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A guide to help you get started with learning Japaneses. Trying to learn a new language can be overwhelming at first, but this guide will give you some pointers about where to start and links to many useful (and primarily free!) resources.

Let's talk about some of the websites I've used in the past and still use today. I've been learning for a long time and have amassed quite a collection of bookmarks in my browser. In this article I'll share some of my favorite online resources with you, including a whole bunch of dictionaries and websites with reading materials.

The Japanese writing system is one of the first hurdles that anyone trying to learn the language has to overcome. So I decided to write a little bit about its history and how it came to be what it is today.