Useful websites for studying Japanese

Links related to the Haverford Japanese program

• East Asian Studies at Haverford/Bryn Mawr
http://www.brynmawr.edu/eastasian/

• Haverford Nihongo community
http://www.haverford.edu/jnse/community/
http://www.haverford.edu:8080/llc/JPcommunity/index.php (on-campus only)

• Genki Online: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese
There are a lot of useful resources in the Self-study Room section.
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/index.html

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Podcasting

• Blog 表現よみ作品集　ー渡辺知明による文学作品の朗読
http://www.voiceblog.jp/kotoba/

• Nippon VoiceBlog - Japanese Narration voice-blog
http://www.voiceblog.jp/nippon/

Directories with podcasts in Japanese

• ケロログ　Voice Blog Portal - Podcasting 対応http://www.voiceblog.jp/

• デジオの宇宙色々
http://dedio.jp/

Dictionaries

Denshi Jisho - Online Japanese dictionary
http://jisho.org/

• PSP's Bi-Directional English Japanese Dictionary
http://dict.pspinc.com/

• infoseek
http://dictionary.www.infoseek.co.jp/

• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server- Word Lookup
http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C

• Kanjiten (新JIS漢字典)
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000964/kanjiten.htm

• Jeffrey's Japanese <-> English Dictionary-Gateway
http://dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e

• Japanese English Dictionary
http://www.online-dictionary.biz/japanese/english/

• Japanese Dictionary
http://www.online-dictionary.biz/english/japanese/

• Online English to Japanese to English Dictionary
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html

• Sanseido Web Dictionary
http://www.sanseido.net/

• Yahoo! Japan 辞書
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/bin/dsearch?p=%CF%C2%B1%D1&stype=1&dtype=1

• Goo 辞典
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/

• Go Wikipedia
http://wpedia.search.goo.ne.jp/

Tools to help read Japanese text

• Jim Breen's WWW JDIC Server
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?9T

• Word Champ
Try Web Reader.
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua/MainMenu.do

•Rikai-chan (Firefox extension)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2471

• ASUNARO
This system provides vocabulary help in different languages, and also it is capable of showing sentence structure.
http://hinoki.ryu.titech.ac.jp/

• Reading Tutor
http://language.tiu.ac.jp/
リーディングチュータのサイトには、道具箱, 読解教材バンク, 日本語の勉強・教育に役立つページへのリンク集,
読解クイズ・文法クイズのページもある。

• Hiragana Site (to read Japanese websites with furigana)
http://www.hiragana.jp/

• Kanji Furigana (Hiragana) for Japanese Learners
This site converts Web Page Kanji to Furigana
http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/doc/furigana.html

Reading Materials with Help

• 日本事情で学ぶ日本語 (Learn Japanese)
http://www.japanese-nihongo.com/monthly/

• E-Kanji
http://www.geocities.com/easykanji/

Links for Hiragana and Katakana

• Genki Self-study page for Hiragana and Katakana
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/self.html

• Usagi-chan's Hiragana
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/hira_main.html

• Usagi-chan's Katakana
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/kata_main.html

• Rapid recognition of hiragana and katakata
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/hatasa/QuickKana/

Links for Kanji

• Kanji Reading Practice For Genki
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/kanji.html

• Genki Self-study page for Kanji
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/self.html

• Usagi-chan's Kanji for Genki
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/kanji_main.html

• Kanji List for Genki (Kanji)
http://www.haverford.edu/llc/japanese/genkikanji/genki.html

• Kanji Practice for both Genki (I, II) and An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese (Kanji)
http://kanjirenshuu.org/

• Yoshida Institute (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji)
(Learning Japanese - Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, Using Japanese on your computer, & Dictionaries and other online aids)
http://www.yosida.com/en/learning.html

• Kanji Alive (Kanji)
Online tool for learning Kanji
http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/

• Java Kanji Flashcards 500 (Kanji)
Flashcard exercises of 500 most frequent kanji.
http://www.nuthatch.com/kanjicards/

• Kanji Practice (with sounds & movies) (Kanji)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Ekanji/

Vocabulary

• Genki vocab exercise
http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/mpeek/japanwebpages/GenkiExercises.htm

• Usagi-chan's Vocabulary for Genki
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/vocab_main.html

• Word Champ
http://www.wordchamp.com/

Links for Listening

• mic-J AV Resources
http://japanese.human.metro-u.ac.jp/mic-j/home-e.html

• Photos, My Story and Message Video
http://www.tjf.or.jp/deai/contents/search/photo_top.html

•マルチメディア「にほんごをまなぼう」HTML版
http://www.hellonavi.com/foldera/index.html

Listening Materials with Scripts

• FNN News
http://www.fnn-news.com/

• TBS (Video news with the scripts paraphrased)
http://news.tbs.co.jp/

Links for Grammar

• Verb/ Adjective Conjugation Practice for the textbook GENKI
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/verb.html

• CMI Grammar Online
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.
http://mercury.ecis.nagoya-u.ac.jp/WebCMJ/default.htm

•Griffin University's Grammar Lessons
http://www.gu.edu.au/school/lal/japanesemain/JP_Res/JP_Res_control/grammar_frame.html

• Grammar Quiz
http://www.tiu.ac.jp/language/nihongo/shiken/puiz-index.html

Links for Discourse Level Exercise

• Aizuchi
Explanation and exercises on Aizuchi (back-channeling)
http://www.nik.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/aizuchi/

Literature

• Aozora Bunko

• Japanese Text Initiative

Links for Japanese Culture

• Brovision: Streaming Video about life in Japan
http://www.brovision.com/

• Teaching and Learning about Japan
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/japan/index.html

•The virtual picture album-Japan
http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/vpa/japanese/org_grid1.html

Links for Newspaper

• Asahi (in Japanese)
http://www.asahi.com/

• Asahi (in English)
http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html

• Japan Times (in English)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/

• Yomiuri Online (in Japanese)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/

• Nikkei (Japanese)
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/

• Wikipedia in Japanese
http://ja.wikipedia.org

Links for TV/Radio Stations

• NHK Radio News: You can change the speed.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/r-news/l

• FNN News
http://www.fnn-news.com/

• Radio Japan
http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/index_j.html

• TBS
http://www.tbs.co.jp/

• MBS Radio News Archives
http://mbs.jp/rnews/

• Yomiuri News Stream
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/stream/index.htm

• Live Radio and Television from Japan
http://broadcast-live.com/japan.html

Links for Search Engines

• Google Japan
http://www.google.co.jp/

• Excite
http://excite.co.jp/

• Goo
http://excite.co.jp/

• Yahoo Japan
http://excite.co.jp/

Miscellaneous

• Information and Resources for Teachers of Japanese Language
http://www.nihongomemo.com/

• Japanese Language Proficiency Test
http://www.jees.or.jp/jlpt/en/

• Japan Exchange and Teaching Program
http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/jet/

• Japan-America Student Conference
http://www.jasc.org/

Comprehensive List of Links

• Learning Resources: Japanese. A listing of free learning resources for the learners of the Japanese language.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.rowley/resources.html

• Japanese Learning Resources Portal (A site with a lot of good links to Japanese resources.)
http://nihongo.phpnet.us/index.php

• Useful links for learning and teaching Japanese ( Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks)
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/

• Charles Kelly's Japanese Language Study Website
http://www.manythings.org/japanese/

• Japan-s
(Kaz Hagiwara, Griffith University, Australia)
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/lal/japanesemain/Japanese.student.bmark.html

• Japan, my Japan! - A Guide to Japan
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Japan.html

• Jim Breen's Japanese Page
http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/%7Ejwb/japanese.html

• 日本語国際センター（国際交流基金浦和）
http://www.jpf.go.jp/j/urawa/

•MERLOT (Multimedia Educational resource for Learning and Online Teaching) For Japanese http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2481

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