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Learning Japanese? Here are some useful resources

Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Sacha Chua

One of my friends is planning to learn Japanese, so I thought I'd put together some tips for him and for other people.

If you're planning to learn Japanese, I have some Japanese-related bookmarks on del.icio.us that you might find useful. =) You might also want to check out what other people have bookmarked for japanese+language.

I particularly recommend this quick and dirty guide to Japanese, Jim Breen's WWWJDIC and the example sentence search. You can download the examples file from the FTP server for totally awesome local lookup. I wrote some code in Emacs to make this easier (and to insert random taglines into my blog posts =) ).

Good luck and have fun!

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Pierre

Jun 9, 2008 at 9:43 am

Hi Sacha,

Have you ever tried LRNJ? http://lrnj.com/

(Available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux!)

-Pd

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Wojciech

Jun 9, 2008 at 2:21 pm

Hi Sacha, thanks so much for posting this! Your links are definitely useful, and I'll keep you updated as I progress.

Pierre — thanks for the link, playing video games *and* learning Japanese? I love it.

Thanks,
Wojciech

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Cameron D

Jun 9, 2008 at 5:15 pm

@Pierre

September 10th, 2003:
http://sachachua.com/wp/2003/09/10/great-way-to-learn-japanese/

She's one step ahead of you

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Keyboard Philosopher :: My Favorite Resources for Learning Japanese

Jun 9, 2008 at 5:45 pm

[...] Chua posted a nice list of resources for learning the Japanese language on her blog (I've been reading her blog for a while and didn't even know she studied [...]

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Tala

Jun 9, 2008 at 10:52 pm

Sacha, thank you for these links! I'm also just starting to learn and these will surely come in handy.

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arina

Aug 19, 2008 at 11:02 pm

sacha…
arigatou gozaimasu..
ur links r very useful…
I'll often to open it,lol…
arigatou…

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