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This is an appendix to the DJT guide. Commonly recommended resources are marked with an ※. There is no "correct" way of learning, so you should try out the resources appropriate for your level and see which you feel are best. An old version of the DJT guide can be found here. An alternative guide to Japanese with a more direct/opinionated approach can be found here.

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Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

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Anki

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Anki

Flashcard software. Also available for mobile.

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※Anki - Anki is a flashcard program which uses a method called spaced repetition to drill information into your head. You can download premade decks. It shows you a set amount of new cards each day (default 20) and will show you the same cards again when you are most likely to forget them, which is predicted through algorithms. This program has a lot of features that can’t be covered here, so Read The Fucking Manual if you wish to totally utilize Anki. You can also get this on your mobile device and sync your deck between both versions. The official App Store version costs money (to support the devs) so you might just want to use Safari in that case instead.

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※Anki - Anki is a flashcard program which uses a method called spaced repetition to drill information into your head. It shows you a set amount of new cards each day (default 20) and will show you the same cards again when you are most likely to forget them, which is predicted through algorithms. This program has a lot of features that can’t be covered here, so Read The Fucking Manual if you wish to totally utilize Anki. You can also get this on your mobile device and sync your deck between both versions. The official App Store version costs money (to support the devs) so you might just want to use Safari in that case instead.

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There are programs and add-ons that further increase its usefulness, see: Morph Man, subs2srs, and many more. A popular add-on worth mentioning is Kanji Grid, which allows you to visualise your progress through the kanji and may help to keep you motivated in your struggle with them.

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There are programs and add-ons that further increase its usefulness, see: Morph Man, subs2srs, and many more. A popular add-on is Kanji Grid, which allows you to visualise your progress through the kanji and may help to keep you motivated in your struggle with them.

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If you use GNU/Linux and you want to change the size of the Japanese characters, you need to install the appropriate Japanese fonts, if you don’t have them. Two high-quality fonts which should be available in the repositories of most distros are the IPA Gothic & Mincho fonts developed by Japan’s Information-technology Promotion Agency (the package in your distro’s repo should come with proportional variants, IPAPGothic and IPAPMincho respectively, which have kerning and thus should be more visually-pleasing), and the Noto CJK fonts developed by Google (note that the latin glyphs in the Noto CJK font are different from those in the ordinary Noto font). Even Windows users should consider switching to these fonts as Microsoft’s own Gothic and Mincho fonts are quite poor. For more fonts, see this and this.

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If you use GNU/Linux and you want to change the size of the Japanese characters, you need to install the appropriate Japanese fonts, if you don’t have them. Two high-quality fonts which should be available in the repositories of most distros are the IPA Gothic & Mincho fonts developed by Japan’s Information-technology Promotion Agency (the package in your distro’s repo should come with proportional variants, IPAPGothic and IPAPMincho respectively, which have kerning and thus should be more visually-pleasing), and the Noto CJK fonts developed by Google (note that the latin glyphs in the Noto CJK font are different from those in the ordinary Noto font). Even Windows users should consider switching to these fonts as Microsoft’s own Gothic and Mincho fonts are quite poor. For more fonts, see the CoR.

Anki is highly customizable, and you may change whatever you see fit to match your learning style, but for a quick start into learning vocabulary with Anki, the procedure in DJT’s Anki start-up guide is recommended.

Core6K/10K/5K index - This site lets you browse the contents of various popular Anki decks online.

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Dictionaries

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Dictionaries

Use these to look up words. Jisho and Tangorin also have kanji lookup.

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Kanji Lookup

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Kanji Lookup

Use these to look up kanji.

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sljfaq - Handwritten kanji search. Just draw the kanji using the correct stroke order and a list of possible kanji will appear. The results will link you to the WWWJDIC project by default, which is where the data for Jisho and most other online Japanese dictionaries comes from. You can go through the options page to redirect to your preferred service. What’s nice about this is that it saves your writing so it will still be there even if you close the page.

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Multiradical kanji search - Search kanji by radicals. Multiple radical. Sounds radical, right?

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Ebook Tools

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Ebook Tools

※Guide to Convert Aozora Bunko Text Files into Mobi Ebooks and Guide to Convert Mobi Ebooks into Searchable AZW3 Ebooks - two guides very useful for anybody who wants to read Japanese books on their Kindle or other e-reader that accepts books in azw3 format. Using them you can convert txt /mobi file into a searchable e-reader format (Kindle has a free Japanese dictionary available, you can also find some other dictionaries on the Internet and add them to your e-reader).

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Manga OCR

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Manga OCR

※KanjiTomo - This is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Scans for words on your screen and tells you what they are and what they mean. Success rate varies widely based on image / character quality. Suggested for manga.

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Visual Novels

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Visual Novels

VN installation guide - Explains how to set-up your system locale to work with VNs. Ignore the parts about English patches.

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Interactive Text Hooker - This allows you to extract text from Japanese games as it’s being displayed. The extracted text is put in your clipboard for an application like Translation Aggregator to make use of it. Designed for reading VNs, so it will not work for most non-VN type games and unsupported engines.

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※ITHVNR - This is ITH with the Visual Novel Reader (VNR) engine, allowing it to work with a wider selection of stuff (including non-VN stuff like 32bit media players for watching Japanese subbed anime). It also doesn't require hook codes for most things. Back-up link. Latest version requires Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.

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※ITHVNR - Extracts text from Japanese games as it's being displayed. This is Interactive Text Hooker with the Visual Novel Reader (VNR) engine, allowing it to work with a wider selection of stuff (including non-VN stuff like 32bit media players for watching Japanese subbed anime). It also doesn't require hook codes for most things. Back-up link. Latest version requires Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.

※Firefox Auto-scrolling Rikai VN Texthooking with ITHVNR Setup Guide - A guide on setting up ITHVNR so you can send VN text to Firefox and read it with Rikaisama (and use the convenient word mining function). The recommended method.

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Translation Aggregator - Usually used for machine translation, but in your case, you’ll be using JParser (preferably with Mecab hinting) to help you parse Japanese sentences and enable you to easily look up words in the same fashion as with Rikaichan and the like.

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Downloading VNs