Pronunciation
Japanese Pronunciation: A Detailed Guide (With Audio)
Cheat Sheets
Japanese Sentence Structure Cheat Sheet
Japanese Verb Tense Cheat Sheet
Giving and Receiving Cheat Sheet
Blog Highlights
Japanese Sentence Structure – The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
The Difference Between the Particles “wa” and “ga”
Ni vs De: How to choose between these two location-defining particles
Japanese language articles I have written for other websites
7 Ways to Improve Your Japanese Skills
Eating Out: A Basic Guide to Restaurant Japanese
Getting Around: A Survival Guide to Transport Japanese
Basic Guide to Giving and Receiving Directions in Japanese
Meeting People: A Basic Guide to Introducing Yourself in Japanese
Language exchange websites
HelloTalk – Language exchange website and app that connects you with native speakers to chat for free.
italki – A language learning social network that connects students and language teachers.
Interpals – An online community for meeting penpals, language partners, travel buddies or just plain old fashioned friends.
My Language Exchange – Language exchange learning via pen pals, text chat and voice chat using free lesson plans.
Dictionaries
Google Translate – Effective tool for translating individual words, proper nouns and set phrases, with pronunciation audio. Not recommended for translating whole sentences.
JapanDict – Comprehensive two-way (JP-EN) dictionary and kanji resource providing translations in multiple languages, pronunciation audio, verb conjugations and example sentences, as well as kanji readings, stroke order and radicals.
ALC – Comprehensive two-way (JP-EN) dictionary with a large database of translated sentences that show words used in context. Note that this requires Japanese reading/writing ability (which can be assisted using the Rikaikun or Rikaichan browser extensions below).
Rikaikun for Google Chrome – A web browser add-on for Google Chrome that displays the reading and meaning of Japanese characters when you hover over them with the mouse.
Rikaichan for Firefox – The Firefox equivalent of Rikaikun.
jisho.org – A powerful Japanese-English dictionary that lets you find words, kanji, example sentences and more quickly and easily.
RomajiDesu – A free online Japanese ⇆ English dictionary with several useful tools, including a bi-directional dictionary, Kanji dictionary, Japanese to English/Romaji translator, and Romaji to Kana Converter
IMIWA? – A free multilingual Japanese dictionary app for iOS.
Other
Stickk – Enables users to form commitment contracts to help them achieve their personal goals
Books mentioned in 80/20 Japanese
Fluent in 3 Months – Benny Lewis
The 4-Hour Chef – Tim Ferriss
The First 20 Hours – Josh Kaufman
Did we miss something?
If you know any other great Japanese language learning resources not listed above, let us know!