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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Tofugu Comments - Latest Comments in Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://tofugu.disqus.com/</link><description>Japanese Culture and Language</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:08:40 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-10602394</link><description>&lt;a href="http://learn-japanese.heroku.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;Japanese FAST&lt;/a&gt; is good too.  It's not free but it's cheap and easy to get started.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Japanese FAST</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:08:40 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-8894885</link><description>Hey, have you heard of Namasensei? If it wasn't for him I would've NEVER started practicing. xD&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEA54VJEdE&amp;feature=PlayList&amp;p=9987A659670D60E0&amp;index=1" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEA54VJEdE&amp;feat...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Basically, he has video classes in youtube(homemade), that teach you hiragana, grammar, and all those begginer stuff. But he does it in such a motivational way that nothing else can. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is THE way to shake your lazyness off and actually start studying.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hey, lemme know if you already knew it, and what you think of it. ^^</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Pexe</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 10:39:59 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-8609948</link><description>gee thx!! ^_^</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ginkgo7</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:48:54 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-8221146</link><description>arigatou gozaimasu.hontou ni!</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">thuy</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:24:55 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-7518008</link><description>Thanks Koichi for your article. I will put a link to your article on my site: Under 日本語の勉強。&lt;br&gt;I have been using Rikaichan for quite a while now and it really help to learn the kanji (help to forget as well as one tends to get too lazy, but this is another question). I will test the rest of your sugestions.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Again thank you for your tips and congratulation for your blog&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://denisevents.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://denisevents.wordpress.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Denis</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Denis</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:37:44 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-7127228</link><description>Why has the Iknow site change so much??? =| it was better before</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Seth</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:39:34 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-6732579</link><description>No minding here - thank you for linking!</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">koichi</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:44:14 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-6731172</link><description>Wow! This post is so good, I hope you don't mind if I link to it from my Squidoo lens on Language Learning.  Doumo Arigatou Gozaimasu!</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">EditorDave</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:07:13 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-6654207</link><description>I actually found your video on youtube, and I just have to say thanks a million! (even though I am already using lang-8 and 電子辞書 )&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;I took my JLPT level 3 in December (fingers crossed...) and now I feel kind of stuck, so hopefully the things on the list can give me a little push.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">BlueNanoBox</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:50:40 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-6167276</link><description>whats your lang-8 account?</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">youtube</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:55:01 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-5722161</link><description>I.Love.You.&lt;br&gt;no homo.&lt;br&gt;arigatou!!!</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Baghera</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:26:58 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-5514276</link><description>Don't forget, Tae Kim also has a great forum here: &lt;a href="http://www.guidetojapanese.org/forum/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.guidetojapanese.org/forum/&lt;/a&gt; There's also me and many others there to help you if you have any questions, in addition to asking questions of our own.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">violagirl23</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:48:28 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-4829575</link><description>please try this site, I think it is good for practicing Kanji :&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.readthekanji.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.readthekanji.com/&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">chi</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:28:27 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-4723762</link><description>Thanks for the share. :) Great resources.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Alexis</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:27:23 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-4584782</link><description>check &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.learn-japanese.co.in" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.learn-japanese.co.in&lt;/a&gt; this site</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">sakura</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:16:20 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-4363476</link><description>For really good kanji and vocab learning, aimed at the JLPT and kanji kentei, check out &lt;a href="http://renshuu.org" rel="nofollow"&gt;renshuu.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's free and the best site I have seen for cramming kanji and words into the brain.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">sendaiben</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:47:38 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-4062813</link><description>I downloaded Rikaichan but It doesn't work for some reason.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">GameGod652</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:42:20 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-3573899</link><description>@Ally&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Same here on the Livestation front - it was mentioned there are about 15 Japanese channels - I can't bloody well find them. Help god dam it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;p.s I nearly wet my pants when i used Rikaichan for the first time. I will be writing about my Japanese learning adventures here, so drop by &lt;a href="http://learning-japanesey.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://learning-japanesey.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Kerubin</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:40:15 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-3491510</link><description>Wow. I will forever be in your debt for putting this list of resources together. Any single one would have made my day, but to have a full list of amazing aids blows my mind.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now my only problem is where do I start! O_o</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Schism</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:10:40 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-3432794</link><description>I'm trying to use livestation but i can only find about six japanese channels, and only one works!  anyone know what i could be doing wrong?</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ally</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:40:01 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-3430589</link><description>Great links. I would add that &lt;a href="http://kanji.koohii.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://kanji.koohii.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com&lt;/a&gt; are two great sites to use. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Reviewing the Kanji is a great flash card application that goes hand in hand with the book "Remembering the Kanji", which has shared user stories to help put the ability to recognize and write kanji in your hands. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;All Japanese All The Time is just a great blog to get motivation and ideas to become FLUENT (speaking, listening, reading and writing) in Japanese in a reasonable amount of time (less than two years).</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Nukemarine</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:16:54 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-3381628</link><description>&lt;a href="http://mogo2.jp/top" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://mogo2.jp/top&lt;/a&gt; is a good alternative to Twitter if you just want all Japanese to read.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Ross</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:59:45 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-3336122</link><description>Usually you're pretty good, but today u are really the man.  A few of these look so good for learning.  I'm already using them.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Seth</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:43:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-3328895</link><description>I use iKnow and Tae Kim's now, but Anki is good for learning stuff and I like to use KeyHoleTV for Japanese television.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tackada</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:59:45 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free</title><link>http://www.tofugu.com/2008/10/21/top-10-online-resources-for-learning-japanese-for-free/#comment-3321437</link><description>Thanks for the great list!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What's your user name on iKnow?</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Musouka</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:25:24 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>