Easy Katakana Game

• Listen & Spell: Animals That Live in Water
  • Listen to the lady's voice, then click the katakana in the correct order.
  • Here are two other "listening and vocabulary" games using the same data. However, they probably won't help your katakana reading.
    • Listen & Match (Concentration / Memory)
    • Listen & Place (Matching Game)

Satoru Shinagawa's Quiz Data - Charles Kelly's JavaScript

• Vol. 1
  • Japanese Lesson 1 (28)
  • Japanese Lesson 2 (77)
  • Japanese Lesson 3 (76)
  • Japanese Lesson 4 (58)
  • Japanese Lesson 5 (75)
  • Japanese Lesson 6 (67)
  • Japanese Lesson 7 (58)
  • Japanese Lesson 8 (56)
  • Japanese Lesson 9 (53)
  • Japanese Lesson 10 (90)
  • Japanese Lesson 11 (62)
  • Japanese Lesson 12 (59)
  • Japanese Lessons 1 Though 12 All Words in Vol. 1 (749)
  • FLASH VERSION: Japanese Lessons 1 Though 12 All Words in Vol. 1 (749)
• Vol. 2
  • Japanese Lesson 1 (43)
  • Japanese Lesson 2 (71)
  • Japanese Lesson 3 (68)
  • Japanese Lesson 4 (62)
  • Japanese Lesson 5 (64)
  • Japanese Lesson 6 (54)
  • Japanese Lesson 7 (60)
  • Japanese Lesson 8 (58)
  • Japanese Lesson 9 (75)
  • Japanese Lesson 10 (57)
  • Review - All Words in Vol. 2 (612)
  • FLASH VERSION: Review - All Words in Vol. 2 (612)
• Review of Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
  • Review - All Words in Vol.1 & Vol. 2 (1,357)
  • FLASH VERSION: Review - All Words in Vol.1 & Vol. 2 (1,357)

Mutliple-Choice, Matching or Flashcards

• 4,207 Katakana Nouns Marked as Commonly-Used in EDICT 2006-07-14
  If the matching and multiple-choice seem to be too easy, try the flashcard function.
  These are re-shuffled every time you load the page, so you can come back any time and try it again and again.

Matching Quiz

• Matching Quiz: English-to-Japanese in Katakana
  Not just "loan words" (外来語), but many animals. It's not uncommon to see names of animals in katakana. You may find this an enjoyable way to review katakana while at the same time reviewing vocabulary.

Words Appearing in Newspapers That Do Not Use Kanji

Hiragana [Total Words = 3,567]
• Words Using Only Hiragana from Newspapers #1 (1-50)
• Words Using Only Hiragana from Newspapers #2 (51-100)
• MORE: Go to Hiragana Quiz # (Enter a number between 1 and 36)
Katakana [Total Words = 3,000]
• Words Using Only Katakana from Newspapers #1 (1-50)
• Words Using Only Katakana from Newspapers #2 (51-100)
• MORE: Go to Katakana Quiz # (Enter a number between 1 and 60)

Matching Quiz

• http://www.manythings.org/mq/m6-edict.html
  • This MIGHT help you practice your katakana and hiragana reading and possibly pick up a few new words.
  • These are the 4994 words marked as (P) in the EDICT dictionary that did not use kanji. The "(P)" means they are supposedly commonly-used vocabulary. (Please note that some of these words are not all that commonly used.)
  • Each time you load the quiz, the word matches are re-shuffled.
  • If you already read katakana and hiragana fairly well, then these are easy matches to do.

Anki Deck (Data for Anki - Free at http://ankisrs.net/)

Download this, unzip it, then put it in your Anki folder with your other decks. You may need to open it using the menu "open" or by double-clicking the first time you use it.

• EDICT-Katakana-Words-2011-04-22.zip
  4,470 Katakana words marked as commonly-used in Jim Breen's April 22, 2011 version of the EDICT dictionary. Commonly-used words are marked with the (P) code in EDICT.

If you don't already use Anki, vist the website at http://ankisrs.net/ to download this free application for Macintosh, Windows or Linux.