TheMoeWay (learnjapanese.moe)

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Best for: Setting up an immersion and sentence-mining routine

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Overview

Free community guide to learning Japanese through native media. It lays out a study order (kana, Anki decks, grammar, then immersion) and has step-by-step setup guides for Yomitan, Anki mining and text hookers for visual novels. Opinionated: it pushes heavy immersion over textbooks.

Strengths

Free
Detailed setup guides for Yomitan, Anki and visual novels

Drawbacks

Strong opinions; not everyone wants immersion-only
A guide, not a course: you do the work

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