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Learning Japanease, taken from http://pastebin.com/w0gRFM0c
Resources marked with > are used, have been used, or are actively advocated in the threads. This applies for everything in the [Necessities] section.
[Necessities]
Hiragana & Katakana: http://www.realkana.com/
Kanji: http://kanjidamage.com/
Japanese IME: http://www.google.com/intl/ja/ime/
Anki Flashcards: http://ankisrs.net/
Genki (↓Bottom↓)
Tae Kim Japanese: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
http://rikaisama.sourceforge.net/ (Firefox only)
[Websites]
http://japanese.stackexchange.com/
https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/lesson01/basic/index.html (video + script)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/columns/0002/ (column of short Japanese lessons)
http://www.imabi.net/ (grammar)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_grammar (surprisingly comprehensive and useful)
http://www.memrise.com/ (basically anki with flowers and other neat and colour features and methods)
[Grammar]
>http://www.guidetojapanese.org/ (Tae Kim) (Site seems to be down quite often so you might want to download this http://www.mediafire.com/download/hq2536ew6anf5wt/grammar_guide.pdf)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/j_gram_summ.html
http://www.jekai.org/
http://www.geocities.jp/niwasaburoo/index.html - Book on Japanese grammar, written in Japanese
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese/Grammar
http://kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net/Japanese/index.html
http://www.jgram.org/ - jgram has not updated to the new JLPT levels yet, but the grammar hasn't changed.
http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/skills/grammar/
http://it.scribd.com/doc/6579312/A-Dictionary-of-Japanese-Particles
http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~tmath/home/index.htm
Yōkouso! http://www.mediafire.com/?rewg4tx4wte4bxv udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
>http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/5892518/Japanese_the_manga_way.pdf (Japanese The Manga Way)
[Helpful Forums]:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/forum/
http://thejapanesepage.com/
[Kanji]
http://kanji.koohii.com/learnmore
>http://kanji.sljfaq.org/ - Look up kanji through stroke order.
http://www.jlpt-kanji.com/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ik2r-myr/kanji/listjouyou_en.htm
http://kakijun.main.jp/ (stroke order)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuzSRjg-3K_vck9HZmp5YmVkMXJHMDRpMmU2UzFWVkE#gid=0 - A list of the 3622 most common Kanji characters found in the Japanese Wikipedia, along with their frequencies.
http://www.mediafire.com/?n0nj66yyj7dsqyz - Collection of images from the threads. This link should contain around a 3000 or so kanji. A few images may or may not be missing. Be careful of blunders I might have made as well. If you would like for this to be updated simply ask.
[Listening Practice]
http://www.njuku.com/
http://jclab.wordpress.com/
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/minwa/
http://www.simulradio.jp/
[Online Dictionaries/Thesauruses]
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/
>http://dic.nicovideo.jp/
>Good for slang.
>http://kotobank.jp/
Good for your rarer words and terms.
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/
>http://tangorin.com/
>Provides example sentences along with other common dictionary features.
>http://www.alc.co.jp/ - Example sentences
http://zokugo-dict.com/ (general slang)
http://www.geocities.jp/tomomi965/index2.html (for idioms/set phrases)
http://www.media-k.co.jp/jiten/ (for 2ch slang/memes/catch phrases)
http://dbms.kokken.go.jp/nknet/Onomatope/category.html (onomatopoeia)
http://www.rondely.com/zakkaya/dic5/index.htm (onomatopoeia)
http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/s_kaydic?ctg_in=4 (onomatopoeia)
http://gogen-allguide.com/ (word etymology)
http://kanji.reader.bz/ (kanji readings, works for names too)
http://www016.upp.so-net.ne.jp/hougenn/ (for different Japanese dialects)
>http://www.weblio.jp/
[Other]
>http://lang-8.com/ - (Practice Japanese by writing short passages, receive and give corrections from and to native Japanese speakers)
http://japanese-speedtest.10fastfingers.com/
http://lazunin.com/kage_en.html
ttp://www.start-point.net/nihontizu/ - Prefecture Names
http://iteslj.org/v/j/ (Vocab Quizzes)
http://www.offbeatband.com/2010/12/the-most-commonly-used-japanese-words-by-frequency/
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdicinf.html#code_tag - Info on tags that rikai uses.
>http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm (Interesting article on learning. Recommended Reading, especially if you're wondering how you should set up your decks and so forth.)
http://www.mediafire.com/?dckt6ix32l93f35 (Collection of the Nihonshock cheatsheets in pdf format.)
>http://kanjitomo.com/ - 「KanjiTomo is a program for identifying Japanese characters from images」
http://lapapps.net/ (Kanji for Games, that is, Game X's kanji.)
http://sukebei.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=23370 - JapanesePod
http://gloss.dliflc.edu/Default.aspx
[Reading and/or Watching]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Agk2IH0ZXhn7dDNmSW1BVFU5dVgyOHkzWjU4b2l2dkE&pli=1
>A reading list made by a kind anon from these threads, and for these threads. Be sure to add stuff you're reading in here.
http://www.portals.co.jp/isopp/
http://www.mediafire.com/?93atzwak7dx47- a Mediafire of documents and raw manga to get you started with reading
http://chokochoko.wordpress.com/the-great-library/
http://www.j-comi.jp/
>A Japanese website that provides free (older) manga to read. Mostly tons of old stuff, but it has the entire set of Love Hina (http://www.j-comi.jp/book/comic/1) volumes, which is a pretty entertaining series.
http://amaterasu.tindabox.net/guide/j-comi.php
>This takes a few dozen pages of actual manga, takes apart every single sentence and shows you how to translate them
http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/space/japan.htm (Chinese site with Japanese television stations. Good quality as well.)
http://www.jcafe24.net/index.php
>Another source for manga. You have to set up an account and make a post on one of their forums before you can access the Winny Club, which is where the raw manga is.
>http://kitsunekko.net/subtitles/japanese/
>Japanese subtitles for a ton of different anime shows. The only problem is that some of the subs seemed to be timed wrong when used with common raws (Ex: the Japanese subs are set for a 24 minute episode, while the raw is 22 minutes). So you might have to open them up with a subtitle editor and change the times. Regardless, you can usually use these subs with the anime you already have, just disable English subs and load the Japanese subs. For the anime subs, it's worth looking into using a text hooker to extract the text to make it easy to paste into Anki or a dictionary. (Such as AGTH)
http://www.livingjapanese.com/p/reading-pack.html
>Yotsuba Reading pack. Put 0$ in if you don't want to pay.
http://www.raw1st.org/
http://www.portals.co.jp/isopp/
http://rawcs.blogspot.co.il/p/manga-index.html
http://www.rawmangaspot.com/
http://www.raw-manga.net/
http://rawscans.com/
http://shareraws.blogspot.co.il/
http://crazy-cake.blogspot.co.il/p/homepage.html
http://mangahead.com/
>http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
[E-Books (PDF)]
Making Sense of Japanese Grammar (2.56 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?d8hvs7jyb0fi156
Japanese Core Words and Phrases (3.79 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?z1fcbxw4vbnfb2p
Japanese Particle Workbook (39.2 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?4c4387dbbg86a43
Japanese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar (82.1 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?c3c83or0a5xz2dw
Japanese Beyond Words (27.1 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?dcc3yaay9w4fj5c
Read Real Japanese (80.5 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?sg2yr34ehldh6ir
Oxford Japanese Grammar & Verbs (40.1 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?8xk6v525idpbdb8
JLPT - Teach Yourself Japanese (32.1 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?lpwckercaq3mfiw
(DOJG)
>Highly recommended resources on the Japanese language. In particular their は and が particle explanations in DOBJG provide particullary useful explanations.
>Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (24 MB) (DOBJG)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?c1swbbihl97s77b
>Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar (29.6 MB) (DOIJG)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?7obxdz023iiw3c8
>Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar (65.4 MB) (DOAJG)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?r61j67rmntthy9u
(Genki)
>Genki I (150.4 MB)
>*http://www.mediafire.com/?4dsxbexuv92xvuj
Genki I Workbook (28.6 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?orjq8jfja8lj4aq
(Supplemental Audio CDs.)
Genki I CDs 1 & 2 (102.1 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?u4ab7xyd2pgi0k7
Genki I CDs 3 & 4 (118.7 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?bjzhrte35es2e4z
Genki I CDs 5 & 6 (119.1 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?2apq4wv4j2rs9qu
Genki II (162.4 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?a2t5giuv35if4gm
Genki II Workbook (128.7 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?mm77vpi9731okst
Genki II CDs 1, 2, & 3 (103.5 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?6l55tomt2bnhrqq
Genki II CDs 4, 5, & 6 (95.5 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?b0m4063od4ghcfm
Genki I & II Answer Key (65.9 MB)
*http://www.mediafire.com/?102h82qhflktjdt
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louwers commented Oct 8, 2014

The Nihonshock cheat sheets have been updated.

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There's a page missing in the Nihon Shock cheat sheets, the Advanced Grammar one is missing the other side.

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