Japanese And Spanish Again 2016 (PINNED)

Sick for a long time, now attempting to do this all over again.  New version Rosetta Stone for Spanish brushing up. Wanikani, Rosetta stone, and Human Japanese (app for IOS) for Japanese.  Starting again as I have forgotten so much.

Still trying to do Level-Unit-lesson order for Rosetta stone (before the computer this disc works on dies, which will mean the end, as this is such an old disc that it no longer works on modern computers due to conflicts with operating systems, or something).

Spanish: 
Rosetta stone, version 4, I think it is. Will just note down information that is new and useful.

Websites that are useful for Spanish:
Spanish Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/latino
shows: Zou (children's show)
Tierra de Reyes (telenovela)
About.com spanish resources: http://distancelearn.about.com/od/isitforyou/tp/FreeOnlineSpanishClasses.htm
Sources for Spanish Language videos: http://howlearnspanish.com/2012/09/spanish-videos-subtitles-free/
Spanish news - http://www.bbc.com/mundo
Good spanish dictionary - http://www.spanishdict.com




Japanese:
Rosetta stone - old, will jot down useful information to remember.

Websites that are useful for kana:
Very detailed chart of kana: https://tinyurl.com/yc7fmvxx
Personal Kana sheet (to print and make your own chart): http://www.textfugu.com/free/personal-kana-sheet.pdf
Hirgana chart: http://www.textfugu.com/resources/hiragana-chart/
Methods to learn hiragana: http://www.textfugu.com/season-1/reading-writing-memorizing-hiragana/4-6/
Katakana chart: http://www.textfugu.com/cheat-sheets/katakana-chart/
Methods to learn katakana: http://www.textfugu.com/season-3/learn-katakana/2-2/
Real Kana has a website, but it's somewhat broken now. However, the app for IOS works very well and there is a link to where you can find the app on the website: http://realkana.com
Tofugu hiragana - a method using visual images to help remember kana shapes, might be more effective for some. https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/
Tofugu stroke order chart: http://www.textfugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hiragana-stroke-order-chart.pdf (note, や is incorrect on this chart, with strokes 1 and 3 reversed)

Practicing Hirgana and Katakana:
Drag and drop hiragana - http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/hiragana-timer.html
Drag and drop katakana - http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/katakana-timer.html
Writing hiragana and katakana - http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/writing
Great practice for fast recognition of kana - http://lab.fleon.org/type-kana/
Nice, easy space invader type game for kana - http://www.valiantls.com/games-for-learning-japanese.html
Warrior game that builds up kana knowledge - http://www.kongregate.com/games/tukkun/kana-warrior
Printables for writing practice, hiragana - http://www.guidetojapanese.org/pdf/hiragana_trace_sheet.pdf
http://japanese-lesson.com/characters/hiragana/hiragana_writing.html (contains blanks, too)
Printables for writing practice, katakana -
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/pdf/katakana_trace_sheet.pdf
http://japanese-lesson.com/characters/katakana/katakana_writing.html (contains blanks, too)
hiragana and katakana with combinations for modern borrow words included https://www.coscom.co.jp/hiragana-katakana/kanapdf/renshuu_hiragana.pdf


Websites useful for Kanji or general learning:
Textfugu - japanese learning program, first lessons free to try out: http://www.textfugu.com/lessons/
Wanikani - made by textfugu folks, for learning kanji: https://www.wanikani.com
Tae Kim's Guid to Japanese - many believe is one of the best guides out there. Don't know if I agree, but it's been dead useful so far, and it's free to boot. http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/
Good information on Radicals and what they are: http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa070101a.htm
Good list of Radicals for Kanji: http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/radical-names.html
Lessons for learning to write kanji: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/kanji_main.html
Nihongonomori - youtube lessons: https://www.youtube.com/user/freejapaneselessons3
Erin's Challenge - lots of lessons, many formats, video: https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/
Tofugu - Japanese culture blog: https://www.tofugu.com
general learning, including cultural - https://www.coscom.co.jp/index.html
On on'yomi vs. kun'yomi, and general info -https://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/how-to-determine-onyomi-and-kunyomi-of-each-kanji-character.html
also on'yomi vs. kun'yomi - with some differences of opinion -https://www.fluentu.com/blog/japanese/onyomi-and-kunyomi/
Kanji readings - what do the '.' and '-' mean? -
1. https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/38681/what-is-the-meaning-of-dots-and-dashes-in-kunyomi-readings
2. http://forum.jisho.org/discussion/1197/-and-in-the-kanji-yomi/p1
The official jōyō kanji list published by the Agency of Cultural Affairs - This is very long, and ALL in Japanese, so it can help with kanji, but only if you can read enough Japanese. - http://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/sisaku/joho/joho/kijun/naikaku/pdf/joyokanjihyo_20101130.pdf


Apps useful for Kanji or general learning:
Good list of Apps for learning Kanji that are popular with native speakers- http://www.fluentu.com/japanese/blog/best-kanji-apps/
'Pibo -Japanese Picture books' by Ever Sense, Inc, for iOS - huge collection of japanese children's books, all stories have read along audio.
Human Japanese - app for IOS, beginning Japanese lessons. Very straightforward.  Made the more sense to my autistic child than any other language program. Great use of the media.
'Learning Japanese' by Ronald Timoshenko, FREE app - this is the app version of Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese, which many people think is one of the best guides out there.
lingodeer - highly recommended, with a kind of wanikani style, for beginning, early intermediate japanese, chinese, or korean learning.

Websites useful for learning to read Japanese:
Children's book recs: http://www.fluentu.com/japanese/blog/learn-japanese-picture-books/
Satori reads - in beta, reading material for japanese learners, by the folks who created 'Human Japanese: https://satorireader.com
Jisho.org- good for translating, including looking up radicals, how to write kanji: http://jisho.org
Many sources recommended by Tofugu (listed below)
Kodomo times - a newspaper aimed at children with more difficult kanji translated for you. (may no longer be up, I think) http://www.chunichi.co.jp/kodomo/
Kodomo Asahi - a newspaper aimed at children. Orange link goes to elementary school level paper, blue link goes to middle school level paper. http://www.asagaku.com
Asahi Shinbun - adult newspaper - https://www.asahi.com
News Web easy by NHK - news with simple kanji and vocab, but also audio included so you can listen along.   http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/20120824_k10014498931000.html
Traditional Japanese Children's Stories - these were created by a japanese language teacher, so there are translations. http://life.ou.edu/stories/
Fuku Musume's Fairy tale collection - http://hukumusume.com/douwa/betu/
Fantajikan youtube - the audio (and written) stories from fantajikan site (latter which is no longer up)   https://www.youtube.com/user/fantajikan/videos


Websites useful for learning Japanese Grammar:
particle ga vs. wa: http://www.fluentu.com/japanese/blog/japanese-particle-ga-wa/
particle ne: http://www.fluentu.com/japanese/blog/japanese-grammar-particle-ne/
particles ka, ne, and yo: http://www.japaneseprofessor.com/lessons/beginning/the-sentence-ending-particles-ne-and-yo/
particles to end sentences: http://www.fluentu.com/japanese/blog/japanese-sentence-particles/
Grammar for conversational fluency: http://www.fluentu.com/japanese/blog/improve-conversational-japanese/
Japanese grammar guide: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar

Websites useful for learning Japanese conjugation:
WaniConjugation - for WaniKani users, to practice conjugation of verbs/adj: http://waniconjugation.co.nf
verbix: http://www.verbix.com/languages/japanese.shtml
The ultra handy japanese verb conjugator: http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com

Websites useful for Japanese Vocabulary:
Japanese counting words: http://www.tofugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/japanesecounters.pdf

Websites for daughter learning sessions:
Super beginning lessons - https://thetruejapan.com/how-to-learn-japanese-a-guide-for-absolute-beginners/
beginner lessons - https://thetruejapan.com/learning-japanese-for-beginners-a-complete-guide/
super beginner kanji - http://www.japanese-lesson.com/characters/kanji/index.html
(check beginner lessons for more kanji)
THIS level is where http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar is recommended.

Good lessons to check out after learned a little bit - https://www.japanesepod101.com
recommended as useful - https://iknow.jp


Websites useful for advanced Japanese learning:

- NINJAL-LWP FOR TWC - lots of data on words - common particles, commonality between words, etc... - http://nlt.tsukuba.lagoinst.info/compare/
- Reading materials on subjects you love
- THE "A DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE GRAMMAR" BOOK SERIES (there are three levels, beginner, intermediate, and advanced, each with its own book) - I have found these at amazon.com
- conversations on 'Facetime, Facebook Messenger, LINE, Skype, Google Voice' with other people. Or call up and talk to japanese businesses, hotels, that sort of thing. Will need to make some friends and keep up with them, for this!
- teaching it - when learn, teach it. Jot down notes whenever something wasn't entirely clear to you when teaching, and go through it again. Basically, the feynman technique. 

Japanese Rosetta Stone - Unknowns (PINNED)

Questions I have from Rosetta Stone, Japanese, that I don't have answers for yet. This will be continually updated, and items erased once I figure them out.

Rosetta Stone Lesson Summaries Spanish(PINNED)

Because I sometimes want to go back and review, and can't recall which lesson the information is in!