Saw that Duolingo isn’t great and want to know if there’s a better free alternate. Also looking for something that will explain the differences and uses of katakana, hirigana, and kanji, because it all seems so confusing to me.
Japanese from Zero videos on YouTube. If you have the book, there’s a video for each unit, however you can follow it without the book.
Irodori. Free pdfs and mp3s. Made by Japan foundation to get technical workers to N4 easily and smoothly.
Busuu has been fantastic. Primary learning device I use.
https://minato-jf.jp/ I like these courses. Don’t know of the Kana and Kanji courses of them, but the language courses are good.
Japanese from zero YouTube channel. I recommend eventually getting the books but you don’t need them right away if ever. He goes through his books lessened by lesson. So while you don’t need the books they’re helpful. I watched a lot of the videos from his first book before buying it.
Cure Dolly YouTube channel for grammar + renshuu.org for flashcards with a globally cross linked dictionary (so you can start progressively showing the kanji you learn in the vocab you already know).
Just started renshuu. It’s simple and fun. I love the option in “text analizer” where I drop song lyrics and it adds the furigana .can also select words and create flash cards for my favorite songs
7 comments
Japanese from Zero videos on YouTube. If you have the book, there’s a video for each unit, however you can follow it without the book.
Irodori. Free pdfs and mp3s. Made by Japan foundation to get technical workers to N4 easily and smoothly.
Busuu has been fantastic. Primary learning device I use.
https://minato-jf.jp/
I like these courses. Don’t know of the Kana and Kanji courses of them, but the language courses are good.
Japanese from zero YouTube channel. I recommend eventually getting the books but you don’t need them right away if ever. He goes through his books lessened by lesson. So while you don’t need the books they’re helpful. I watched a lot of the videos from his first book before buying it.
Cure Dolly YouTube channel for grammar + renshuu.org for flashcards with a globally cross linked dictionary (so you can start progressively showing the kanji you learn in the vocab you already know).
Just started renshuu. It’s simple and fun. I love the option in “text analizer” where I drop song lyrics and it adds the furigana .can also select words and create flash cards for my favorite songs
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/