NOTE: Sometimes due to heavy use of these gadgets, they will not display. If you can put up with not seeing them every time, they are still useful. I hope to move these to another server, when I can find the time. Currently, they are hosted on a Google server, that caps bandwidth use.
Each time you load the page you will get a random selection of words from the 17,154 words using kanji that were marked as commonly-used (P) in EDICT 2008-05-14.
Choose your own level or as many levels as you would like to cover each day.
You'll be able to see all the 1,908 selected kanji characters several times a year.
Also included are 3 major English search engines, 3 major Japanese search engines and some Japanese reading tools, so it will make a useful "home" page for you.
This is a matching quiz I wrote for Japanese who are studying English.
There are 362 dozens of matches in the main quiz. Perhaps too many to do at one time, so each time you return to the page, the words are reshuffled generating different matching quizzes.
Here are the some of the same words, sorted by level.
I made these for Japanese who are studying English, so they are not really designed for studying Japanese.
However, I thought some visitors might enjoy these, so I've put a link to them from this page. 基本英単語クロスワードパズル
Yoji Jukugo 4 (552) Less Common - Not (n, vs) or (n)
Yoji Jukugo 5 (234) Less Common - 2 ways to say or write
Experimental
Randomly-generated English-Japanese Sentences You will get new computer-generated English sentences with Japanese translations each time you load one of the following pages.
You might find this an interesting way to practice reading and to brush up on some grammar.
Listen to the Japanese hint while looking at the English word, then type in the Romaji.
JR-Animals This is really for young Japanese children who are just learning Romaji. However, beginning students of Japanese may find it useful since they might learn a few new words and can practice listening to the words as they are pronounced.
