Japanese Language

General

• Japanese (Yahoo)

• Alternative sci.lang.japan FAQ - Japan site and UK site

• K12.lang.japanese
• sci.lang.japan - Discussion of the Japanese language
• alt.japanese.text
• soc.culture.japan - Japanese society and culture
• Japan-related Newsgroups
• Japanese Language Discussion List (listserv@mitvma.mit.edu)
• The Gakusei Lists - Japanese Language Student E-mail Discussion Lists (listproc@hawaii.edu) - A good place to exchange messages in Japanese
• NIHONGO Mailing List (Listserv@utkvm1.utk.edu) - Discussions of the Japanese language, computers and Japanese, and Japanese culture as it relates to language
• Japan-related Mailing Lists
• Human Japanese Forum (Human Japanese)- Free forum on Japanese grammer
• Nihongo Cafe
• Web Japanese Nihongo Chat - This chat room is dedicated to Japanese language learner

• CosCom Japanese Language School
• Japanese Language Learning CyberTutorials (Ken Butler)
• Beginner Level Japanese Course Schedule (3 Web) - With audio
• Easy Web Japanese - Basic Japanese conversation
• Japanese Language Education System for Speech on an On-demand Network - To train for hearing spoken sentences, words and syllables
• Japanese-Online Lesson Index (Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.)
• The Japanese Tutor
• Japanese VAL Balloon - Basic sounds, grammar, daily conversation, and so on
• Language Exchange / Japanese Class - Grammatical and conversational lessons
• Language Study (JA Connection)
• Masami's Picture Book with Japanese Word - For both children and adults
• One-Point Lesson (Japanese Language Center) - For intermediate Level
• Travelers' Japanese with Voice (NTT) - Basic for travelers
• Web Japanese.com
• Yabuu - Basic phrases and words with audio

• Hiragana and Katakana Ver. 1.1 (Freeware) - Introduce the pronunciation of hiragana and katakana through visual and verbal mnemonics
• How to Stroke (DoctorBank-Com) - Hiragana and Katakana
• Hiragana and Katakana (Japnese Tutor) - With stroke-order, movie and male & female native speakers
• Japanese Writing - Hiragana and Katakana
• Kana Study Material (MIT Japanese Program)
• Teach Yourself Japanese

• Flashkanji
• Gahoh - The penmanship of Japanese language movies
• Japanese Kanji Calligraphy
• Japanese Writing - Kanji
• Joyo 96 - Kanji lessin and background
• Kanji Study Material (MIT Japanese Program)
• Ste-chan's Kanji of the Day
• Teaching Pen 732 Kanji (CompuJapanese International) - Watch moving Japanese Kanji with stroke order
• Weekly Kanji (DoctorBank-Com) - The explanation of the part of Kanji called "hen"
• Reading/Writing Exercises (MIT Japanese Program) - Reading lesson
• Interactive Kanji Quiz (Web Japanese)

• Key Aspects of Japn - The dictionary for culture
• Glossary (Japanese Language Information Files) - Glossary of Japanese Language related terms
• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server - Dictionaries of terms
• The Count Dictionary
• E-J / J-E Dictionary
• Japanese<->English Dictionary (Jeffrey E. F. Friedl)
• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server
• On-line Dictionary (Japanese Language Information Files)
• Japanese->English
• Japanese-English Dictionary
• English->Japanese
• EtoJ Web Server
• Kanji
• Kanji Lookup (Jeffrey E. F. Friedl)
• Kanji (Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server) - You can link to several other WWW character dictionaries!
• Multi-Radical Kanji (Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server) - Find a Kanji from elemets
• On-line Dictionary (Japanese Language Information Files)
• World Wide Web CJK-English Dictionary Database

• Quick & Dirty Guide to Japanese Grammar
• Quiz Review Materials (MIT Japanese Program) - Grammar review and exercises

• Nihon-no-Kotowaza
• Test Your Knowledge of Proverbs

• Dialect List in Japan

• AJALT - The publisher of "Japanese for Busy People"
• The Nihongo Journal
• 3A Corporation

• Computer-Assisted Language Learning for Japanese on the Macintosh (Japanese-related Projects at Purdue University)
• Companies
• Bayware - The maker of "Power Japanese"
• Dialect Web - Supplier of Japanese language earning and productivity tools
• Fujitsu Software Corporation - The maker of "Speech Partner", "Kanakun" and "Kantaro"
• Human Japanese - Educational software Download the free demo
• Lava Software - The maker of "Japanese WordMage" Download the free demo
• Neocor - Download the freeware
• NJStar Software Corp - Software for Japanese language processing Download the free demo
• Pacific Software Publishing - The maker of "KanjiKit", "KanjiWORD", "Kantaro", "Kanakun", etc. Download the free demo
• TwinBridge - The maker of "Japanese Partner" Download the free demo
• Titles
• Blackbelt - Learn basic vocabulary by seeing, hearing and doing
• DoNihonGo - Designed for the beginning and lower intermediate level
• Dynamic Japanese - Introductory course in spoken Japanese
• KurObi - Covers all of the kana and 440 kanji
• QuickScholar Software - Learn to read and write hiragana, katakana, and kanji
• Read Japanese - Allows you to click on Japanese characters and words and instantaneously view their Japanese pronunciation and English meaning
• Universal Translator Deluxe (LanguageForce Inc.)
• Download the Freeware
• AutoGloss/J Ver. 1.0 - Designed to produce glossary automatically from Japanese text (Purdue University)
• Development Tools for Japanese Ver. 2.0 - Designed to add Japanese language support to the HyperCard environment without using a Japanese operating system (Purdue University)
• Exercise in Japanese Counters Ver. 1.0 (Purdue University)
• Vocabulary/Kanji/Conjugation Exercise for Japanese (Purdue University)
• Kanji Tutor I. - Database of all the 1945 Joyo Kanji and around 9000 compound words
• MacJDic - Electronic Japanese-English dictionary program for the Macintosh

• Teglet - How to write your name in Kanji
• Photo Gallery for Japanese Language Instruction - Photos of signs
• Japanglish (JUN)
• Oh! Misunderstanding - Misunderstandinds by Japanese and by American.
• Quiz
• Quizzes Adventures of Taro and Hanako (Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo)

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 May 14, 1999

Maki (makik@hotmail.com)