Victory Manual

I have the impression that most foreigners who study Japanese get frustrated by the inevitable homophones which accompany a language with so few vowels. However, I prefer to think of them as very useful tools - Mnemonic devices!
I’ll repost my most recent mixi.jp entry below as an example of this.
外国人にとって、日本語の同音異義語は、意味の誤解になる原因だと言われているが、
一方では記憶術として使えるので、便利だと思う！
「東大は学界の灯台」
日本語では分からないが、灯台は英語にするとa light houseで、船を案内する機械という意味だけではなく、「案内して、明らかにすること」という定義も持っているので、「東大は学界の灯台」といったら、「東大は学界の一流」という意味になる。
引き続き、「東大は当代の学界の灯台」もできる。

Toudai in Japanese [...]

I thought I’d share with all of you other Japanese language learners out there a(nother) novel way of studying, this time with the Japanese version of Wikiquote.
It couldn’t be more straightforward, really. You just look up the name of one of your favorite writers, and there you have some of their best works translated [...]

Mrs. Victory Manual, who has passed both JLPT level one and the JETRO Business Japanese Test, shared her very own manuel de victoire with moi.
In very scientific terms, she told me that the secret winning study strategy for the JLPT is, “choosing one textbook and studying it from cover to cover.”
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Very anticlimactic. But, I’m [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I watch Japanese dramas for both entertainment and for study, and I briefly wrote about a couple that I was watching at the time, but for those of you who are new to the Japanese drama world and don’t feel like wading through a lot of the just-plain-trash-dramas, allow me to [...]

Here’s what I want:
It works like a search engine, only instead of returning links with a brief description of the page contents, it extracts the entire sentence of the keyword(s) you input. Of course, the title of each page is still linked to the page so you can click it to see the sentence [...]

My personal favorite site in Japanese is 教えて！goo, an open forum for questions on a wide range of topics. (I enjoy reading the 国語 forum)
Another goo site that I like is the インターネット調査 - goo リサーチ site, which features the results from a variety of surveys.
What Japanese sites (in Japanese) do some of you [...]

Here are a few tips for using Google to study Japanese. I call it the Japanese Google Guide, or the J2G.
[From alljapaneseallthetime.com]
Vocabulary in use
Navigate your way to google.co.jp and plug in a word you’re curious about. This will yield hundreds upon thousands of examples of the word in action.
[From japannewbie.com]
A comprehensive picture dictionary [...]