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Study Kana (Hiragana & Katakana)
- Wai Wai Nihongo (Ryutaro Toyoda)
- HIragana games in Flash, plus more. (Voice recordings by Kaori Mizumoto)
- Moshi Moshi Student Activities - Requires the Shockwave plugin
- The Hiragana Song
- Hiragana Puzzle
- Another Hiragana Song (nekopy.com)
- The Fox's Ear: One character at a time explained to help you remember them all.
- Katakana
- Hiragana
- Japanese Kana Quizzes (Charles Kelly)
- Multiple-choice quizzes & flashcards: Hiragana and Katakana. Requires Flash 6.
- Zompist's Hiragana Flashcards
- www.kanacards.com (Jonathan Stiles)
- Flashcards and multiple-choice quizzes using the Flash plugin.
- KanaFlash (Tobias Gärder)
- See the character, type in the Romaji (Hepburn?), then see if you got it right.
- Writing Hiragana & Katakana (a-chi.jp)
- Flash movies of stroke order.
- ChipChat Japanese Training (Marty Cawthon)
- Hiragana Drill and Katakana Drill. Requires Java.
- Benjamin Barrett's Japanese Lesson Pages
- Step by step through hiragana with appropriate vocabulary and a little kanji thrown in along the way.
- Okayama University - Hiragana and Katakana Practice
- Some are multiple-choice with sound files, some are fill-in-the-blanks.
- Hiragana Challenge [Instructions] (Kazumi Hatasa)
- Requires Shockwave. Remove all the Hiragana letters from the screen by clicking them in gojuuon order.
- Katakana Challenge [Instructions] (Kazumi Hatasa)
- Requires Shockwave. Remove all the Katakana letters from the screen by clicking them in gojuuon order.
- Simple Hiragana (Taiji Hotta, Reiko Sato and Tomoko Watanabe)
- Hiragana chart with WAV files, exercises on hiragana and vocabulary. Works even without a Japanese font installed.
- Hiragana Chart (with a man's voice) (www.tokyowithkids.com)
- Click the hiragana to hear the pronunciation. Works even without a Japanese font installed.
- Normal Table of Japanese Hiragana with Speech (Rhonda Christensen)
- man's voice using .au files. There is also a Katakana page, too.
- Hiragana Practice (with a woman's voice) (Kimi Furuta)
- Click the hiragana to hear the pronunciation. Works even without a Japanese font installed. Includes non-repeating animated GIFs of stroke order.
- AIUEO Aoi (Yuko Horii Takekawa)
- Hiragana practice with kids' voices. Looks similar to the "hiragana blocks" I had as a kid.
- Hiragana & Katakana Stroke Order (Satoru Shinagawa)
- Uses Gahoh's QuickTime movies
- Hiragana & Katakana Project (Yasuhiro Omoto)
- Click to see stroke order.
- Teach Yourself Japanese (Shinji Takasugi)
- Writing kana, also grammar and more. Try the Java Hiragana Flashcards.
- Java Game of Hiragana and Katakana (Shinji Takasugi)
- Click the pair of hiragana and katakana which share pronunciation
- Image Version for Japanese Hiragana Characters with Speech (Jouji Miwa)
- Click the character and hear a man's voice reading it to you.
- Kana Flashcards
- Randomly shows hiragana images. Works even without a Japanese font installed.
- Hiragana & Katakana Concentration Games (Shunko Muroya)
- This uses Dennie Hoopingarner's JavaScript code.
- Kana Helper (jeffmk [at] myrealbox.com)
- A random character is chosen, then you click its reading on the kana chart. (Also reverse mode is available.)
- www.KanaChart.com (Casey Giles)
- You can see images of katakana and hiragana.
- genki.japantimes.co.jp
- Self study materials for the "Genki" textbook.
- Kana Game (Cathy DeMillion)
- Requires Flash. See the English, click the kana for the word. (dangerous, red, bright, sweet, ...)
- Hiragana Barabara Game
- See a hiragana character broken into pieces and try to guess which one it is. This is more difficult than you might expect.
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