Our website, along with thousands of blogs and sites on the internet, has helped people study and learn the Japanese language. Nowadays, anyone can learn nihongo by studying at home.
But it is difficult to find the best content on the vast internet. In this article, we have separated 30 sites that will help you study the Japanese language in the best possible way.
Before starting, we recommend reading the following articles to help you in the study and learning of the language:
- How to study and learn Japanese quickly
- 15 Free and Paid Online Japanese Courses
- 50 reasons to study Japanese
- 5 Tips from Kevin to learn Japanese
- 10 difficulties in learning the Japanese language
Table of Contents
Portuguese Sites to Learn Japanese
Suki Desu – There’s nothing better than starting by talking about our site, where we write various articles about the Japanese language. We like to delve into the origins of words, synonyms, and secrets. We recommend visiting our Study Guide.
NHK — The official site of the Japanese radio NHK that offers a free course that follows the daily life of a Japanese person with audio, explanations, exercises, and much more.
Erin’s Challenge — One of the best and most complete sites to learn Japanese through a course where the user follows videos, does exercises, and trains reading and vocabulary in an interactive and easy way. A site where you can learn Japanese while having fun.
Ganbarouze — A complete and essential site that delves into the details of Japanese grammar. A comprehensive course that teaches things that no other site in Portuguese teaches.
Wiki — A great source of information about grammar, vocabulary, verbs, and adjectives. (English site here.)
Social Sites to Learn Japanese
Preply.com — Preply is an educational platform that connects teachers and students for learning any language or subject. Through a simple and user-friendly interface, students can find their preferred teacher considering the hourly rate, ratings, and country of origin – essential for learning a language with native speakers. It is also possible to watch introduction videos from teachers and view their schedules.
Interpals.net — A social network where you can find people interested in learning and teaching a language.
Busuu.com — An online community for those studying foreign languages. Each member is both a teacher and a student, helping others learn their native language.
Livemocha.com — Livemocha is a kind of social network for languages. Basically, the site is a community for language learners, in addition to offering online courses.
LingQ.com — LingQ is one of the best sites not only for learning Japanese but also for learning many other languages. You can select the language of your workspace and the language you are studying. The site includes a library with hundreds of texts, all with mp3 audio, a vocabulary learning system, and lessons with online tutors.
Italki — A site where you can teach and learn with a native speaker. You enroll your students on a list, schedule a time, and contact them at the scheduled time.
Mylanguageexchange — A social network where you can choose an ideal partner to learn the language: you indicate your native language, the country, and the approximate age of the partner you wish to find.
English Sites to Learn Japanese
Alljapaneseallthetime — A super famous site by author Katzumoto who learned Japanese in 18 months and documented everything on his website. If you know English, this site is a must-visit.
Guidetojapanese — A complete and free guide to Japanese grammar, written by Tae Kim.
Kanji.koohii — This site offers a super quick and practical way to learn kanji based on the book What is Remembering the Kanji. The site also has a community where most questions are resolved.
Japanese-lesson — A complete site that offers a lot of content and resources to help learn and memorize the Japanese language.
Nihongoichiban — A complete site with a lot of content about the Japanese language.
Tofugu — A beautiful site that addresses not only the Japanese language but also Japan and its culture.
Japanese-online.com — This site offers online Japanese lessons, with basic sentence structures in Japanese and their pronunciations.
Mylanguages.org — The site offers numerous resources such as vocabulary, grammar, videos, lessons, dictionary, pronunciation (audio), etc.
Punipunijapan — The site teaches Japanese in a complete way with child-style videos.
Japanese Level Up — An English site, very much in the style of AJATT (by Khatzumoto), but that also created its own “methodology” for studying Japanese.
Nihongo Shark — Nico is another “guru” of Japanese, one of those who “hacked” the language. He shared his sentence and kanji decks on Anki, they are very good!
Japanese Tools and Dictionaries
Jisho — The best online Japanese dictionary, the site is in English but has meanings in Portuguese. Here you can find all the details about Kanji, vocabulary words, sentences, phrases, and much more.
Japaneseverbconjugator — A site where you can find conjugations of various verbs in Japanese.
Similarity — A site for finding similar kanji.
Ba Ba dum — A small game where you must answer the meaning of the word by choosing the correct image.
Easyjapanese — This site provides useful tools for people who want to learn Japanese, such as games, flashcards, quizzes, etc.
Tangorin.Com —A dictionary in the same format as Jisho, but you can save the vocabulary (and sentences) studied and export it directly to Anki.
Tatoeba — One of my favorites. It is a “phrase dictionary,” or rather, a collection of phrases and translations. It is available not only in Portuguese and Japanese but in most languages, full of phrases and audio pronunciations.
Newsletter Sites to Learn Japanese
Ricardo Cruz Nihongo – By signing up for Ricardo Cruz’s waiting list, you receive emails with free weekly lessons, access to a downloadable book, and some exclusive content. He also offers a complete paid course.
Nihongo Kakumei Club – A subscription service, a complete monthly online Japanese course taught by Monica Velozo, who graduated in languages from UFRJ and specializes in various services in Japan, at JICA, and in the Japanese Newspaper.
Yamada Tarou – A rather unusual sensei who teaches Japanese in a different way.
aulasdejapones.com.br — A perfect site with simple and complete quality articles. Sensei Luiz Rafael and his team have written quality articles and have helped thousands of people learn and fall in love with the Japanese language in a simple and quick way.
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