Resources
All kinds of resources with content in or for Japanese. If you have any suggestions, inform me through TG or GitHub. I advise you to read everything, there may be interesting things for you.
Other guides and resources
TheMoeWay - The most popular guide at the moment with the biggest community.
TheMoeWay Resources Discord Channel - a place where everyone can share.
Lazy Guide - A very good setup for Anki mining, it massively inspired my website.
Jo Mako's Guide - A lot of useful information, especially for the more advanced users of Anki, counting know words, selection of content by difficulty, etc.
日本 Resources - A random list of resources and is quite old, but there could be something useful.
Rentry Resources - some other resources for Japanese.
Information about Japanese
Dictionaries and translators
Yomitan search - Search inside your Yomitan dictionaries. Can be opened by pressing the extension icon and clicking on magnifying glass.
DeepL and Google Translate are 2 best machine translation tools, and both have pros and cons.
Immersion Kit - Search for a word in anime clips with translations. You can copy cards into Anki.
Filmot - Search for words in YouTube videos. Words of 2+ Kanji should be to put into quotation marks, and you should choose the Japanese language. A very big advantage - you can choose to parse only manually created subtitles.
Youglish - The same as Filmot, but autogenerated and handmade subs are mixed together.
JPDB.io - a very convenient primarily English Dictionary (has some other languages and even a monolingual dictionary but with less entries), a convenient search for Kanji and readings, you can use instead of Anki for flashcards, see guide here.
Jisho - A very good web bilingual dictionary.
Goo - Very big bilingual AND monolingual dictionary.
Kotobank - Japanese Encyclopedia-Dictionary.
Glosbe - Dictionary with translations of sentences made by the community.
weblio - A huge bilingual dictionary with examples.
Reverso - Examples of the word in sentences and translations of sentences.
AI chat bots are also able to translate and explain some things, but imperfect.
Japanese Corpora
Grammar
IMABI - A modern alternative for Tae Kim's guide, it is probably a better option.
Tae kim's Guide - The most popular guide, was the best option for beginners, but very short. There are some inaccuracies and strange interpretations, but you will see people talk about it everywhere.
Tae Kim's Guide (Anki) - Most of the guide above, but in the form of flashcards. I myself started with it, it is very convenient. Also, some inaccuracies of the original guide are fixed there.
Mainichi Nonbiri - The website is completely on Japanese, a lot of information and grammar sorted by JLPT levels
Cure Dolly’s Organic Japanese - A very good guide showing Japanese grammar from a completely different perspective. Personally, a huge number of things there are explained in a way that just makes sense. The only downside is the quality of the audio.
Cure Dolly Complete Transcript - Transcript of the videos above, if it is easier to read or you dislike her voice.
Organic Japanese with Cure Dolly - Cure Dolly's website, lots of good info.
BunPro - A very convenient tool for learning Grammar, has SRS for a subscription (SRS is not recommended)
Maggie Sensei - A website with a bunch of grammar info.
Tofugu - The site with info suited more for beginners, many different interesting posts.
Linguistics
Panates' drive - A collection of panes linguistics books by Panates, collected together with a recommendation list for beginners. Some of it is in Russian.
Помощь
Japanese StackExchange - Website for questions about Japanese
HiNative - A site for questions about any language.
Asian Languages Learning - a Discord channel with a bunch of people and a section of Japanese.
TheMoeWay Discord a server for the Learnjapanese.moe community.
Japanese media
Media by difficulty
Jo Mako's Spreadsheet - A huge sheet with different media.
[Natively] (https://learnnatively.com/)- Literature by difficulty.
JPDB.io - A bunch of different media rated by difficulty, but difficulty is measured only in terms of vocabulary. Also, the algorithm has a strong bias to shorter works, but there are a bunch of settings.
Video
Subtitles
Jimaku - New website, the main source of subtitles for anime in Japanese. There is almost everything. It contains the Kitsunekko database, but it is much more convenient.
Kitsunekko (legacy) - one of the sources for Jimaku.
Japanese Movie Subtitles - Directory with subtitles for films sorted by directors.
Matchoo95 Subtitles - some different subs.
jpsubbers- Database of subtitles for dramas
jpsubbers - subtitles archive for drams (it seems to be smaller than the one above)
D Addicts - Forum for the dramas, there is a chance to find some there.
Аниме
Рутрекер - Russian torrent tracker, has lots of content and many seeders.
Nyaa.si - most popular Torrent tracker.
Aniwatch.to - A site with a small number of films, anime and drama, but there are also Western ones with dubs. The website has a built-in Yomitan (word lookup), full access for a fee.
Crunchyroll - Anime online with no hassle.
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus - there is a lot of anime there recently, specially Netflix. Also Western content with official dubs and subs for it (they are not the same though). With a Japanese VPN you can get access to a good amount of anime in Japanese.
Дорамы\Кино
RuTracker - Some dramas and movies.
Nyaa.si - Some dramas and movies.
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus - mostly Western content. There is an official dubs and subs (they are not the same though). With a Japanese VPN you can get access to a good amount of drama in Japanese.
Bagikuy - drama.
Rakuten Viki - drama online.
Crunchyroll - has some drama.
Minidrama - download MKV dramas.
Raredoramas - For “rare” dramas.
Japanese TV online
aqstream - Japanese TV
xhzb - a Chinese site, there is a section with Japanese TV
TVer - Japanese TV
Kwakami TV - TV online, has the most content.(Android)
Reading
Manga
Mokuro Moe - Directory of Manga passed through Mokuro, the best option for beginners. You can use Yomitan on the manga.
Bilingual Manga - Manga in Mokuro format, you can read simultaneously with English translation, but there is little content.
Further options are for RAW manga, in which to lookup words you need to use OCR or guess.
nyaa.si - A lot of manga torrent.
Hakuneko Manga Downloader - Can be downloaded in Japanese with tags raw andjapanese
Klmanga - Manga online.
Mangareader.to - Manga online.
Rawkuma - Can be downloaded or read online.
Literature
YomuJP - Texts for beginners.
Itazuraneko Extended Ebook Novel - The largest book database.
nyaa.si - More common literature, torrent, the most convenient option.
Boroboro - some EPUB are not on Itazuraneko.
Syosetsu Web Novels- Only web novels.
Kakuyomu - Only web novels.
Aozora Bunko - Classical Japanese literature, which is over 50 and is accessible legally.
Z-library- A large collection of books, including Japanese.
Graded Readers MEGA Archive with books for beginners graded for beginners.
VNs and other games.
sukebei.nyaa.si - 18+ version of Nyaa.si (http://nyaa.si/), there are much more VNs.
RuTracker- It is u Russian tracker, but it is enormous and has lots of japanese media.
RyuuGames - Lots of VNs.
RyuuBlogger - Lots of VNs.
NoPayStation - rips of PlayStation games.
Listening
Condensed Audio
This is an audio taken from anime or other video content, pauses between the lines of dialogue are cut out of it. For beginners, it is a great option, it is much easier than podcasts. It is recommended to listen to stuff you've already watched.
Podcasts and radio
Google Podcast - The Japanese version of the site, immediately shows recommendations in Japanese.
Japanese Podcast Spreadsheet - links to specific podcast
Podcast Republic - Change the country to Japan and look at popular.
On platforms like YouTube or Spotify you can search for 聴く anime and find plenty of stuff similar to CD Drama, which uses easier language than most podcasts.
Audiobooks
Audiobook Collection - Some audiobooks
May be interesting
Я СХОЖУ С УМА НА ЯПОНСКОМ - My telegram canal about progress and whatever.