Japanese Links

This is a list of my favorite Japanese learning related links.

Tae Kim's Grammar guide
Instructional videos with cute girls
iKnow at smart.fm
Great for motivation
Reviewing the Kanji
Look up words and kanji
A very comprehensive dictionary

Podcasts

I've run across a few podcasts that I found interesting.

Japanesepod101.com - This is the best one-stop source of Japanese study material that I've found. Since it went live in 2007, it's gradually become more commercialized, but on the plus side, the production quality has gone up as well. JP101 is a great tool for studying Japanese.

Along with the daily audio, there are complimentary PDF's available for download as well. You have a lot to choose from depending on your skill level from early beginner up to some advanced intermediate lessons. There are several different feeds you can subscribe to or you can create a custom feed. It's really a nice setup.

The Apocolypse Dowell Show

Finding Japan

Two things Japanese related

Rikaichan
This is a plugin for the Firefox browser. It adds little info boxes that display when you mouse over Japanese text. It's pretty awesome.

Reviewing the Kanji
This is a website that you can log into and review kanji using a flashcard system based on Heisig's Remembering the Kanji I. It's pretty sweet. So far, I'm up to over 500 kanji and I've been using it for about 3 weeks. My goal is to learn to recognize (and write) the most common ~2000 within the next 6 weeks. I've been studying Japanese off and on for several years now and prior to finding this website, I only managed to learn about 150 kanji.