Japanese Learning
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- Reference: Education: International: Language Schools: Japanese (5)
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AJALT - Association for Japanese Language Teaching. Offers private, group, and online lessons.
Alessandro's Home Page - Japanese grammar written in English and Italian (intended for manga translation).
Charles Kelly's Web-based Japanese Language Study Materials - Free online quizzes, flashcards and word lists. Covers romaji, hiragana, katakana, kanji, Japanese newspaper words, and reading signs.
Communicating With the Japanese - Offers examples of how English influenced contemporary Japanese.
Elementary Japanese Language Course - Nihongo Shoho - Full course (34 lessons) based on the book Nihongo Shoho, with mp3 files, vocabulary trainer, word and kanji index, and other resources. Some free lessons, most content requires purchase.
Griffith University: Basic Japanese Resources - Features an introduction to 400 basic kanji and basic grammar information.
Japan Culture Study Group - Several Japanese lessons and explantions made by Japanese instructors.
Japanese for the Western Brain - A series of articles outlining the basic parts of Japanese speech from an English-speaker's perspective.
The Japanese Language - Explains usage of some particles, grammar and vocabulary.
Japanese Language Learning for Mobile Phones - Japanese-language learning for small screen devices, as well as computers. Also enables students to create their own lists of kanji and vocabulary for study via a database.
Japanese-Online - Free Japanese language lessons and translated math story problems from Japan's jr. high math placement tests.
Japanesepod101.com - Several podcasts that teach Japanese from beginning to intermediate levels. Requires registration. Only some content is available free.
Joyo 96 - Free online resources, advice, and links to recommended books and other study aids. Also features a Japanophiles email list.
Kana - Downloadable program from Purdue University which teaches hiragana and katakana through visual and verbal mnemonics. Includes flash cards and guessing games.
Kana Flashcards - Kana online learning tool.
Kanji Clinic - A column appearing every third Friday in The Japan Times aiming at providing practical advice to non-Japanese adults striving to become literate in Japanese by learning the 1,945 general-use kanji. It is written by Mary Sisk Noguchi, associate professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan.
Kanji Game - Free online game with multiple levels of difficulty, matching kanji characters to their meanings or hiragana and katakana characters to their pronunciations.
The Kanji Site - A step-by-step guide to hundreds of kanji, with random testing and a search function. Intended for JLPT study. Works on machines without Japanese support.
KanjiLearn - Online flashcard program and dictionary of 2135 kanji.
Kanji-Step - Various learning resources, including animated guides to learning kanji, hiragana, and katakana, as well as more advanced lessons. Also features placement tests, book and multimedia reviews, a forum, and a penpal registry.
Learn How to Wow in Japanese! - Learn interesting Japanese while having fun. Grammar, kanji, culture and a little bit of everything Japanese for free.
Learn Japanese Kana - Offers printable charts of hiragana and katakana characters as well as the most basic kanji. Also features a kana matching game.
Learn Japanese Online - Introduces basic Japanese with flash quizzes that test kana and vocabulary.
Learn-Japanese.net - A forum dedicated to the study of the Japanese language.
Lesson/J - Java applet offering listening comprehension exercises at various levels of proficiency.
Mainichi-Kanji - Introduces a new kanji on each weekday, with readings, meanings and examples. On weekends the week's kanji are reviewed. The site can be viewed on any computer, no Japanese fonts are required.
NHK Japanese Lessons for English Speakers - Japan's publicly-funded broadcasting corporation offers free audio lessons.
Nihongo o Narau - Learn Japanese - Covers basic grammar and vocabulary.
Nihongo Pera Pera (Fluent Japanese) - An introduction to computer software and study techniques for becoming fluent in Japanese.
Online Japanese Study - Free website offers beginning and intermediate online textbook with corresponding tests, as well as information on different dialects and a notice board for meeting conversation partners.
Pera Pera Penguin's 5-minute Japanese Class - Offers short conversational Japanese lessons from a 15 year teacher of the language.
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese - Webpage version of the sci.lang.japan guide to basic Japanese grammar and syntax.
Real Kana - A simple site for learning and practicing hiragana and katakana, the two Japanese syllabaries.
Reiko-chan's Japanese for Anime-Lovers - Web based lessons on Japanese, with links to lessons on the writing systems.
Rikai - Free site that allows you to read Japanese kanji on any webpage by passing your mouse cursor over the characters.
Teach Yourself Japanese - With introduction, basic writing system, grammar, vocabulary, and dialogues.
Teach Yourself Japanese - Features instructions for learning hiragana, basic phrases and vocabulary lists, and basic grammar information.
Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo - Offers language practice on several grammatical exercises in Japanese.
Web Japanese - Today's Kanji, daily and monthly columns for students of the Japanese language.
WordMate: Learn Japanese Fast - Selling a 4-hour tape and workbook for learning basic Japanese.
Japanese Podcasting Lessons - Learn basic Japanese through video podcasts. [RSS] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.