Resources

Curated free resources beyond Japaneseness, organized by what they're best for. We don't get any kickback from these — they're just the ones we'd send a friend to.

Stroke order & handwriting

• KanjiVG — open-source SVG files showing stroke order for ~6,000 kanji. CC BY-SA 3.0. (We're integrating these into our kanji PDFs in Phase 1.5.)
• KanjiCafe stroke order — animated stroke order GIFs.

Dictionaries

• Jisho.org — the de facto English Japanese-English dictionary. Built on JMdict.
• JMdict / EDICT — the open dataset behind most J-E dictionaries. Free for any use.
• Wiktionary Japanese — community-edited entries with example sentences.

Example sentences

• Tatoeba — community sentence database with translations into 400+ languages. CC BY 2.0 FR. Useful if you want sentence pairs in a specific language pair.
• Language Reactor — Netflix subtitle tool for input-based learning.

JLPT preparation

• Official JLPT site — test schedules, levels, and past sample questions.
• Nihongo Ichiban JLPT lists — kanji + vocabulary lists per level.
• Bunpro (paid, free trial) — grammar SRS that walks you through N5 → N1 systematically.

Reading practice

• NHK News Web Easy — news rewritten for learners with furigana.
• NHK News (regular) — graduating from Easy.
• Tadoku free graded readers — free PDF books at level 0–4.

Pitch accent & pronunciation

• Dōgen — pitch accent crash course (free YouTube intros, paid Patreon for full course).
• Forvo Japanese — crowd-sourced native pronunciations of any word.

Open-source & technical

• github.com/toriiyu/japaneseness — this site's source.
• CLDR — Unicode locale data. Useful if you're building tools that handle Japanese text.
• Glottolog — the language database behind our Phase 2 plan.

Where this list ends

We deliberately don't link to “best 10 apps” roundups, paid courses promising fluency in 30 days, or anything that sells you a future version of yourself. Pick one or two from above and start.