Nihongo Resouces

In addition to Japanese dictionary functionality, this website offers:

• free online lessons at a university level (you need to know the kana if you want to take these lessons)
• a free grammar book (almost 400 pages, PDF)
• a good section for learning the writing systems, which includes history and useful diagrams
• a kanji learning section that splits up the 1945 jouyou (常用) kanji into 5 a day, for a total of 389 days
• several articles of interest to people learning Japanese
• information about and word lists for Kansaiben (関西弁) and Oosakaben (大阪弁)