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Pine's Ridiculously Long List of Free Japanese Study Materials
First Month Edition
All my current study materials, because sharing found resources is caring. These are not JLPT-specific and are for pre-beginners to beginners like me. I can't believe I have been studying for a month. Comparison is truly the thief of joy. I am a slow learner, but that's okay. Find a community because it truly does make a difference. Shoutout to Seitokai's Nihongo Discord, and to @tokidokitokyo whose post let me know about it and is just overall a great person too.
Main study material: Marugoto Online A1 Self-Study Kastudoo and Rikai with downloaded PDF and Wordbook (my original post about it)
Supplemental references:
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (The only NOT free resource in this list, sorry! The e-book sold on Amazon does not have good reviews as it's a scanned copy of the book, rather than a properly formatted e-book. A free alternative to this is JapBase which also contains Intermediate and Advanced content.)
Marugoto Plus which accompanies the Marugoto courses and includes videos, audio files, etc.
Apps: Anki, Renshuu
Anki decks:
Tatsumoto's Kana (Recognizing and Writing)
Tatsumoto's AnkiDrone Sentence Pack V7
Official KanjiDamage Deck (from the creator of KanjiDamage, crude language warning for both the deck and the site)
Marugoto A1 Rikai Katsudoo 2021
Dictionaries:
Rikaitan browser extension (installed JMDict English V4, JMExtra, 日本語文法辞典(全集), and Kanjium)
Takoboto app (with offline access)
Other resources:
Sukiruma for practice writing sheets
Reader Ttsu for reading Japanese materials on a browser (used in conjunction with Rikaitan, since I couldn't find an e-book reader that I can install a Japanese dictionary in)
Sousakuba for downloadable genkouyoushi without watermarks
Youtube:
Favorites marked with a ⭐️.
Comprehensible Input for what it says on the tin, in bite-size formats
Daily Japanese with Naoko for vlogs with Japanese subtitles
Dogen for the funny videos that you can learn from and/or relate to
Game Gengo because Japanese learning through games, and has JLPT geared content if you're looking for it
Gino Kei who has shorts teaching Japanese in a not so serious way
Hiro - Food in Japan for cooking videos, not in Japanese, but these make me crave for Japanese food anyway so that counts
⭐️ Japan Eat for Japanese food commentary in English and also makes me hungry. So, yeah, not in 日本語 but it's delicious so that also counts
Japanese Koro mostly for kana reading practice which actually helps you get short serotonin boosts for when you do actually get to read the words correctly
Japanese Quest which plays games in Japanese
⭐️ Japarrot! for fun, animated comprehensible input videos
Let's ask Shogo for culture content
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Matcha Samurai for delightfully unhinged culture content, debunking Japanese misconceptions one video at a time
Namba Tsuyoshi for no narration Japanese walk with me style vlogs, very chill and relaxing
⭐️ NihongoDekita with Sayaka for fun, short grammar content
ShekMatz Japan has videos/playlists where she teaches Japanese in Tagalog, so if you can't understand Tagalog, you'd better skip it
Sora The Troll because why not
⭐️ Takashii from Japan is honestly one of my favorites, even before I started learning Japanese. His interviews are just really good!
Taro's Sewing because my toxic trait is thinking I can sew the cool things they post. Also comes with short Japanese commentary on screen
Tokyo Lens counts as uh, immersion even if it's not in Japanese, but it's in Japan so that counts? Yeah, let's go with that
もしもしようすけ for Japan vlogs/walk with me with Japanese and English subtitles
Yomii Japan Piano if you like piano and the occasional trolling
Japanese Calligrapher Takumi because my other toxic trait is thinking I can write this beautifully
"Don't go into the long grass!" - Jurassic Park: The Lost World You'll either find some #pokemon in there, or get eaten by #raptors . #throwback to those wonderful #summerdays we had a week or two ago. #britishsummer ehy?. . . . . . . . . . . #jurassicpark #jp2 #jptlw #tlw #thelostworld #dinosaur #grass #tallgrass #jp #longgrass #geek #popreference
Sneak-peak! Been working on this 1:32 scale (if i remember right) utharaptor sculpt the past few weeks when i've not been working or moving to my new flat. "Wings" need work, and then there's only the tail fan and texture details left to go! It's a very chunky bird this one! I decided to go with a half-lip on this one. #miniaturemaking #art #artist #paleoart #paleoartist #paleoarte #utahraptor #dromaeosaur #velociraptor #sculpture #sculpt #sculptor #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #jw #jp #jurassicpark #jurassicworld #cretaceous #dinosaur #dinosaurart #dinosaurartwork #supersculpey #supersculpeyfirm #wip #workinprogress https://www.instagram.com/p/BuED14Tlqy7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wyhxt6rffj4l
Sirius: James? Can I ask you a question?
James: What is it Sirius?
Sirius: It's kind of an emergency question...
James: What is it Sirius???
Sirius: Well...imagine if you'd bought a baby hippogriff, where would you accomodate it?
James:
James: Please tell me that's a joke and that you didn't-
*Sirius opens wardrobe door*
Sirius: It was kind of an impulse buy. His name is Buckbeak...
The best prankster (James Potter x Reader)
Request: I’m not sure if you are still accepting requests, but if you are, can you please do a James Potter x Reader imagine? The girl is in Gryffindor but she’s very lowkey, and all she wanted was a proper education but there’s this stinking group of boys who always disrupts the class. She’s usually quiet and just brushes off the boys’ pranks until James Potter blew up her cauldron and she thought her grades were in danger so she retaliated. She’s stubborn like crazy and won’t stop until she wins
a/n: so these past imagines i’ve written are requests i got a long time ago. if you recognise your request, i’m really sorry. i almost abandoned this blog for good, but now i am determined to stay!
Warnings: probably some yelling/cursing
Masterlist
School was very important. Education was really important. At least, to you. You could’ve gone to a normal muggle school, learn about basic mundane things, which, weren’t exactly useless, but most of them didn’t require use in day to day life. When you got your Hogwarts letter you were bursting with excitement. Not only you were going to learn something new, but you were learning magic! That is why you wanted to be at the top in every class, you wanted to prove yourself worthy of being there, and also because purebloods always mocked you for that. You wanted to prove them wrong.
There was only one problem — four very, very problematic boys who called themselves “the Marauders”; very ingineous, what could you say. They caused some kind of trouble in every single class, whether it was just a little paper airplane thrown at the teacher or there was some explosion of some kind. Always trouble. Though, you never said anything, you let it slip past you, but it annoyed you very much. They were always a distraction from your education.
As you entered the Potions classroom, you got to your seat in the front of the classroom, being one of the first to get there. You arranged your stuff on the desk as the classroom filled with kids. The Marauders entering amongst the last, you couldn’t help but notice they all had an amused expression on their faces. You scoffed. Of course they had something planned for today. You glared as James Potter smirked at you. Whatever they were planning you weren’t going to let it ruin your class.
The professor entered, greeting the class, as he took his seat and started telling us about a potion called Skele-Gro. He explained the history of it and told some facts about it. He told us to gather the ingredients and start making the potion. After a few minutes he wanted to see how our potions came out, but as he tried to sit up, the chair got up with him. You rolled your eyes. So this was the prank? Pathetic.
“Who put a sticking charm on the chair?” Professor Slughorn asked calmly, but there was a warning tone in his voice. Of course, he didn’t have to ask, we all knew who were the pranksters of this school. No one answered. “Perhaps, Mr. Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew would like to explain?”
Everyone looked at the four boys. Even they looked surprised. James got his hands up in defense and said: “We didn’t do that, Professor.” He sounded annoyingly sincere. So there was someone else who decided to be a prankster?
“Then whoever did this, would you care to explain yourself before I give you all Veritaserum and—”
Professor Slughorn wss interrupted by a really loud sound. You jumped from the sudden noise and then realised it was coming from your cauldron. Your eyes went wide and you started panicking. What did you do wrong? You never did something wrong, and even when you did, it was something small and it didn’t sound like a dragon was about to give birth in your cauldron. Within a few seconds, your cauldron started shaking and excessively spreading smoke. Then it exploded. The potion was all over you and half of the students.
“Now that we did.” You heard James Potter behind you and then he laughed. He had the nerve to laugh when half of your grade was spread all over the classroom.
You were furious. That was the last straw, you couldn’t take it anymore. Who were they to think they could mess with everyone without any consequences? Red from anger, you turned so you were facing them. “You fool, you absolute fool! Who do you think you are, messing with my potion like that?! You think you’re so funny and intelligent with all of your pranks, when, in fact, you are all just assholes!” And with that you gathered your things and got out of the classroom.
You were angry. You wanted to scream or punch someone, but you decided you were going to fight fire with fire. The Marauders didn’t know what was about to come.
***
You decided to hit where it hurt most. You had a prank in mind for each one of the Marauders, each one being a planned, organised one. You went for light pranks for Remus and Peter, as they seemed the most down to earth. Especially Remus, he actually liked learning like you do, you noticed, and Peter, well, he usually got influenced by the others. They didn’t annoy you as much, so you simply put a charm on Remus’ books as to everytime he would try to open them, they would snap back closed immediately. Peter, you also put a charm on him as to everytime he took a turn on the corridor, he would appear in another one, and so he would get lost. That was easy.
As for Sirius and James, you had to really prepare this. You thought about it for a while and then something popped into your mind: what makes Sirius snob? His hair. So you sneaked into their dorm when they were off doing another prank and poured pastel pink hair dye into his shampoo and put a spell on it so it would last a week.
“Who in the name of Godric Gryffindor put hair dye in my shampoo?!” You looked up from your book and saw Sirius standing in the common room, a horrified expression on his face, but most importantly, his hair was pink. You hid your laugh as you buried your face back in your book. It was a good prank, but it was irritating how he managed to look annoyingly good even with pink hair.
James was next and last on your list. You were going to hit him where it hurt most — his pride.
***
You were in the hallway as were the Marauders and other students. You were leaning against the wall and watched them, as they all had smirks on their faces, even Remus, like they always looked before a prank. You already knew what was coming. Or rather, you knew what they thought what was coming. You’ve watched them for the past couple of days and saw what they were planning. What they didn’t know, though, was that you twisted it.
You looked at James and as if feeling your stare, he looked back at you and his expression changed from mischevious to what looked like guilt. It was only for a second though, because their prey had just entered the hallway and he had to focus his attention back on his plan.
As the poor guy (that was not so poor thanks to you) passed, James quickly did a movement with his wand. You see, what was supposed to happen was a bucket of slugs to fall on the guy’s head. As the guy passed by them and nothing happened, the Marauders’ expressions changed quickly from mischief to confusion and they looked at each other in disbelief.
Then, in a matter of a second, a bucket fell on James Potter’s head with a loud bang. He removed it quickly, looking bewildered. His head was covered in slugs and his hair was sticking out in every direction possible, thanks to a little charm you casted. Everyone laughed at him as he tried to remove the slugs from his face; even the rest of the Marauders chuckled lightly, but confusion was still very visible on them.
You quickly walked towards them and said: “Not so good when the one being pranked is you, is it?” You looked at all of them smirking and walked away.
As you were approaching the Gryffindor common room, you heard someone calling your name. “Y/N, wait!” You turned around and saw James running towards you, his face still covered in slugs and his hair still a mess. You wanted to laugh, but abstained with a very amused smile.
“Yes?”
“I, uh—that was clever,” he said chuckling. “We all clearly underestimated you.” He picked a slug from his face and threw it on the ground.
“Yeah, you did,”, you said, crossing your arms at your chest.
“Come to think of it, I was going to apologise about Potions class, I thought you were so upset that you might not even give me a chance.”
You frowned. “A chance at what?”
“Couldn’t you tell? I was trying to get your attention. And that wasn’t the only time, but for some reason you never noticed.” He smiled. “Remember when I threw paper airplanes at Professor Flitwick?” You simply nodded. “Well they were aimed at you,” he continued, “they even had a text written on them asking if you would go to Hogsmeade with me, but thank Merlin it was charmed to be seen only by you; if Flitwick would have seen that…” he trailed off.
You laughed. “I was upset at you, you know, I kinda still am. School means a lot to me.”
“I’ve noticed.” He nodded.
“And my grades are important to me.”
“I’m sorry,” he said and you believed him. His tone was sincere. “I didn’t think it would go as far as to mess with your schoolwork.”
You smiled. “I accept your apologies.”
“So, would you like to go on a date with me? Without pranks, as hard as it is to say that.”
You thought about it. The way you were always obsessed with them and their pranks, you always thought James was the most annoying one, which was really a reason to excuse yourself from thinking about him. Deep down, you were attracted to him, too. “Yeah, I’d like that.” You smiled at him.
“Uh, can you help me with these?” He gestured towards his face and hair. “Since, you know, it’s you that caused it,” he joked.
“Of course,” you said and took a step closer to him and reached for his face. You placed a hand on his cheek, while the other one picked slugs from his face. Very romantic, you thought.
He smiled cheekily at you. “You know, if we’re gonna be like this everytime you prank me, please do that more often,” he said. Indeed, you faces were very close and he was looking at your lips. You leaned in and your lips brushed.
“Nice, so now can you tell me how to un-pink my hair?” You suddenly pulled away, only to find Sirius standing a few feet away from us. Oh, you weren’t going to do that very soon. He looked very good with pink hair.
Here’s a little render (digital painting?) of Bull from Jurassic park 2.
not my usual style, but a fun little thing I tried out.
