Previous thread reached >>1000 and was nothing but spam anyway, but feel free to check it https://4-ch.net/language/kareha.pl/1475864701/l50
https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/ -- Tae Kim's guide to japanese.
https://jisho.org/ -- online japanese dictionary.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10ten-ja-reader/ -- instant popup dictionary for firefox.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/10ten-japanese-reader-rik/pnmaklegiibbioifkmfkgpfnmdehdfan -- same for chrome. After the genocide of older firefox extensions there are many rikaichan clones around, I'm not sure which one is the best.
Also there is a "Translation request thread" in https://4-ch.net/nihongo/ , feel free to ask there.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170702141418/http://amaterasu.tindabox.net/guide/
Ixrec's Guide to Japanese
Apparently I can use F9 or ctrl-t to type ｗｉｄｅｔｅｘｔ with microsoft IME. Other F buttons do similar things.
I wonder why 青 can mean both blue and green, maybe 緑 is a later addition to the language?
緑青
青緑
there's a whole theory about this
also traditionally the rainbow was seen as having just 5 colors in east asia
(precisely due to having less recognized colors)
japan used to recognize just 4 colors initially (black, white, red and blue)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/色名#日本語の色名とその語源
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Color_term_hierarchy
virtually all languages seem to have followed this pattern
it's really green-blue but (since it's not differentiated yet)
and it was meant to be the color of plants
<- so the color of his eyes
alternatively they were meant to be all the colors of the sky
("""red""" in the traditional color scheme was very much the color of dawn/dusk)
well wiki explains as much
「アケ（朱）」「ア（明）ける」「アカ（明）るい」と同源で、夜が明けて明るくなるという意味から色の赤に転用されたもの。
white, the color of life
black, the color of death
red, the color of blood
blue, the color of her eyes
apparently you need to type wyi to get ゐ
https://www.pc-gear.com/post/wyi-and-wye/
I hacked my 3DS and been playing this on it when I'm out and about https://www.consoleroms.com/roms/nds/my-japanese-coach-learn-a-new-language-u-xenophobia but you could also play it on your computer with an emulator!