I'm pretty sure that some of us are interested by this language.
Why not sharing our links (lawful) to learn this wonderful language ?

(If you want to put a paying site, say it - that it's paying is needed)
(I don't like much putting this thread in the School and Work Lounge cause it seems it's really serious... but it's hard to find another place to put it)

So my first selection :

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm
that's a japanese newspaper, but the interesting part is :
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/ppp-e/index.htm (pdf) (japanese font for pdf)
it has got some mini lessons for the english-speakers that want to learn japanese. What I like is the author talk about some japanese customs or other things that may be strange for a not-japanese. So I sometimes read the "story" without trying to practise japanese.

http://www.nihongoresources.com/
online website (grammar, lessons...)

http://www.kanjiclinic.com/index.html (needs japanese font)
also from a japanese newspaper (Japan Times) but this one focus on learning kanji

http://www.kanjisite.com/index.html *
as it name shows... to learn kanjis (but also kanas)

http://www.thejapanesepage.com/
One of the well-known sites for learning japanese
Check the dl page to have some pdf files of 1000 kanjis.

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/index.html
a website that can be downloaded

http://www.learn-japanese.info/indexv.html
(romanji) vocabulary, grammar...

Some websites with links :
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/language.html#survival
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html (general)
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/booklink.htm (this one has classified the websites (beginner, intermediate...)
http://www.e-japanese.jp/ kind of portal about Japan and to learn Japanese

Other websites
http://www.learn-japanese.net/webpages/15/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ft5k-ymd/learn.html (pdf)
http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/doc/japanese.html
some different files

http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~sjittisa/kanji1000.pdf
I've dl and printed it... even if I can't say I use often it.

Whoa, thanks alot, now I have one more thing to do over the break.

very useful thread. Thanks for the links, much appreciated...but i lack the time to actually learn things since i am slow....lol

I'll thank you for the information. I think I'll find it useful.

Thanks for the links, really appreciate it, this is very useful.

thanks for posting the links, sorry i dont have any links to share.

Wow, thank you for sharing these links. I'll be taking Japanese starting this summer at my college, and this certainly helps.

I don't have any links to share, but I believe that a friend of mine who took Japanese in high school might have some. I'll ask him, then post them ASAP.

I'm not sure how the first two sites help you learn japanese, but it's good for japanese news and all, well at least the one after that is very useful.

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi-inon
Somewhat useful Japanese-English dictionary interface.
http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/dict
And another one, both are useful if you hear a word and want to look it up.
http://maktos.tripod.com/jip.html
Page I stumbled across a long time ago, hasn't been updated in years but still has some useful information.

i've been wanting to learn japanese so i'm very excited about this. thank you so much for sharing this.

Looks great, now I guess with time I'll slowly be able to read those japanese sites without random link clicking.

Wow! thank you, this is useful!

haha, sweetness! translation time XP

I don't think it's a good idea to learn Japanese with website.

Currently I'm also studying Japanese during my free time. I've tried websites and these computer courses, but you don't learn very much with it.
I ended with buying books from the Genki serie edited by Japantimes. I've Elementary Japanese I & II and Answer Key (for correcting the exercises).
Believe me. I've learned way more with this book than by any other means I've tried.

The nice thing about these books is that your learn step by step. First of all master hiragana and katanana complelely. Then the actual learning begins.
Different lessons, containing vocabulary, grammer, excercises, dialogs, group works, etc. They get a little harder every time.

I've finished lesson 3 out of 12 from the first book and currently know over a hundred different words, expressions, some verbs (u-, ru- and irregular verbs) and how to conjugate them for present and future tense, useage of the different particles ha, he, wo, ni, de, no. Also, starting from lesson 3, they introduce kanji and furigana. In this one, you learn 15 kanji, how to write them, different meanings etc.

The kanji from lesson 3 were:
� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � (ichi, ni, san, yon, go, roku, shichi, hachi, kyuu, juu, hyaku, sen, man, en, ji)

As for the other kanji's used, you happen to recognize them little by little in the words used as they often appear in dialogs, exercises, examples etc.

By the end of lesson 12, you're supposed to know 379 kanji. That's far more than what you need to know if you want to take the Level 1 Japanese Language Aptitude Test at the embassy :p

If you're really motivated to study Japanese, buy these books. They're really good. It's also used by Japanese universities / high schools to learn the language to transfer students.

And if you are really really serious, while not enroll in Japanology at university ?

Well, first off, thank you almina for the links. This is just what I was kinda hoping to stumble upon, all in one place, so it's incredibly convenient . I will check 'em out soon enough, as I have little to do right now.
And in response to Shuichi-Shindou's post, I'd just like to say that while books may be great, I find it really hard to get any that I'm actually interested in, since all the bookstores in my city are stocked with best-sellers and whatnot, but to find something like

Quote by Shuichi-Shindou...books from the Genki serie edited by Japantimes. I've Elementary Japanese I & II and Answer Key (for correcting the exercises).

I think it's gonna be tough, but thanks for the suggestion, too.

thanks for sharing

there's also http://www.freedict.com

i use that website when i'm doing fan quizez! ^_^

Thanks almina ! This thread is way cool! The links are great! Thanks for sharing!