Learn Japanese - Nihongo.3Yen.com – Japanese Language Characterizer: Japanese and Chinese Reinforcement Links for Studying Japanese Online There are so many resources on the Internet for studying Japanese! These are the best ones I've found so far, and I hope you find something helpful in this list. Some quick notes first: Everything listed here is free to use unless otherwise noted. Links in bold are are highly recommended. Real-Time Online Lessons JOI (Japanese Online Institution) - An online school offering affordable real-time online lessons focusing on speaking, listening, reading, and grammar. Software JWPce - Japanese word processor for Windows. Web-based Language Tools rikaichan - A Firefox add-on that gives you mouseover popups for Japanese words. Textbooks Genki - A good textbook for introductory students. Reference Books A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (.jp) - A great book for grammar. Study Books Note: These books are in Japanese only, and only available on order from Japan (as far as I know). 完全マスター2級 日本語能力試験文法問題対策 - JLPT level 2 grammar study book affectionately known to me as 完全マスター. Grammar Vocabulary Kana
Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese Reviewing the Kanji A Select List of Japanese Language Study Sites These also help read a web page. You just have to copy and paste the text into the form. These are not aimed at JSL students, but if you understand Japanese fairly well, they are good. For Beginnerswww.JapanesePod101.com - Daily Perhaps a bit too much time-wasting laughing and joking around and non-study related chatting between presenters, but still very good. (See hints) If you can't easily locate the podcast feed on their website, just grab it here.
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Kunyomi or Onyomi kanji reading You can't really be 100% sure, but lately I do guess right of most of the time with characters I know well. When you look them up afterwards, it helps you remember them very easily if you guessed them right. If you think about looking up a difficult English word, it's not always easy to know how to pronounce it (which parts are stressed in particular) just by reading it, so it's not just Japanese that's tricky like that. I think teaching yourself kanji like that will create a lot of headaches later down the line. A lot of difficult characters contain radicals that are characters themselves. There are a couple of textbooks that structure a kanji-learning course around this concept. It ignores how to read the characters completely, for reasons that we've explained already: the best way to learn to read... is to read. As for the confidence issue, I'd like to meet somebody who was confident about learning kanji.