The Tanaka Corpus consists of roughly 180,000 parallel Japanese-English sentences and is the basis of the example sentences found in the WWWJDIC dictionary server. It is freely available at this site for you to use in any projects you may wish.
Sources: “Jim Breen”, “Paul Blay”, “Yasuhito Tanaka” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools
This summary of some basic Japanese grammar has been derived from the Japanese grammar text books that were used at Swinburne University when I was studying Japanese there in the 1980s. I copied these points into a small notebook to use as revision while travelling, etc.. I have decided to key them in and make them available as a WWW page which can supplement Keith … [ Read more ]
Source: “Jim Breen” | Subject: Grammar
This is one part of the immensely useful Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC Server. Here you can quickly look up kanji by radical(s). Sometimes this is a very useful method of finding kanji…
Source: “Jim Breen” | Subject: Kanji
This is a site by the man behind the WWWJDIC, which you can read all about here. He also has good stuff about ukiyo-e and lots of interesting links (many duplicated on this site).
Source: “Jim Breen” | Subject: Comprehensive
This site is an absolute god-send for those studying Japanese! I live by it. Use it as a simple dictionary or use its much more advanced features which include:
– Translate (great for inputting an entire email sent to you in Japanese for example)
– Find Kanji (multiple methods)
– Handwritten Interface
– Mobile phone access
– Check out … [ Read more ]
Source: “Jim Breen” | Subject: Translate
A library of Ukiyo-E images and related information from the man behind WWWJDIC!
Source: “Jim Breen” | Subject: Arts & Entertainment