やさしい日本語 | Easy Japanese Grammar lessons

“Easy Japanese” is a program of Japanese language lessons produced by Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN. You can learn basic grammar and useful expressions through lessons designed in audio-drama style. You can download audio and texts for the lessons free of charge.

The heroine of the story is Anna, a 20-year-old Thai student who loves Japanese manga. She has come to Japan to learn … [ Read more ]

Kodomo News (こどもニュース)

NHK’s news site for Japanese children. It’s all in Japanese but being crafted for children may make it more useful than regular NHK news for intermediate students.

NHK World Japanese Lessons

This website provides you with the reedited versions of “Basic Japanese for You” and “Brush Up Your Japanese” that are designed for the Internet users. Their original versions are on the air on NHK World Radio Japan, that is the overseas shortwave service of NHK.

NHK Radio News online

Kick off your Japanese listening in the morning by listening to the NHK Radio News online. There are four broadcasts daily, 10 minute segments at 7am and midday and then 15 minutes at 7pm and 10pm. The speed at which the broadcasters speak can be adjusted to slow, normal or fast, making it handy for repeated listenings. The fact that the announcers – especially the … [ Read more ]

NHK World Japanese Lessons

Welcome to the NHK World Japanese Lessons web site!
NHK airs Japanese lessons for people of various languages on its international shortwave RADIO JAPAN service. On this site, you can listen to those lessons.

Languages included: English, Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, German, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese