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StumbleUpon. Drill and learn the Japanese kanji, learn Japanese. Learning Tips. Japanese Language Resource Reviews. It’s been about a month since we launched our “Japanese Resources Page” – on it we say things like “blah-didy-blah japanese resource this that etc” but we thought it would be fun for you guys if we just put our money where our mouths are. Not all the resources on the Japanese Resources page are free (some of them are, though, and they’re awesome), so we thought we’d give you some of the paid ones using cash from our very own Scrooge McDuck gold coin swimming pools (that way you don’t have to).

We have a lot of cool resources to give away, too. How To Win (It’s Suspiciously Easy) On our Japanese Resources page, we have “recommend” buttons. They look like this: The cool thing about these is that they’re linked to Facebook, meaning only real people can “recommend” something. We’re greedy fugus over here, though, so we want to bribe you to give some recommendations on this page (if you haven’t already). Make sure you have a Facebook account (big sorries if you don’t!) Prizes [divider] [hr] Rules. Learn Japanese Language Online. KanaTeacher. Common Kanji Vocabulary Lists · Tangorin. The Jōyō Kanji 常用漢字表 The jōyō kanji is the guide to kanji characters announced officially by the Japanese Ministry of Education.

Current jōyō kanji are those on a list of 1,945 characters issued on October 10, 1981. It is a slightly modified version of the tōyō kanji, which was the initial list of secondary school-level kanji standardized after World War II. (source: Wikipedia) JLPT Kanji 日本語能力試験漢字 The Japanese Language Proficiency Test, or JLPT, is a standardized criterion-referenced test to evaluate and certify the Japanese language proficiency of non-native speakers. The JLPT Kanji are basically Jōyō Kanji divided into four levels of the JLPT. 2,500 most frequently used kanji in newspapers 2,500 kanji ordered in a list that expresses the relative frequency of occurence of a character in the modern Japanese.

The Jinmeiyō Kanji 人名用漢字 The Jinmeiyō Kanji (Chinese characters for use in personal names) are a set of 983 Chinese characters known as the "name kanji" in English.