A Select List of Japanese Language Study Sites These may not be all the very best sites, but these are definitely some of the best. Recent Addition RomajiDesu/dictionary (Hai Bui Hoang) Based on Jim Breens EDICT and KANJIDIC. Includes advertising. Added 2012-09-13 Hiragana and Katakana Beginners may want to jump to the Kana Links that are near the bottom of the page. Tools to Help Read Japanese Web Pages Plugins for Firefox or Chrome Rikaichan (Jonathan Zarate) *** Highly Recommended *** Free *** A Firefox plugin that has similar features to Rikai (see below). You can put your cursor over any word on the resulting page to get the reading and the English meaning. If you havent yet upgraded to Firefox (Its free), then this is a very good reason to do so. ADVANTAGES: This even works offline. There is also a word lookup (dictionary) function that makes many of the other EDICT dictionary lookup programs obsolete. For example, you can enter 飼っている and it will find 飼う for you. This means you can copy and paste things as is to get meanings. Rikaikun - For Chrome and does about the same thing as Rikaichan does for Firefox. Furigana Injector An extension for Firefox or Chrome. Its cool because you can include a list of kanji that you want it to ignore. Jim Breens WWWJDIC Server - Text Word Translation Input Japanese in the form (or enter a URL) and get a page generated with all the words looked up for you already. One important advantage this one has over the next one is that you can print the results to paper, then read the text away from a computer (while commuting, etc.). rikai (Todd Rudick) Enter a URL, then put your cursor over any kanji on the resulting page to get the reading and English. (This didnt work with some browsers I tested it with.) popjisyo (Alex Schonfeld) This is similar to rikai. However, it has the advantage of working with more browsers. WordChamps Web Reader You dont need to register, so just ignore that part. This doesnt recognize various verb conjugations like Rikai and PopJisyo do. Try Charles Kellys Bilingual English-Japanese Random Sentence Generator via WordCamp (The direct link is Bilingual English-Japanese Random Sentence Generator - 英日文章自動生成プログラム). The rest are for reading help (hiragana or romaji) only, no English definitions. furiganizer Copy and paste in Japanese text, click the button, then see the same text with Furigana. hiragana.jp Adds hiragana after the kanji. (This can be used without logging in.) Adaptive Technologies Furigana Web Page Converter You dont need to register or have a password, so just skip to the bottom of the page to enter a URL. FEATURE: You can even get Romaji furigana, if you want. This makes it very easy to see what was not on the original page. Kakashi Web Front End: Read Japanese Websites in Romaji (Joel Yliluoma) Converts web pages from Japanese characters to Romaji. Tools to Help Read Japanese Text These also help read a web page. You just have to copy and paste the text into the form. Reading Tutor Toolbox (Yoshiko Kawamura) Input some Japanese text into the form and get a page with clickable words that show readings and English in another frame. ふりがな（学年別配当漢字使い分け） (Kotoba no Mori) Input some text, and get color-coded kanji by (Kokugo) grade level and also get furigana. J-Talk Kanji to Hiragana/Romaji Parser (Gary Ross) Input some Japanese text and have it converted to Kana or Romaji. iGoogle Widgets - Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1 Random JLPT Vocabulary Level 1 - Any Browser Version (Words written in Kanji) For any browser Random JLPT Vocabulary Level 1 - Firefox with Rikaichan (Words written in Kanji) For the Firefox browser with the Rikaichan add-on installed. If you are using this combination, then this is the better choice. Not only do you get more words each time, but finding the reading and meaning of unknown words is much faster. Kanji Search Search Kanji in CKs Kanji Dictionary RSS Feeds yookoso - Daily Elementary School Grade 1 Kanji JapanesePod101s RSS Feed Quizzes to Help You Study Kanji Learn the Japanese Kanji (Roger Meyer) Java applet for browsing, quizzing, etc. Uses Jim Breens materials. 1 to 60, 61 to 120, 121 to 180, 181 to 240, 241 to 300, 301 to 360, 361 to 420, 421 to 480, 481 to 540, 541 to 600, 601 to 660, 661 to 720, 721 to 780, 781 to 840, 841 to 900, 901 to 960, 961 to 1020, 1021 to 1080 Jesse Lakes Kanji Game Requires a newer browser, 67 levels, randomly generated multiple-choice quizzes with 8 choices.The color scheme makes it a little difficult to see the choices. Words with Kanji from Japanese Newspapers - Flash Quizzes & Flashcards There are 560 quizzes each with 50 words. The words were chosen in the order of the frequency in which they appeared in 4-years of Mainichi Newspaper. Quizzes on Commonly-used Japanese Words (Sorted by Kanji) (Charles Kelly) Multiple-choice Flash quizzes using all commonly-used words for each kanji. WebJapanese.Coms Kanji Challenge Uses the Suntac CGI to give you human-made multiple-choice questions. Entering a fake email address is OK. There are also Kanji Worksheets on this website. Web-based Kanji Exercises (Tomoko Marshall - University of Virginia) JavaScript quizzes on kanji, vocabulary, comprehension etc. Quizzes to Help You Study Vocabulary & Grammar Minna no Nihongo 1 and 2 Vocabulary Quizzes (Larry Battle) English-Japanese Vocabulary Quizzes Randomly generated multiple-choice JavaScript quizzes GCSE Japanese Class (Quia) Animal Vocabulary, Place Names, Weather/Seasons, Kanji Matching, ... Grammar Quizzes (Kumiko Kaneniwa) 12 five-question quizzes Chez Scheis CGI Flashcards using EDICT Data OFFLINE when check in April of 2010. - A little slow because of the CGI interface. Okayama Universitys Study Materials Offline when checked in April of 2010 Minna no Nihongo - Practice (Requires Flash) Yookoso! Media Edition Matching quizzes. kahome.co.uks Flashcards The JavaScript didnt work on Apples Safari Browser. 日本語教育能力検定試験 試験I対策：スペースアルク quiz - 1 question per page フ ナハシ学習塾ゲーム 外来語言い換え¨ Game (Funahashi) See a katakana word and choose its (kanji) meaning. Vocabulary Flashcards proprofs/flashcards/search.php?tag=true&search=Japanese Visitor submitted flashcards (You may find mistakes on these.) The Japanese did not display properly for me when I tried it in April of 2010. However, many of the flascards are Romaji, so that may not be a problem that matters to you. Some Japanese Quizzes Found on quizlet/subject/japanese quizlet/set/6401/ Ultimate Japanese Bk 1: Chap. 20 Vocab. quizlet/set/4121/ Lesson 1 Japanese 1 quizlet/set/3021/ Japanese for Busy People I: Lesson 1 quizlet/set/1454/ Japanese Compound Verbs quizlet/set/1404/ Accountancy Glossary quizlet/set/1059/ JLPT4 Kanji Useful for those using the textbook, Adventures in Japanese 2 [quizlet/user/msjapanese/] quizlet/set/45260/ quizlet/set/45256/ quizlet/set/45254/ quizlet/set/45046/ quizlet/set/45043/ quizlet/set/45038/ To find more, try these searches: quizlet/search/japanese/ quizlet/search/jlpt/ quizlet/search/kanji etc. Romaji Quizzes digitaldialects/Japanese.htm Phrase & Greetings, Colors, Animals, Numbers, Days and Months, ... Games Crossword Puzzles (for advanced JSL students) check.0ch.cx/ then look on the left side of the page, after scrolling a bit. This may still be the direct link: check.0ch.cx/x_hira1/. I had to reset the encoding to read the menu page. Browse and Study Lists of Kanji 2011 GSF Jouyou Kanji (by Con Kolivas) - English meanings and example words with English meanings, based on Jim Breens work. 2011 GSF Jouyou Kanji - All on one big page - Good for loading into your mobile device before disconnecting from the Internet. JLPT Level 2 Kanji Dictionary (Paul Dixon) Mayumi Ishidas Kanji Practice (Dartmouth College) Kanji data cards with (MIT) QuickTime movies and sound files reading the sample sentences. Kinkis Kanji Dictionary Jim Breens materials put together in an interlinking, easy-to-browse way for study. Whiteknightlogics KanjiDB Jim Breens materials .... (Very similar to Kinkis Kanji Dictionary) Mahou.orgs Kanji Dictionary Jim Breens materials. Interfaced with the English-Japanese sentence examples, too. (Radical Select) Japanese Kanji Dictionary with Pronunciation (Kunihiro Tanaka) You can listen to the words for the first 400 or so kanji. Gahoh (By Masayoshi Kanai) Includes QuickTime movies showing stroke order. These sites have apparently licensed his material. Gahoh.MarineBat tufs.ac.jp/st/personal/99/kawatsu/gahoh/English.html Usagi-Chans Kanji Stroke Order (Andrea Shea) Looks like Gahohs QuickTime Movies. I got moji-bake on my computer and the wrong kanji were sometimes displayed. Griffin Universitys Kanji Study Approx. 400 basic kanji are introduced with their readings and examples of usage. Kanji Alive (Harumi Hibino Lory & Team) Requires QuickTime v6.5. Japanese fonts arent required. If you have read the documentation already, save time by jumping directly to the 60_QTcheck.mov and click the fan. KanjiSite (Chris Jennings) Study for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Kanji lists and quizzes. Yookoso Books (Univeristy of Colorado) Uses MITs Kanji Project materials. (You may need to mess with your encoding preferences.) Fujikos Nihongo Page Browse kanji lists and test yourself with multiple-choice JavaScript quizzes. Meguro Language Centers Japanese Study Files PDF files of word, verb, grammar list for JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) and free materials and quizzes for Japanese Language. thbz.orgs JLPT vocabulary (Unicode) (Thierry Bézecourtt) Vocabulary used on the 4 levels of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test Japanese Language Proficiency Test Kanji Linked to Online Dictionaries (Charles Kelly) Browse the lists and click on the ones you dont know to jump to an online dictionary. jlpt.renshuu.org (Michael Hominick) Browse lists of kanji and vocabulary. Kanji Writing Tutor (Blake Edward Sterzinger) Some cards (basic kanji only) that include animated GIF files showing the writing. theJapanesePage2s Kanji Study JLPT Kanji lists and a randomizer. PDF files of Kanji, too. The advertising is a bit much. Nihongo Shohos Kanji List by Frequency No readings or definitions, but you can create a sheet for practicing your writing. AJALTs 漢字で学ぶ日本語 (Kanji De Manabu Nihongo) (Kiyotaka Yasui) Its all images, so you can use it even without Japanese fonts. The writing is a bit fuzzy, thus slow to read. A Door to the World of Kanji See a picture of everyday objects, click and read. Henshall Kanji Mnmonics (Kenneth Henshal) Elementary school kanji - no definitions or readings 筆順教室 (ひつじゅん きょうしつ) Requires Flash. See stroke order, readings and a few words using each kanji. Semuels Remembering the Kanji Helper Site Based on the book by James W. Heisig. See the Practice Pages Auto Generator. kanjinetworks (Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto) Etymological Dictionary of Chinese Characters 森の学校 - 楽しい学習ページ For Japanese elementary school children, but good for kanji review for non-native speakers, too. kanji-trainer.org (Ulrich Neymeyr) Flashcard-like training for kanji, with vocabulary, too. uPal: Associative Kanji Learning There are quizzes and sentence examples, too. Kanji Lookup uPal: Japanese-English Dictionary Search Using Hand Writing Recognition You can write the kanji with your mouse to find it. Vocabulary Lists Michael Kluempers Quia Activities in Romaji Usagi Chans Genki Vocabulary Lists (Shea and Masuyama) sorted by lessons used in the Genki textbook. A Japanese Dictionary for Beginners 入門日本語辞典』（第２版） 2004年10月 A free, downloadable 5,000 Japanese word list with English definitions, by the ³¤³°¤ËÆüËܸ춵ºà¤òÁ÷¤ë²ñ Glenn Rosenthals Vocabulary Lists Various lists for students at UCLA. Jim Breens EDICT An extensive, downloadable file. Each line = [Japanese - Reading - Part(s) of Speech - English] Many web-based dictionaries use this. Nihongo Shohos Vocabulary Lists Done with images, so you do not need a Japanese font. Elementary vocabulary kahome.co.uks Vocabulary Lists Word lists for the books Japanese for Busy People, Japanese for College Students, Nihongo Shoho and SL Japanese ab initio. Nihongo o Narau - Romaji Vocabulary Lists (Domini Lyman) Adjectives, Animals, ... kantango (Raymond Fix) Requires registering. However, when registering, a fake email address works, so you can avoid the potential of receiving spam. Choose words from Jim Breens EDICT, then do flashcards. e-japanese.jp (Yoshimichi Iwata) Of special interest are the JLPT word lists in Excel format: Pre-2010 Lists: Book4.xls, Book3.xls, Book2.xls, Book1.xls Hiragana - Romaji - Kanji - English (You do not need to register to download these.) Vocabulary Flashcards for studying for the JLPT (Markus Dreyer) Formatted PDF files for printing. WordChamps Food Vocabulary and other lists. Many of the words have audio files, so you can practice your pronunciation, too. WAKEwakaru: French-Japanese Glossary (Alain Cote) Not a traditional vocabulary list, but you can browse 5 words at a time. Start. David Hallgrens Nihongo Website - Vocabulary Lists for Genki Try the printer friendly links. (Note on July 5, 2006, it seemed that there are some character set problems on some of his pages.) LanguageGuide.org/nihongo/ (Thomas Blackmon) It is recommended to use Netscape or FireFox browser for this site. Other browsers may not work jpf.org.uks vocabulary lists Vocabulary lists in PDF and EXCEL formats mit.edu/seantek (Sean Leonard) PDF file vocabulary lists. Nihongo de Care Aimed at nursing and caretaking, but some parts, such as Basic Expressions 500, are good all of us. Things to Listen To Audio That Is Good For Pronunciation Practice and Intonation Practice japanese-phrases.sakura.ne.jp - Japanese Phrases for Travelers (Yuu Gotoh) Videos Tokyo Gaidais Japanese Study - English Menu Other languageguide.org/nihongo Beginning level vocabulary with audio. Dest Nalsas Readers (Click Japanese on the lower left.) Can be appreciated even by lower level students. By the Australian government. NHKs Weekly Japanese Lessons Streaming RealAudio. (From shortwave Radio Japan) MP3 Japan You can download NHKs Radio Japans Japanese lessons archived as MP3 files. NZAJLTs Photo Essays Try these online versions with MP3 files: Momoko, Junko and Kayo. ECIS Internet Broadcast (Richard Harrison & Yoshimi Iwasaki) Weekly RealAudio with the text. (Nagoya University) KISC Nihongo Channel (Richard Harrison) Perhaps this is just a mirror site of the Nagoya University site above. I havent had time to look through this site. (Kobe University) MangaRama - Digital Comic Learning System Comics shown and read using QuickTime. English translations and explanations on the page. Nihongo o Manabou Beginning dialogs done with Flash. 31 Basic Sentences with Speech (Jouji Miwa) These could be used for listen & repeat practice. AJALTs ちまたの日本語 (Real World Japanese) Click the word GENERAL or BUSINESS AJALTs Survival Japanese In Romaji. Apparently RealAudio files, but they didnt play on my computer. AJALTs Learning Supplements for Japanese for Busy People Learn to say numbers, some verbs and some adjectives. WordTheQue - Texts and MP3 Files Mukashi-banashi (old tales) Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training Requires Flash, for beginners. Click the Japanese link on the lower left. Podcasts A Few Favorites - Not Aimed at JSL Students These are not aimed at JSL students, but if you understand Japanese fairly well, they are good. Blog 表現よみ作品集 - Stories (Audio Book Style) njuku/ - RSS = feeds.feedburner/Nihongo-juku eigonikki/ - Its really designed for Japanese studying English. However, there is more Japanese speaking than English speaking and a complete transcript is available on the web site. RSS = feeds.feedburner.jp/eigonikki JSL Podcasts For Beginners JapanesePod101 - Daily Perhaps a bit too much time-wasting laughing and joking around and non-study related chatting between presenters, but still very good. (See hints) If you cant easily locate the podcast feed on their website, just grab it here. NEW RSS - japanesepod101/wp-feed-audio.php OLD RSS = japanesepod101/feed/rss/ learn-japanese.podomatic - Some are video, so wont work on all MP3 players. RSS = learn-japanese.podomatic/rss2.xml Yuriko Sakamotos I Hear Japanese - This series, developed by Yuriko Sakamoto and David Boxer for eighth grade students at the Windward School, provides instruction in grammar, vocabulary, and bilingual texts. RSS = homepage.mac/yurikosakamoto/rss.xml jedutainment/jedu/ (Ed Rooth) Words spoken with a male voice (English) and a female voice (Japanese), along with background music. Japanese.libsyn For beginners. He uses native Japanese speakers for the sample dialogues, etc. Nakama Vocabulary Video Podcast (Satoru Shinagawa) See the English, then hear the Japanese. Even for those without a pod capable of playing video .mp4 files, these are useful if viewed online Talk Sushi - Learn Japanese (Nick Kemp) He has a native Japanese speaker on each show. Somewhat commercial, promoting services he sells. RSS = talksushi.libsyn/rss For Intermediate to Advanced Students voiceblog.jp/amane あまね☆ごえ Female Voice: Not aimed at JSL students, but she has a beautiful voice and these are high quality short recordings. Good for repeated listenings. Nippon VoiceBlog Apparently aimed at non-Japanese. Tanscriptions of the show are on the web site. (Not recently updated.) voiceblog.jp/reiki 櫻 怜祈（サクラ レイキ） Female Voice: Not aimed at JSL students, but high quality recordings without background music, so good for language study. Sort of an audio diary. (Last updated on December 14, 2006) voiceblog.jp/taa 題名未定キャスト Male Voice: Not aimed at JSL students, but includes a transcription. (Last updated: July 16, 2006, 7:00 pm) Japanese Classical Literature at Bedtime RSS = jclab.wordpress/feed/ A list of directories with podcasts in Japanese Perhaps good to find conversational listening practice. voiceblog.jp blog.seesaa.jp/contents/genre/0271/0001.html pod.ladio.livedoor dedio.jp Things to Listen to with Scripts These could be considered part of the above section as well. Streaming RealVideo News with the exact script of what the announcer says. Focus Tokushima fnn-news tv-tokyo.co.jp/biz news.tbs.co.jp/ Video news with the scripts paraphrased. (Not exact transcriptions.) headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/ A collection of links to current news stories. Things to Read with Help gonihongo (Mayumi Ishida) Some reading material with some vocabulary help. Hiragana Times - Daily Lesson (In Hiragana) Its also available in Romaji. チュウ太の読解教材 バンク (Kawamura, Kitamura & Hobara) Things to read pre-made with Reading Tutor. E-Kanji Reading in a 3-part frame with clickable kanji that show the reading and English in another frame Kongetsu no Nihongo 24 Lessons with furigana as PDF files or Word files. Petit Kanji (Patrick Benny) Song lyrics with furigana and clickable kanji to get meanings and other words with the same kanji. news.kids.yahoo.co.jp News with furigana for all kanji. NOW OFFLINE: Mainichi Shimbun - ニュースの言葉 Part of Mainichi Kids so all kanji has furigana. Things to Read You could use some of the Tools to Help Read Japanese Web Pages listed above to help you read some of these pages. Aozora Bunko (青空文庫) インターネットの電子図書館 / Free Electronic Texts e-bungeikan Japanese Text Initiative For example: Kappa (河童) Tijus Notebook (H. Shinozaki) Text archives Shiritsu PDD Toshokan (私立ＰＤＤ図書館) The Private Public Domain Data Library 電子化された日本語テキスト (M.Shibata) Text archives Mini-collection of Modern Japanese Literature Maintained for the programme of modern Japanese literature at the University of Calgary Bible in HTML japanpen.or.jp - Novels, short stories, etc. PDF or HTML. ... Nihon Bunka Keyword Dictionary (Yoichi Sugiura and John K. Gillespie) Parallel English and Japanese readings. (I had to pop the Japanese pages out of the frameset and manually set the encoding in order to read the Japanese.) な つかしい童謡・唱歌・わらべ歌・寮歌・民謡・歌謡 Songs that many Japanese know, along with MIDI files, so you can also learn the melodies. NewsManga One disadvantage for lower-level students would be that they cant use tools like Rikaichan to help read the kanji, since the writing is all in images, which also means they cant copy and paste unknown words into an online dictionary. Video Video News from Japan ANN TV News via YouTube - Not quite live, but they upload stories several times an hour. Asahi Shinbun via YouTube - Several videos a day. Yomiuri Shimbun via YouTube - Several videos a day. Japanese Study Videos This is my blog of videos that I find on YouTube. Try it first, if you havent been there yet. Basic Colors Video See the kanji, listen to the pronunciation, see the colors, all to background music. One-minute Japanese: Animals More English talking than Japanese, but ... The Planet Names in Japanese QuickTime Movie: How to memorize the planet names in order. WeLoveJapanese A few video clips of dialogs Grammar Reference & Lessons Some Notes on Japanese Grammar (Keith Smillie) HTML Version with Kana and Kanji JapaneseGrammar.pdf (25 pages, in Romaji only) Particles (Tamae K. Prindle) Explanations. Sentence samples also have AIFF sound files. Griffin Universitys Grammar Lessons Basic Japanese grammar explained in English A Logical Japanese Grammar (Masahiko Satou) [Mirror Site] Lessons on grammar. Also check out the Japanese Conjugation Builder (in Romaji). Nihongo Guide (Tae Kim) Basic Grammar, Essential Grammar, Special Expressions, ... Nihongo o Narau - Grammar Lessons in Romaji (Domini Lyman) Basic lessons up to things like: aka - akaku nai - akaku nakatta 日本語教材の日本語駆け込み寺 (100% in Japanese) .../dictionary/dictionary.html Check out the sentence examples. Visualizing Japanese Grammar (Shoko Hamano) Click the image to watch and listen to a Flash movie. jgram.org/ Parts of the website require registering. Lessons study.U-biq.org Quite a few lessons in Hiragana and Romaji, for beginners (or review for others). japanese-nihongo - ËÌÅèÀéÄá»Ò¤ÎÆüËܸ춵¼¼ In HTML, Word Doc or PDF (RealAudio sound files, too.) AJALTs Survival Japanese In Romaji. Fundamential Japanese Lessons (Charlotte Meyer) There are 12 lessons which will take approximately 5 hours each. Cornell Universitys Japanese Learning Materials (Yuka Kawasaki) Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji (Gahoh Data), Listening, Reading, ... Nihongo Center - One Point Lessons (alc.co.jp) Conversational skills, etc. Bilingual pages. Nihongo Shoho (Elementary Japanese Language) (Bernhard Garz) 34 lessons with MP3 files and vocabulary training. Sakura - Japanese On-line - Monash University Exercises, Web Tasks & Links Pera-pera Penguins 5-Minutes Japanese Class (Hitomi Hirayama) Downloadable PDF files. (from the Daily Yomiuri). Maktos: Japanese is Possible (Jimmy Seal) 32 lessons in Romaji (2001) Also hosted on James Dunns learnjapanese.elanguageschool.net Module 1: Japanese Home Stay (University of Alabama) A free sample lesson Kana Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese By Tad Perry (1992), HTML by (John Teehan (1998), Kana by Andy Searls (2000) Japanese-onlines Lessons Introductory level. Sound files included. Info-Japans Lessons Introductory level. Grammar, proverbs, ... JinJapan.orgs KidsWeb Language Lab Basic; Hiragana Chart, Katakana Chart, Quick Kanji, 8 Lessons, Flash movies Japanese123 - Intermediate Japanese There is other stuff on this website, too, but perhaps this is the best entry point for the website. speakrealjapanese jplang.tufs.ac.jp/account/login Dialogs can be listened to without logging in. (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Study Kana (Hiragana & Katakana) Learn Those Kana (Larry Battle) With audio. Wai Wai Nihongo (Ryutaro Toyoda) HIragana games in Flash, plus more. (Voice recordings by Kaori Mizumoto) Moshi Moshi Student Activities - Requires the Shockwave plugin The Hiragana Song Hiragana Puzzle Another Hiragana Song (nekopy) The Foxs Ear: One character at a time explained to help you remember them all. Katakana Hiragana Japanese Kana Quizzes (Charles Kelly) Multiple-choice quizzes & flashcards: Hiragana and Katakana. Requires Flash 6. Zompists Hiragana Flashcards kanacards (Jonathan Stiles) Flashcards and multiple-choice quizzes using the Flash plugin. KanaFlash (Tobias Gärder) See the character, type in the Romaji (Hepburn?), then see if you got it right. Writing Hiragana & Katakana (a-chi.jp) Flash movies of stroke order. ChipChat Japanese Training (Marty Cawthon) Hiragana Drill and Katakana Drill. Requires Java. Benjamin Barretts Japanese Lesson Pages Step by step through hiragana with appropriate vocabulary and a little kanji thrown in along the way. Okayama University - Hiragana and Katakana Practice Some are multiple-choice with sound files, some are fill-in-the-blanks. Hiragana Challenge [Instructions] (Kazumi Hatasa) Requires Shockwave. Remove all the Hiragana letters from the screen by clicking them in gojuuon order. Katakana Challenge [Instructions] (Kazumi Hatasa) Requires Shockwave. Remove all the Katakana letters from the screen by clicking them in gojuuon order. Simple Hiragana (Taiji Hotta, Reiko Sato and Tomoko Watanabe) Hiragana chart with WAV files, exercises on hiragana and vocabulary. Works even without a Japanese font installed. Hiragana Chart (with a mans voice) (tokyowithkids) Click the hiragana to hear the pronunciation. Works even without a Japanese font installed. Normal Table of Japanese Hiragana with Speech (Rhonda Christensen) mans voice using .au files. There is also a Katakana page, too. Hiragana Practice (with a womans voice) (Kimi Furuta) Click the hiragana to hear the pronunciation. Works even without a Japanese font installed. Includes non-repeating animated GIFs of stroke order. AIUEO Aoi (Yuko Horii Takekawa) Hiragana practice with kids voices. Looks similar to the hiragana blocks I had as a kid. Hiragana & Katakana Stroke Order (Satoru Shinagawa) Uses Gahohs QuickTime movies Hiragana & Katakana Project (Yasuhiro Omoto) Click to see stroke order. Teach Yourself Japanese (Shinji Takasugi) Writing kana, also grammar and more. Try the Java Hiragana Flashcards. Java Game of Hiragana and Katakana (Shinji Takasugi) Click the pair of hiragana and katakana which share pronunciation Image Version for Japanese Hiragana Characters with Speech (Jouji Miwa) Click the character and hear a mans voice reading it to you. Kana Flashcards Randomly shows hiragana images. Works even without a Japanese font installed. Hiragana & Katakana Concentration Games (Shunko Muroya) This uses Dennie Hoopingarners JavaScript code. Kana Helper (jeffmk [at] myrealbox) A random character is chosen, then you click its reading on the kana chart. (Also reverse mode is available.) KanaChart (Casey Giles) You can see images of katakana and hiragana. genki.japantimes.co.jp Self study materials for the Genki textbook. Kana Game (Cathy DeMillion) Requires Flash. See the English, click the kana for the word. (dangerous, red, bright, sweet, ...) Hiragana Barabara Game See a hiragana character broken into pieces and try to guess which one it is. This is more difficult than you might expect. Help with Writing Japanese Learners Conversion Dictionaries for Japanese Input Methods (Hatasa & Chung) Helps write by catching common mistakes when inputting. (Mac or Windows) Free Software - Various Platforms (Windows, Mac, ...) ichi2.net/anki/ Flashcards: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD mnemosyne-proj.org/ Flashcard System+ Windows, Mac, Linux tagaini.net/ Tagaini Jisho is a free, open-source Japanese dictionary and kanji lookup tool that is available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux KDrill (Java, etc.) Mayjay: Japanese-English Dictionary (Zig Zichterman) Uses Java so works on Mac or Windows. (Freeware - GNU License) EDICT data. Free Software - Windows zkanji.sourceforge.net/ (Sólyom Zoltán) Windows Learning Tool and Kanji Lookup Kanji Gold Flashcards (Denton Hewgill) JFC - Japanese Flash Cards (Glenn Rosenthal) Kanji Trainer Penpen (Alex Schonfeld) A Tetris like (ie. things move and you cant stop them) matching game. Basically, you have to match: kanji character + phonetic reading + English meaning. Vashons Kana Study Aide (Kirkman Vashon) A flashcard and multiple-choice quiz program. Requires Windows 95/98/2000/NT. DreamKana (James Brown) Hiragana and katakana flash card application that does not require any special fonts or language packs. Free Software - Macintosh Kanji Invader for Nakama 1 & Nakama 2 Includes the complete kanji vocabulary sets for NAKAMA 1 &NAKAMA 2 (Makino, Hatasa &Hatasa, Houghton Mifflin) JFC - Japanese Flash Cards (Glenn Rosenthal & Da Woon Jung) Things for Teachers Japanese Mosaic (uoregon.edu) A collection of content-based curricular materials Minna no Kyouzai Members only, but membership was free when I tried it. (Use a fake email address to avoid the possibility of spam.) ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/00INDEX.html EDICT and many other files. MITs Kanji Project Build your own kanji study web pages using their materials. (For example: MIT Kanji Cards) Kanji data cards with QuickTime movies showing how to write them. 常用漢字確認ツール This will show each non-Jouyou Kanji in red. The Royalty-free Photo Gallery for Japanese language Instruction (Hatasa) 幕末明治期日本語学関連電子テキスト (H. Kaneko) 会話書, 辞書 Online Tools Online KWIC Concordancers for Japanese Text Experimental; By Yasumasa Someya Tanaka Corpus Be careful when using this. Ive personally found many errors that Ive reported and I would assume there are many other existing errors. Read this warning. Online Dictionaries EDICT (Jim Breens Japanese-English Dictionary) Jim Breens WWWJDIC Server -Word Lookup Search EDICT and various other dictionaries. Fast and clutter-free output. RomajiDesu/dictionary (Hai Bui Hoang) You may type the word in Japanese, Hiragana, Romaji or English. - Includes advertising. Japanese-English Dictionary Interface (JEDI) (Greg Peterson) Fast, clutter-free output. JapaNods Dictionary (Richard Moore) Jeffreys Japanese English Dictionary (Jeffrey Friedl) (If your computer doesnt use S-JIS, then back up the the main page.) csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict jLex Uses Jim Breens EDICT data, etc. and data from the old Tanaka Corpus apparently and not the updated Tatoeba.org version. (At least, when checked in 2011, Tatoeba.org wasnt being credited.) NihongoResourcess clutter-free version Also allows searching only within word types and substring searches. online-dictionary.biz/japanese/english/ online-dictionary.biz/english/japanese/ j-prep.net/reference/ - Free section of a commercial website. Mahou.org/Dict Does Romaji, too, though not always accurately, so be careful. freedict Apparently uses a 2001 version of EDICT Kanjidict 1.7.1 (Joel Yliluoma) Its a JE dictionary -- not (just?) a kanji dictionary. Uses EDICT (1994-2001) old data? jisho.org/ (Website is named Denshi Jisho) by Kim Ahlström tangorin/ (G.Bober) Bab.la Dictionaries: Japanese-English or English-Japanese GigaDicts Japanese to Romaji Convertor 日本語よみかた大辞典です。(１６０万項目) This does actual word lookups, so should be accurate. KanjiNetworks (Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto) It contains etymologies for the 1,945 joyo characters. Can be searched or browsed. japanese-dict/ This one has about 9,000 words, so it perhaps a good dictionary for browsing commonly-used vocabulary. There is also a hangman game. It includes Romaji as well. Sanseidos EXCEED Dictionary Goos Search Engine & Dictionary Enter a word once, then you can either search for it in a dictionary (EiWa, WaEi or Kokugo) or on the Web. InfoSeeks EXCEED Interface Sanseidos Daily Concise Dictionary, Etc. sanseido.net BigLobes Interface dic.yahoo.co.jp/bin/dsearch Shogakukans Dictionaries dic.yahoo.co.jp Same search form for: プログレッシブ和�冀�辞典 | ニューセンチュリー和英辞典 | プログレッシブ�冢唾�辞典 | 新グローバル英和辞典 dic.livedoor (Japan Knowledge) Same search for for E=>J and J=>E. Kenkyushas Dictionary dion.excite.co.jp excite.co.jp Requires an extra wait and another click. (The search only gives a list of words, so you need to click again.) Novas Dictionary Must enter something into the EMAIL address space. A fake email address is OK. Babylons English-Japanese pi-ppas J-E [E-J] Cell-phone output. Romaji input or hiragana input. These are primarily English-Japanese Dictionaries alc.co.jp/ trans.glova.jp Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary (Geo Hara) All contents are in images, so you cant use find on a page to jump to words. 英語表現事典 擬音 語・擬態語集：スペースアルク - Onomatopoeia Words Japanese-Japanese gogen-allguide Read about the backgrounds of words and where they came from (in Japanese). Pages about Japanese Guide to the Japanese Writing System (Jack Halpern) Outline of the Japanese writing system, morphology, kana and Romanization, ... Things to Read for Motivation & Hints Kanji Clinic Articles (Mary Sisk Noguchi) Previous Japan Times Kanji Clinic columns. Online Translation Please remember that machine translation is not very accurate. Powered by Amikai alice-group.amikai Excites Online (Computer) Translation nifty/globalgate/ ocn.ne.jp/translation/ so-net.ne.jp/translation/ infoseek.co.jp/Honyaku/ Powered by Systran world.altavista systranbox/systran/box Other j-server (Offline Nov. 1, 2003 when checked) Get direct links to Japanese newspapers via j-server. brother.co.jp/jp/honyaku/demo/ worldlingo Reference Counting Dictionary Refer to this when you cant remember what counter to use in Japanese. About Japan Not really language study, but studying culture is related. At Home in Japan 10 modules aimed at people doing homestays. JLPT Study Yoshida Institutes Kanji Dictionary This has Kanji listed for the (new) JLPT 5 Levels. speedanki speedanki/login.php JLPT N3 at Mund-Tandem mund-tandem/study/japanese/jlpt/n3/vocabulary/ mund-tandem/study/japanese/jlpt/n3/kanji/ tanos.co.uk (Jonathan Waller) JLPT vocabulary radio More vocabulary list Internet radio tanos.co.uk/jlpt/skills/grammar/sentences/ Text-to-Speech (TTS) - Voice Synthesizers VDS Radio You can see the Japanese text as you listen to the voice synthesizer read current news from an RSS feed. text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/ is an online Text-to-Speech generator that does Japanese fairly accurately. It reads kanji, too. sp.nitech.ac.jp/demo/open_jtalk/index.php Require Registration kanji.koohii/account/create (Remember the Kanji) ?? japanese-flashcards/ - fairly easy to use once you get used to all the popping up stuff. More... csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/jpage2.html#links_education The following are commercial websites kanjijourney/ Previously Featured Links For fun, see the bottom of this page: Text-to-Speech (TTS) - Voice Synthesizers Names in Katanaka (name.reader.bz) Learn how to write your name and your friends names in Japanese. Enter a Gaijin First Name (ファーストネーム)： Previously featured Furigana Injector An extension for Firefox or Chrome. Its cool because you can include a list of kanji that you want it to ignore. furiganizer Copy and paste in Japanese text, click the button, then see the same text with Furigana. (Furigana is Hiragana showing you how the Kanji is pronounced.) Yoshida Institutes Kanji Dictionary This has Kanji listed for the (new) JLPT 5 Levels. uPal: Associative Kanji Learning There are quizzes and sentence examples, too. Visit These First Rikaichan - A Firefox plugin. You can put your cursor over any Japanese word on a webpage to get the reading and the English meaning. Learn the Japanese Kanji - A Java applet for browsing, quizzing, etc. Free English-Japanese MP3 Files from goethe-verlag WWWJDICT - Online Dictionary Previous on Whats New Perhaps these are also listed elsewhere on the page above. (2012-09-13) v2p.jp - Watch Japanese TV or Listen to Radio in Real Time The framerate is a bit slow, but watchable. After downloading and installing the software (free, Mac, Windows, Linux), youll see a selection of stations. テレビ朝日 / テレビ東京 / NHK / bayfm78 / etc. Basic Japanese Lessons (by Koh Kia Leng of Singapore) I havent really checked this site out yet. I noticed on June 30, 2011 that coscom.co.jp now has slowly spoken news with text. 日本の出来事 コラム 天気予報 Tagini Jisho (a free, open-source Japanese dictionary and kanji lookup tool that is available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux) Its been around a while, but I noticed it wasnt listed here, so I added it June 30, 2011. MightyVerses Japanese Sentences Videos of People Saying (1,856) Japanese Sentences - Requires Flash cueflash/tags/japanese You have to register to study, but you can browse the lists without registering. (User submitted data.) quizlet/subject/japanese User submitted flashcard data, so possibly not proofread by a native speaker. TRY THIS: Go to one of the sets of Tatoeba.org Sentences, click the speaker icon and listen to how good the text-to-speech voices are. AIJ FlashCard Program (Free) Mac or Windows Its been around since 2007, but its newly-listed here. Douglas P Perkinss Free Printable Kanji Flashcards Kanji on one side, reading, and high frequency words on the other. japanese.nciku A dictionary, vocabulary lists, flashcards, etc. You dont need to become a member to use the site. japanese.ncikus Popular Vocabulary Lists You can try the dictionary from here. Submit Be patient, it may be a bit slow. Minna no Nihongo 1 and 2 Vocabulary Quizzes (Larry Battle) KanjiDamage (Henri Servomaa) Jump to Kanji Facts. Or jump to Start with the First Kanji.
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