Here are a few online resources that I've been using lately to study Japanese. Jisho.org My online dictionary of choice. Easy to use...

I bought a few books from the "Japanese Graded Readers" series. If you're not familiar with the series, they are books wri...

Often times language learning programs and learners themselves conflate 'practice' with 'learning'; the idea that one can...

A few years ago, Japan Society produced a televised video series called Erin's Challenge! I Can Speak Japanese . In the show, you f...

The Japanese news agency, NHK, has a section dedicated to providing news articles written in an easy to understand Japanese with a numbe...

I recently came across an interesting new online learning tool called Memrise . You can use it to study a variety of languages, but I have...

Everyone I know in Japan is alright, but there still is great damage to Japan and many people have lost their lives. Even though buildings w...

Wired Kana is a series of lessons that will cover the basic Japanese alphabets, Hiragana and Katakana. Wired Kana: Lesson 1 starts with the ...

During my time learning Japanese, I've tried many resources and have found that there's not just one magical source, but that it tak...

I have finally studied 1,000 words in Japanese on Smart.fm . It has been about 2 and a half years of studying Japanese and I have sure come ...

The Japanese Ministry of Education developed a list of kanji called the Kyōiku kanji, divided into six grades, that children should learn du...