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Another reason to migrate to Firefox – rikaichan, from Polarcloud.com , is a Firefox extension that displays a popup showing the English definition of Japanese words as your cursor passes over them.　Enabled/disabled with a simple right mouse-click rikaichan is the perfect companion when you browse the 新聞、朝日新聞　or 日経新聞　online. But there’s more. Installing rikaichan puts a Lookup a Word item in the Tool menu – click … [ Read more ]

Source: “polarcloud.com” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Translate

speedanki.com is an interactive flashcard system designed to aid in the memorization of Japanese kanji and kanji compounds for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Though designed for the JLPT, we believe this system of memorization will be useful to any students of Japanese looking to improve their Japanese reading ability. The flashcards can be viewed in kanji or hiragana form, and flipped back and forth … [ Read more ]

Source: “speedanki.com” | Subject: JLPT Exam

This site offers Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana study quizzes, flashcards and games.

Source: “Ray Owens” | Subject: Kanji

This unique voice blog is great for reading and listening practice. Generally, posts are of various Japanese cultural topics (e.g. setsubun, business cards, geisha and maiko, Valentines day, etc.) and are long enough to be challenging but short enough to not be discouraging for less advanced students. And each post includes a native speaker reading the text. I recommend listening first to see how much … [ Read more ]

Source: “Nippon VoiceBlog” | Subject: Video / Audio

Everything you’ve always wanted to know about eating in a Japanese sushi shop (uh, sort of), but were too afraid to ask. Right here in this 8 minute documentary/comedy. For comments and more info about the original source, see:
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/12/20/silly_sushi_video.html

Source: “Google / Choi Style Productions” | Subjects: Multimedia, Video / Audio

“This is the first site to actually host online language exchange practice, thus allowing you to find exchange partners from all over the world instead of only where you live.

We host your online language exchange by providing voice chat rooms, an online dictionary, proven lesson plans from a teacher specializing in language exchange practice and your own notepad to record new words and expressions.”

NOTE: … [ Read more ]

Source: “Helene Cormier and Dan Yuen” | Subjects: Connecting (Groups, Forums, Language Exchange, Meetups, etc.), Language Exchange

Short comedy sketches of Ayaka trying to teach an English phrase…

Source: “Google / Mat Swadling” | Subjects: Multimedia, Video / Audio

If you find any interesting videos on the Google video search, use this site to enter the URL and it will convert the file to a .FLV file which you can download and view offline.

Source: “fM” | Subjects: Multimedia, Video / Audio

This site features several childrens books online, in flash format. They have cute little animated pictures, and are written mostly in hiragana. However, there is some kanji, but they all have furigana. Tales are the ‘common’ ones, such as Momo the peach boy. Some of them also are accompanied by a voice reading the text, but not all. Great for reading practice if you can’t … [ Read more ]

Source: “DoCoMo” | Subject: Reading Material

People often say that Japanese is hard to learn.

Rubbish!

The truth is, Japanese is hard to learn how to learn. However, once you’ve got the techniques down pat, then you’ll be making yourself understood in no time.

Who’s this site for?
This website is for learners of Japanese who want to put into practice language learning techniques that work. It is for beginners looking for … [ Read more ]

Source: “Dougal Phillips” | Subjects: Language Study, Miscellaneous | Other

Neko (cats) are regarded as both auspicious and fearful in Japan. Learn some of many expressions including cats.

Source: “About.com / Namiko Abe” | Subject: Vocabulary / Phrases

OCha No Kanji is a free, simple software designed to map your knowledge of kanji. This software runs under MS Excel 2000 and above. There are currently three levels : 4 kyuu (80 kanji), 3 kyuu (245 kanji) and 2 kyuu (985 kanji) of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT).

You can test up to 40 kanji at a time. The test consists in … [ Read more ]

Source: “Chuo Bunkyo Gakuin” | Subject: Kanji

The “radical” of a character is more or less its “base component.” Find background on radicals here.

Source: “Jeffrey’s JE Dictionary” | Subject: Kanji

Your broadband Portal to watch live TV broadcasts and on demand TV broadcasts on the Internet (wwiTV.com is an index to streaming media available on the web). When I last checked there were 19 live television feeds listed and 15 broadband TV feeds listed.

Source: “World Wide Internet TV” | Subject: Video / Audio

Kanji Practice is a site which helps learners of Japanese to master reading and writing kanji. Kanji are grouped in sets of 50, following the order used by learners of Japanese at Dartmouth College. For each kanji, the site offers a brushstroke image, a brief video clip demonstrating stroke order, sample sentences for On and Kun readings with accompanying audio clips, print variations and the … [ Read more ]

Source: “Dartmouth Japan Program Curriculum” | Subject: Kanji

A resource to aid the learning of Japanese Kanji. Included in this site is a listing of the full Jouyou Kanji, classified into JLPT levels, with a lookup of vocabulary for each JLPT level. Including printable kanji lists (Example list), save kanji and vocab to your folder, and kanji and vocabulary level marks to indicate JLPT level.

Source: ” JLPT Kanji Project” | Subject: JLPT Exam

This site combines the popular Kanji dictionary KANJIDIC and Japanese-English dictionary EDICT from Jim Breen. Kiki’s Dictionary is very different from other online dictionaries, such as WWWJDIC. Kiki lets you “browse” to learn useful kanji and compounds, rather than searching for a single kanji and viewing it out of context. Each compound has clickable links to other kanji entries. The meaning of any kanji is … [ Read more ]

Source: “Kiki’s Kanji Dictionary” | Subject: Kanji

MIT made an historic decision a while back to offer their course materials online to the public for free. This page is for their foreign languages and literatures courses where you can find various Japanese courses.

Source: “MIT” | Subject: Online Lessons

English-to-Japanese dictionary/database project for scientific words/phrases. Files available, as well as information about the project.

Sources: “Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies”, “Kyoto University” | Subject: Vocabulary / Phrases

This CAI program is designed to help you practice and review basic Japanese grammar. It covers many of the grammar points taught in elementary Japanese language courses.

The program is based on A Course in Modern Japanese (CMJ), Volumes 1 & 2 (Nagoya University Japanese Language Education Research Group, University of Nagoya Press, 1983). If, while working with the program, you have any questions concerning … [ Read more ]

Source: “Nagoya University” | Subject: Grammar