{"id":547,"date":"2017-10-16T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/?p=547"},"modified":"2017-10-20T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:52:22","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many tools and resources that are helpful for learning Japanese (and perhaps some that are not as helpful). For the beginner, it&#8217;s not obvious exactly what resources are available and how to use them.<\/p>\n<p>Here, we will go over some of the best tools and resources for learning Japanese along with a simple tutorial of how to use it and for what purpose.<\/p>\n<h2>Quick Links<\/h2>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to read the entire tutorials, here&#8217;s a list of all the resources which are covered. In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/nihongo-e-na.com\/eng\/\">NIHONGO e\u306a<\/a> is also a good site to go for learning how to use various online sites and tools for learning Japanese.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.memrise.com\/topic\/japanese-kana\/wordlists\/\">Courses for learning Kana<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coscom.co.jp\/learnjapanese801\/install_ime.html\">Setting up Japanese for Windows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redcocoon.org\/cab\/mysoft.html\">Setting up Japanese for Mac OS X<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/JapaneseInput\">Setting up Japanese for Ubuntu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japanesetranslator.co.uk\/your-name-in-japanese\/\">Translate your first name to Japanese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jisho.org\/\">Another Japanese-English Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alc.co.jp\/\">English-Japanese Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dic.yahoo.co.jp\/\">J<->E and J<->J Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarcloud.com\/rikaichan\/\">Firefox plugin dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/\">Finding Japanese meetup groups<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-exchanges.org\/\">Finding Skype conversation partners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lang-8.com\/\">Writing practice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.tsukuba.lagoinst.info\/search\/\">Word usage search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scriptin.github.io\/kanji-frequency\/\">Kanji by frequency<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many tools and resources that are helpful for learning Japanese (and perhaps some that are not as helpful). For the beginner, it&#8217;s not obvious exactly what resources are available and how to use them. Here, we will go over some of the best tools and resources for learning Japanese along with a simple &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/resources\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Resources&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"series":[28],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","series-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}