about nihonese

What (really) is Nihonese?

Nihonese is an informal japanese guide made by some random grade 9 kid for his computer science project. And he submitted late. Because he planned too many features and wasn't able to complete them in time. Subarashii, random kid.


The Random Kid

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Lance Libatique

picture may not reflect what i look like in real life

Hello! Welcome to Nihonese. I am the sole creator and designer of Nihonese, you may call me Galaxy Brain-sama. Thanks for using the website, and have fun learning japanese.



Some Japanese Study Tips

If you're planning on using this website for practicing your kana writing, then go for it! It's pretty complete in that regard.


However, I strongly, highly recommend that you search for other japanese learning materials as Nihonese is far from an exhaustive learning program. It's pretty flawed, actually.


One major thing that Nihonese doesn't practice is writing. Another is pitch accent. Another is actually how to even form sentences and talk.



Here are some good sources for either, if you ever want to sound less like a スーパーがいじん and more like a native japanese grade 1 student. I myself identify as 日本の赤ちゃん, capable of uttering japanese-esque sounds once in a while.


Good Japanese Learning References

Click to go to the corresponding website.

Jisho

Jisho is a useful dictionary for learning new words and kanji. They have data like stroke order for kanji, or jlpt level for words. It's great.

Tae Kim's Grammar Guide

For learning the grammar-side of japanese in a less textbook way.

OJAD's Prosody Tutor

A useful AI-based pitch accent analyzer. Sometimes not accurate, but useful for simple phrases.

Wiktionary

Sure, complain all you want about wikipedia and friends, but the pitch accent data on there's incredibly useful. Especially since it's one of the few sources available online.

Dogen-san

Cool teacher. Has a paid patreon account with 80~ japanese pitch accent lessons, but also his japanese comedy videos are just fun to watch.
Before you go and study, 'waste' some time and laugh, won't you?

contact us:

Social Media/Random Links

nihoneseofficial@gmail.com
facebook nihonese page
twitter.com/nihonese
fav japanese youtube channel
fav vtuber peko

Thank you so much for using Nihonese. Again, good luck and have fun with japanese.