A Select List of Japanese Language Study Sites
Japanese Language Study Links

These may not be all the very best sites, but these are definitely some of the best.

New Link (October 28, 2009)

• http://www.matsu-kaze.net/
  • Scott Lyons
  • (Actually I may already have this listed somewhere.)
  • See an example word list: http://www.matsu-kaze.net/mk/meishi/?list=Fruit

The Regular Links

Tools

• Tools to Help Read Japanese Web Pages
• Tools to Help Read Japanese Text
• iGoogle Gadgets - Add modules to your Google "start up" page.

Quizzes

• Quizzes to Help You Study Kanji
• Flashcards to Help You Study Kanji
• Quizzes to Help You Study Vocabulary and Grammar

Lists

• Browse and Study Lists of Kanji
• Vocabulary Lists

Listening

• Things to Listen To
• Podcasts
• Things to Listen to with Scripts

Reading

• Things to Read with "Help"
• Things to Read

Watching and Listening

• Video

Grammar and Lessons

• Grammar Reference and Lessons
• Lessons
• Study Kana - Hiragana and Katakana

Writing

• Help with Writing Japanese

Freeware

• Free Software - Cross Platforms
• Free Software - Windows
• Free Software - Macintosh

Teachers

• Things for Teachers

A Few Special Links for More Advanced Students

• Yakuza Japanese (Roger Smith) - Learn to understand gangster movies.

Other

• Online Tools
• Online Dictionaries
• Pages about Japanese
• Online Translation
• Reference

Temporary Links

New: October 30, 2007

• http://classtools.net/my/quiz65554.htm
  • These are some games that you can use to practice reading Katakana and learn the names of countries in Japanese.
  • I think that I like the "WordShoot" game the best.
  • To try out this website, I just dumped the same data I had in my quiz at http://iteslj.org/v/j/ck-countries.html.

New: October 25, 2007

• http://www.mangolanguages.com/
  • It's free (for now, at least), but requires registering with your email address (an obvious potential for increased spam).
  • Japanese lessons for beginners. Audio dialogs along witht the script. Requires Flash 9.
• http://www.j-prep.com/traveller/jprepTravel.swf (2007-May-29)
  • It's on a commercial website, but this part seems to be free.
• Japanese Culture Quiz (Randy A. Oldtaker, West Virginia, USA)
  • This is not a language quiz, but I thought you might enjoy it.
  • (October 12, 2007)
• Download Packs of Japanese Wikipedia pages for your mobiles
  • http://www.webaroo.com/webpacks?filter_language=ja-jp&website_language=ja-jp
  • Requires Windows (recent)
• Nate Findley's Japanified JLPT Quiz
• Kanji Go @ redkitsune.org
  • Macintosh Freeware; Look up words, create word lists, flashcards, ...
• http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/genkijapan.swf
• http://apps.facebook.com/kanjibox/
  • If you are on Facebook, you should give this a try.
• http://www.japteach.com/

Online Video with English Subtitiles

• http://www.mysoju.com/dance-drill/
  • Or find a whole list of Japanese dramas: http://www.mysoju.com/#japanese-drama

Free Online Lessons

• http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-ja-en
• http://www.yynihongo.jp/

Songs

• Kiwi Musume's Romaji and English Translations of J-Pop Songs
• http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/ttsgadget.asp?url=WMifr&dir=ja#
  • Online Japanese Language Text-to-Speech Generator.
  • Copy and paste some Japanese text into the form, then listen to it.
  • Maybe you can try the first paragraph of the first news story at http://www.asahi.com or http://www.chunichi.co.jp .