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Find information about this year’s and last year’s JLPT test from the organization that administers the test.

Source: Japan Educational Exchanges and Services | Subject: JLPT Exam

Will at Nihongojouzu.com has a review of the Nintendo DS Lite, which apparently makes a nice alternative to the standard denshi jisho choices, especially since it includes a stylus so you can write kanji.

Source: Nihongojouzu.com / Will | Subject: Software / Tools

JEDict is multilingual dictionary for Mac computers that is capable of searching any plain text files including:
* all Japanese-English dictionaries from Monash University FTP Archive.
* Wadoku JT (Japanisch-Deutsches elektronisches Wörterbuch).
* .DIC and .DZ dictionaries from BEDIC project.
* XDXF files.
* EIJIRO files (not free).

Originally JEDict was developed as Japanese-English dictionary, therefore it supports all conceivable methods of kanji lookup. JEDict … [ Read more ]

Source: Sergey Kurkin | Subject: Translate

The sequel to the article, “making love in Japanese”, this article is intended as more of a hands-on guide to useful sex-related vocabulary. [Hat Tip to Nihongojouzu.com]

Source: Everything2.com / gn0sis | Subject: Vocabulary / Phrases

An article on the topic of how to speak about sex in Japanese and, at least as importantly, how to avoid accidental misunderstandings. [Hat Tip to Nihongojouzu.com]

Source: Everything2.com / gn0sis | Subjects: Articles, Vocabulary / Phrases

This site has animated every day situation conversations in Japanese. There are 3 levels for every conversation: beginner, intermediate and advanced and the conversation becomes of course more and more complicated (and more natural sounding) within every level.

Source: AJALT | Subject: Video / Audio

Learn Japanese with our free Japanese lessons in podcast format. We use examples from anime and everyday conversation to teach you Japanese that is useful for everyday life. Hitomi-sensei is from Tokyo and will teach you to speak with the most common Japanese accent.

Source: Japancast.net (Paul and Hitomi) | Subjects: Culture, Video / Audio

This page lists the complete JLPT vocabulary lists in UTF-8 format, as printed in the official specification book (Japanese Language Proficiency Test: Test Content Specification, The Japan Foundation and Association of International Eduation, 1994-1997).

Source: Thierry Bézecourt (http://www.thbz.org) | Subject: JLPT Exam

This site offers a variety of “courses” to help learn Japanese, including grammar, vocabular, kana, and multimedia. The site doesn’t appear to offer original material, but rather acts as an aggregator for good content found elsewhere on the Web, which can be quite useful.

Source: James Dunn | Subject: Online Lessons

Michael Engel has put together some downloadable .pdf kanji writing exercise sheets, available in various groupings. Some of the site and sheets use German, but don’t let that scare you as the important information exists in English as well.

Source: Michael Engel | Subject: Kanji

This site offers up a series of short manga panels with translations and audio readings. The manga are listed by subject.

Source: Mangarama | Subjects: Anime / Manga, Reading Material

Nihongoresources offers a semi-detailed look at kansaiben, including syntax, grammar and vocabulary.

Source: Nihongoresources.com | Subject: Vocabulary / Phrases

The Kanjiroushi website has put together 4 daily JLPT (noryokushiken) RSS feeds. Of course, I beat them to it, but the more the merrier I say.

Source: Kanjiroushi | Subject: Kanji

The JLPT Study Page, brought to you by Peter van der Woude, offers useful study materials for JLPT Levels N2 to N5. Peter has typed out past exams, translated sentences and created some basic learning materials, such as quizzes, to help check if you’re on the right track.

Editor’s Note: there is nothing for N1 and N2 and N3 have far fewer materials than N4 and … [ Read more ]

Source: Peter van der Woude | Subject: JLPT Exam

Denshi Jisho is a web-based Japanese dictionary with word, kanji and sentence databases drawn from the WWWJDIC project. The site has a simple, clean design, but beyond that it also has a number of helpful features which make it more than just a pretty interface for Jim Breen’s dictionaries.
1. search results also link to Example Sentences, Kanji Details, Goo Jisho, Yahoo Jisho, Google, Google … [ Read more ]

Source: Kim Ahlström | Subject: Translate

Want to study kanji but you left all your flashcards at home? Help is at hand because your iPod is not only musical but literate too.

kanjiPod is a program for generating sets of files for studying kanji on the iPod via the Notes feature. Programming maestros can download the Python based source code here and get cracking putting together personalised files, while code allergic … [ Read more ]

Source: curious | Subject: Kanji

The Mixxer is a free educational site for language learners and teachers to find a language partner for a language exchange. The language partner is someone who speaks the language you study as their native language and is studying your native language. The partners then meet online to help each other practice and learn a foreign language.

Source: The MIXXER | Subjects: Connecting (Groups, Forums, Language Exchange, Meetups, etc.), Language Exchange

Another excellent innovation from the chaps at mozdev.org – the Moji extension for Firefox and Thunderbird. Moji is an integrated sidebar-dictionary aimed at helping people read Japanese (and Chinese) on the web. Simply select a single kanji or a whole word from whatever Japanese text you are reading and click on the respective button in the Moji sidebar to display the kanji reading and English … [ Read more ]

Source: mozdev.org | Subject: Software / Tools

Learning in context makes sense – the relevancy of the words helps aid memorisation and use. The problem of learning words as you meet them is that you will never learn words you never meet! One way is to supplement contextual learning with some good old fashioned word lists. Then the question becomes “What words should I learn?”

A Swadesh list is a list of … [ Read more ]

Source: Wikipedia / Maurice Swadesh | Subject: Vocabulary / Phrases

A blog about “Stumbling through Japanese”

Source: Scott | Subjects: Blogs, Language Study