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Free Japanese Language Resources:
Language Learning & Japanese Culture

A breath taking (promised!) collection of free online & software tools
and mobile solutions (don't expect hardware miracles of your device... ;-) to help you study and mastering the Japanese language, including the writing system (kanji & kana).

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Japanese Lessons & Quizzes


Japanese Grammar


Japanese Language
Proficiency Test (JLPT)


Japanese Culture


Japanese Kanji Crossword Puzzle (Hiragana Clues)



  • Kanji Crossword Puzzles (Reference: JLPT, Level 4)

Kanji list of Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 4 [JLPT 4] arranged

  • by meaning
  • for writing practice


Japanese Kanji Crossword Puzzle (Solution)


Kanji Match Game

These online Kanji Match Games are ideal for beginners to become acquainted with the look & meaning of the used Chinese characters (Kanji).

  • Kanji Match Games (Reference: JLPT, Level 4)


    Kanji list of Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 4 [JLPT 4] arranged
  • by meaning
  • for writing practice


Kanji Sudoku

"There is more about Sudoku than just numbers!"

  • Sudoku with Kanji Numbers
  • Sudoku by Kanji Shape
  • Sudoku by Topics
  • Crossword Puzzles
  • Kanji Match Games
  • Kanji Writing Practice Sheets
  • Kanji Sudoku Blog

For your convenience you can either view the Sudokus as websites (html) or download them as pdf (sorry - no online games: emphasis is on your writing practice).

Mobile Internet
(WAP, i-mode, midlets, PDA software)
Online Translation
(Text & Websites)
  


  • Crapules Corp. (mobile)
  • Dreamshare: Kana
  • FlashKana
  • FOKS
  • FUYO SOFT
  • Kanji Hanabi
  • LanguageBug
  • MsPolyglot/Translator+
  • Nihongo Resources (Mobile)
  • PAdict
  • PocketKanji
  • POPjisyo.com (Mobile)


  • Adobe Reader: Asian Fonts
  • Dokusha
  • DreamKana
  • Freelang
  • KanjiBrowze
  • Kanji Gold
  • KanjiGym
  • Kanji Trainer Penpen
  • NAFAI.ORG: WABook
  • OCha No Kanji
  • PalmEdict dictionary
  • WaKan

Podcasts

  • Japanesepod101.com
  • kanjiPod
  • nihongo.3yen.com
  • Nippon VoiceBlog
  • Yomiuri Podcast


  • @nifty
  • Babel Fish-Übersetzung
  • excite
  • Google Language Tools
  • Kakasi web frontend
  • POPjisyo.com
  • Rikai
  • SYSTRAN
  • WorldLingo Text Translator
  • YAHOO Honyaku

Japanese Text Input (Kana)

  • Crapules Corp.
  • Dictionnaire-Japonais.fr
  • Lexilogos: clavier multilingue
Japanese Dictionaries
(English / French / German / Hungarian / Russian / Thai) (Special Interest)


English-Japanese

  • ALC
  • freedict
  • freelight
  • goo (Furigana)
  • Infoseek
  • Jeffrey's
  • Jim Breen's WWWJDIC
  • J-Talk
  • jTango
  • Nihongo Resources
  • Online Dictionary
  • PI-PPA
  • Reading Tutor
  • sanseido.net
  • Saiga
  • spencer.blackmarket.net


Deutsch-Japanisch

  • Japanisch-Deutsches
    Kanji-Lexikon
  • Japanisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch
  • Reading Tutor


Franco-Japonais

  • Crapules Corp.
  • Dictionnaire français-japonais
  • Dictionnaire-Japonais.fr
  • freelight


Magyar-Japán

  • Tamino


Русско-японский

  • Multitran


ภาค Thai

  • Longdo


Special Interest

  • Credit Dictionary
  • Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
  • Japanese periodic table
  • Jûjutsu Japanese Vocabulary


  • Confusing hiragana/katakana
  • Crapules Corp.
  • Genki Japan.net
  • Hiragana & Katakana Quizzes
  • Japanese-Name-Translation
  • Japanese Onomatopoeia (=Gitaigo) Game
  • Japanese phonetic character sets
  • Japanese Sound effects
  • Japanese Training
  • Japanese Translator
  • kanaDrawer
  • KanaSensei
  • Namen auf Japanisch
  • Real Kana
  • Sounds of the world's animals
Kanji
(Learning / Lookup by Radical / Reading)
Kanji Dictionary/Learning
Kanji Lookup by Radical
Kanji Reading
  • ii-Kanji
  • Java Kanji Flashcard 500
  • KANJI CLINIC
  • Kanji Game
  • Nihongo Resources:
    Jouyou-Kanji
  • Omniglot
  • Tepetaklak: Kanji List
  • Write Kanji

  • dictionnaire de kanji japonais
  • Jim Breen' WWWJDIC Server:
    Multi-Radical Kanji Selection
  • Kiki's Kanji Dictionary
  • spencer.blackmarket.net: lookup kanji by radicals
  • E-Kanji
  • Hiragana Megane
  • jBrowse
  • Kanji Converter
  • Kanji to Furigana
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

About:
Japanese Lessons
"Following is the complete list of my Japanese lessons"
last update: March 23, 2006
  • "Japanese for Beginners
  • Basic Japanese
  • Introductory Lessons
  • Grammar/Expressions
  • Kanji Lessons
  • Hiragana Lessons
  • Hiragana Culture Lessons
  • Katakana Lessons
  • Japanese Culture Lessons
  • Sound Files
  • Audio Phrasebook
  • Simple Japanese Phrases
  • Phrase of the Day
  • Question of the Week
  • Toy Chest
  • Feature Articles"

"Toy Chest (Omocha-bako) is a collection of fun lessons for all ages. There are quizzes, games, manga (comics) and much more to enjoy. Pick up anything you like and play with it!"

Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

English-Japanese
Vocabulary Quizzes
"Quizzes to Help You Learn and Review Vocabulary"
last update: March 29, 2006

"Charles Kelly's "4,480 Words You Should Know" has been divided up into shorter quizzes, each with 12 words.

  • Romanized Japanese to English (No Japanese Font Requred)
  • English to Japanese (Japanese Font Required)"

Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Japan Foundation
Internet Japanese Test

"This test is intended for non-native speakers of Japanese who are studying the language at a beginning or intermediate level in an overseas educational institution. However, anyone who becomes a member may take the test.There is no charge for the test."

Minna no Kyōzai

"The Site provides grammatical explanations, sample sentences and classroom activities as well as materials such as photographs and pictures, all necessary for producing teaching materials."

last update: April 05, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

JapanesePage.com
"Learn Japanese for FREE
-- How to Wow! with language, culture, kanji, and grammar"
last update: March 29, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Kanji Café:
Ice Mocha
"Ice is a tool for learning Japanese"
last update: March 23, 2006

"Kanji Café

  • Ice allows you to build a word list for flashcard-like drilling, storing the words on three different lists for three differing levels of review emphasis.
  • While studying these target words, you will have over 160,000 Japanese-English sentence pairs, complete with English glossary to practice reading the word with.
  • If you have the so called "HTML 4 Compliant Browsers", Netscape 7.x, Opera, or Mozilla Firebird/Firefox, you can operate many of Ice's features with the keyboard.
  • Ice writes your vocabulary words out both horizontally and vertically.
  • This is so you don't freak out when you read a real Japanese newspaper and realize you memorized a bunch of horizontal words and are completely dumbfounded when you see the same words written vertically.
  • Ice will give you the English meaning of each kanji in the word.
  • Click on the radio buttion near these kanji and it will give you a list of words which use that kanji.
  • Click on any of those words and it will become the word you are examining.
  • You can also add any of those words to your high emphasis, or "a" study list.
  • As you begin to memorize new words, you can move them to the "b" list so that you can bring more attention to the "a" list words that have you stupified. "
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Kanji Step
"step-by-step introduction to the Japanese Language"
last update: March 27, 2006
"At kanjistep.com you can find information about the Japanese language, culture and other Japan related topics. Our goal is to help students of Japanese to master the language and build a global community of people interested in Japan, its language and culture.

On this web site we offer free language teaching materials of all levels for self-study. Currently there are over 200 pages and over 600 sound files available."

Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Kantango
Kantango is a free site devoted to teaching Japanese vocabulary
last update: April 05, 2006
"The word kantango is the whimsical combination of two Japanese words--kantan (simple) and tango (vocabulary). Kantango uses an SQLized version of the online dictionary Edict, Copyright the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group."
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Language Guide
"Language Guide's mission is to develop free, technology rich resources for learning languages and to provide a window into the culture of the people who speak those languages. Language Guide hopes to help eliminate economic barriers to computer assisted language learning, which promises to revolutionize language learning, and to promote cultural understanding. It is a registered non-profit organization."
last update: March 29, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Language Global Link
"In the Japanese section of the site you will find tests and lessons covering kanji, hiragana, katakana and vocabulary as well as some useful grammar lessons; these pages are particularly focused on preparation for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test."
last update: April 27, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

LeJapon.org
Ceci est la rubrique Langue japonaise

"Suivre les articles édités sous cette rubrique.

  • Introduction (menu)
  • Japonais - 1ère partie
  • Japonais - 2ème partie
  • Japonais - 3ème partie
  • Japonais - 4ème partie
  • Affichage du japonais
  • Exercices interactifs
  • Livres - Manuels de japonais
  • onomatopées
  • Kotowaza: les proverbes japonais
  • Japonais - 5ème partie
  • Les tests de langue japonaise
  • Leçon 1
  • Reviser le syllabaire hiragana (animation Flash) "
last update: April 05, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Meguro Language Center
Japanese Language School for English speakers
last update: April 25, 2006
Free Study Material

"For a support to your Japanese language learning, we are pleased to show you some examples of our original teaching materials here. More than 1,000 items of MLC originals (Work Sheets, Word/Grammar/Expression Lists, Picture cards, AV learning Aid) are used in the daily class room."

Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Nafai's
Japanese language pages
"Japanese is a very fascinating language, and compared to other languages it is relatively easy to study by yourself without actually living in Japan."
last update: April 05, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Nihongojouzu
"Stuff for learning Japanese"
last update: April 27, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Charles Kelly's:
Online Japanese Language
Study Materials
"Free online materials that I have developed to help people study Japanese"
last update: March 29, 2006
"Japanese-English Quizzes in Romaji
  • You can use these even if your computer doesn't support Japanese characters.
  • Matching Quizzes and Multiple-choice Quizzes Using Only Romaji

Japanese Kana Quizzes

  • Hiragana
  • Katakana
  • Multiple-choice Vocabulary Quizzes Using Only Kana

Kanji Study

  • Multiple-choice Vocabulary Quizzes on Words Using Kanji

Words from Japanese Newspapers in Order of Frequency

  • Multiple-choice Vocabulary Quizzes Sorted by Frequency of Word Use.

CGI Flashcards: Randomly Chosen Japanese Words for Reading Practice

  • Each time you load the page you will get a random selection of words from a list of 14,783 words marked as "commonly-used" Japanese words in Jim Breen's EDICT.

Matching Quiz: Words You Should Know (362 Dozen) (Requires Flash 6)

  • This is a matching quiz I wrote for Japanese who are studying English. However, you may find it interesting.
  • 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.
    • Words Studied in Junior High School (74 Dozen)
    • Words Studied in High School (81 Dozen)
    • Words Studied in College (111 Dozen)
    • Words for AIT Freshmen (55 Dozen)

Reading Japanese Signs

  • Practice reading Japanese signs. Currently there are almost 900 photographs.

Japanese Language Proficiency Test Vocabulary Lists

  • Vocabulary Study Lists Linked to Online Dictionaries

Daily Startup (Home) Page for Students of Japanese

  • Get 36 kanji characters a day.
    • 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."
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Teach Yourself Japanese
"(The ZIP packages of the Teach Yourself Japanese site are here)"
last update: April 27, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese
Lessons & Quizzes

Wikibooks:
Japanese

"From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection

Welcome to the Wikibooks course on the Japanese language."

last update: April 27, 2006

Able Language Laboratories:
Word Inflection Analyzer
"Japanese Word Inflection Analyzer(Verb/Adjective/Adj-Verb)"
last update: March 28, 2006

Burchard:
Tables for Conjugating Japanese Verbs
"Conjugation of Verbs and Adjectives in Romanized Japanese"
last update: April 07, 2006

Counting Dictionary

"Japanese pronounces a language in a basis "kana-50-on". But there is a word to change according to an idiomatic rule.

It is a numeral.

  • Japanese numeral is a word showing the meaning by number and unit character.
  • The unit character varies with object word.
  • And a pronunciation varies with any number, too.

This site has list of the change rule table, and introduces it."

last update: March 25, 2006

Japanese "Bikkuri Adverbs"
"In Japanese there is an interesting set of adverbs which are all made up of four hiragana, the second of which is the small tsu, which "doubles" the following consonant, and the fourth of which is ri. I have asked a few Japanese if there is a name for this set of words, and have received only negative replies, which is surprising to me because there are so many of them. Since I feel that they need a name, and since it is surprising to me that they don't have one, I have decided to call them "bikkuri adverbs" because bikkuri means "surprise" and is itself a good example of one."
last update: April 27, 2006

Japanese guide
to
Japanese grammar
"This site explains Japanese grammar in a systematic step-by-step process and is released under the Creative Commons License. It was created as a resource for those who want to learn Japanese grammar in a rational, intuitive way that makes sense in Japanese. The explanations are focused on how to make sense of the grammar not from English but from a Japanese point of view."
last update: April 27, 2006

JGram
"Who We Are

JGram is dedicated to helping people learn to speak Japanese, in the most effective interactive way: by communicating, sharing knowledge, and talking between Japanese and non-native speakers. This is an interactive community where you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge to our growing database of Japanese grammar. We also encourage you to spread the word and recruit your friends (especially any native speaking friends) to contribute."

last update: March 29, 2006

Logical Japanese Grammar
last update: April 27, 2006

Wikipedia:
Japanese grammar
"For simplicity, this article presents examples in plain informal and non-literary style. The reader must keep the general grammatical principles of politeness and respect in mind."
last update: April 27, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)

JLPT Kanji Project
A resource to aid the learning of Japanese Kanji
last update: April 26, 2006
"Included in this site is a listing of the full Jouyou Kanji, classified into JLPT levels, with a lookup of vocabulary for each JLPT level. Including printable kanji lists (Example list), save kanji and vocab to your folder, and kanji and vocabulary level marks to indicate JLPT level."
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)

JLPT Level 4 Study Page
"A page dedicated to studying for the
Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Level 4"
last update: April 05, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)

Kanji SITE
"JLPT: Level 4, 3, or 2"
last update: April 26, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)

Language Global Link:
JLPT
"Please select a level/test from the choices below. The tests for levels 3 & 4 contain 50 questions each, and those for levels 1 & 2 contain 100. The kanji are sorted in order of frequence of use - so the earlier tests contain more commonly-used kanji and the later ones less commonly-used ones. Questions in each test are presented in random order each time you load the page, so you can keep trying until you get them all right..."
last update: April 27, 2006
Free Japanese Language Resources
Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)

Level Check for
Japanese Language
Proficiency Test
"This is for checking your understanding of Grammar, Kanji and Vocabulary that appeared in the past Japanese Language Proficiency Tests."
last update: April 25, 2006

Engrish
"Q. What is Engrish?

A. Engrish can be simply defined as the humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design."

last update: April 05, 2006

iLoveLanguages
"Comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources"
last update: March 29, 2006
"The more than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs."

Japan Reference
Japan Directory
last update: March 29, 2006
"As the World Wide Web expands, search engines and directories prove more and more unable to cope with the growing amount of information. The Japan Directory helps you to generate reliable search results by mining for hidden data related to almost every aspect of Japan. We are constantly trying to provide you with extensive and useful web resources.

The Japan Directory is designed as a simple and easy-to-use no-nonsense directory, seeking quality not quantity. With daily updates, it covers the most recent and relevant online information available anywhere. Please bear in mind that the Japan Directory is a basically non-commercial venture depending on dedicated users for further growth. We highly appreciate your support and feedback!"


Japanese Smileys
(Emoticons)
Japanese Smileys (2bytes)
last update: April 24, 2006
"INDEX

  1. Chapter of "Expressions of feelings" (These are the most popular ones. Everybody knows them)
  2. Chapter of "Expressons from Japanese comics or Manga (These expressions are based on Japanese comics)
  3. Chapter of "Actions"(They contain typical Japanese gestures)
  4. Chapter of "Personalities" (Can you recognize them?)
  5. Other countries' Smileys(Emoticons) "

Language Directory
"Welcome to Language Directory. Here you can find links to free language courses, grammars, newspapers, online TV and radio stations."
last update: March 29, 2006

time and date.com
"Japanese Calendar Generator"
last update: March 29, 2006

Calendar for year 2006 (Japan)

"Holidays and Observances

  • 1月1日 Shogatsu/Ganjitsu/Gantan New Year's Day
  • 1月2日 'Shogatsu/Ganjitsu/Gantan' observed New Year's Day
  • 1月9日 Seijin no hi Coming of Age Day
  • 2月11日 Kenkoku kinenbi National Foundation Day
  • 3月21日 Shunbun no hi Spring Equinox
  • 4月29日 Midori no hi Nature Day
  • 5月3日 Kenpou kinenbi Constitution Memorial Day
  • 5月4日 Kokumin no kyuujitsu Citizen's Day
  • 5月5日 Kodomo no hi Children's Day
  • 7月17日 Umi no Hi Sea Day
  • 9月18日 Keirou no hi Respect for the Aged Day
  • 9月23日 Shuubun no hi Autumn Equinox
  • 10月9日 Taiiku no hi Sports Day
  • 11月3日 Bunka no hi Culture Day
  • 11月23日 Kinrou kansha no hi Labor Thanksgiving Day
  • 12月23日 Tennou tanjoubi Emperor's Birthday"