A Must have ⭐
• Yomitan - A Chrome extension to look up words in the dictionary ⭐
• Migaku - Powerful tool for vocab mining and dictionary lookup for Japanese Subtitles
• BunPro - Japanese Grammar and Vocabulary ⭐
• Obsidian - Note tracker using the Zettelkasten Idea, Highly Recommend buying Obsidian Plus! ⭐
• Jisho - Best Japanese-English dictionary, A Must have ⭐
• DeepL - Better Google Translate ⭐
• Jpdb - Very powerful SRS based dictionary and resource ⭐
• Numbers Practice - Practice learning the Japanese Numbering System
• Kotu.io - Make Anki Cards on Japanese Youtube Videos
• Furigana.info - Tool to find out which pronunciation is more popular
• Tatoeba - Find out how to use specific words in a sentence ⭐
• Forvo - Practice Hearing and accents
• CDrill - Conjugation Drill (Basically for grammar, dont tick polite before everything else)
• Nyaa - Watch Raw Anime ⭐
• Ajatt-Tools - Find Raw Anime Subtitle Files
• subs.md - Really good Detailed List of Raw Anime Subtitle Resources ⭐
• Jimaku - Another Raw Sub Website ⭐
• BookMeter - Get Japanese Book and Manga Reviews ⭐
• AsbPlayer - Good tool for Subtitle Sentence Mining (Pair with Raw Subs and Yomitan) ⭐
• AniMixPlay - Anime Site that is Compatible with AsbPlayer (Turn off English Subs) ⭐
• NihongoDera - Make Furigana Text for Anki Cards ⭐
• The Index - Collection of Anime Websites and Resources ⭐
• Jiten - Really good vocab decks

My Anki Decks and Addons

• Anacreon Core 2.3k V3 - Main Vocabulary Deck ⭐
• All in One Kanji Deck (Heisig's RTK Order, 6th edition) - Harder Kanji dedicated deck
• VectorMaps - Deck configured to the Regions and prefectures of Japan
• Usagi Kanji Phonetics - Kanji Phonetics Deck
• Beautify-Anki 2.0 - Addon to improve and customize Anki UI ⭐
• Japanese Support - Addon to add new Japanese-specific note types to Anki ⭐
• Migaku Anki Add-on - Addon to Sync Migaku to Anki
• Review Heatmap - Addon to Add Github style heatmap to Anki ⭐

Mobile Apps I use (IOS)

• Kana - For learning Hiragana and Katakana ⭐
• Shirabe Jisho - Jisho Mobile App
• Migii JLPT - Good archive of past JLPT exams
• Todaii - Read Japanese News at your own level
• Pibo - Bedtime stories in Japanese (N4 - N5 Only)
• Bunpro - Bunpro Mobile App
• NHK WORLD - Read Current Japanese News ⭐

Useful Resources that I use

• CureDolly - THE GOAT For Japanese Grammar !! ⭐
• TheMoeWay - Very useful guide for how and where to start learning Japanese ⭐
• Donkuri - Good Guide on how to immerse
• Novel Reading List - Very cool database of japanese novels ranked based on their kanji difficulty ⭐
• Japanese VN Setup - Guide on how to learn japanese from VN's (Visual Novel Games) ⭐
• Media Recommendations - Manga recommendations ranked on their kanji difficulty ⭐

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Resources I do not use but useful nonetheless

• Tanoshii Japanese - Good but unstructured japanese lessons
• Tofugu - Website for learning Hiragana and Katakana
• Kana Stroke order - Learn Hiragana and Katakana Stroke Order
• Kanji Map - Learn Kanji by Writing
• JapaneseAmmo - Basic Guide on Japanese Grammer
• Kana Game - Space Invaders Style Kana Game
• SuperNative - Listening Practice from Japanese Movies
• Bilinguis - Free Bilingual Books (EN - JP)
• Tadoku - Free Japanese Books for learning
• ClozeMaster - Gamify Japanese Learning
• YouGlish - Practice Japanese Pronounciation and find specific words on Japanese Youtube Videos
• Subs2srs - Japanese Text Analysis Tool, Easily make anki cards from videos

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I currently do not use any textbooks

Start date: 1/19/25
Current Level: N5-ish -> N4