World Language Center_Japanese
very informative

YOKOSO
NAKAMA
GENKI below

KANA

*　Ultimate Kana Challenge:http://www.fll.purdue.edu/ultimate/
*　HiraganaSong:http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/hiraganasong.htm
*　Hiragana_Gahoh: MasayoshKanai: http://gahoh.marinebat.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1
*　Katakana_Gahoh: Masayoshi Kanai):http://gahoh.marinebat.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2
*　Hiragana animation: http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/int/study/gakusyu/hiragana.html
*　Kana Practice: http://www.gyford.com/japanese/
*　Hiragana/Katakana typing practice:http://www.nihonmura.net/en/nyuryoku/hira01.shtml
*　Comprehensive Writing system introduction: http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/hiragana_symbols.html
*　Vocabulary for listening: http://www.languageguide.org/nihongo/
*　Electronic flash cards to use with GENKI I & GENKI II. Word Champ
*　Fumiko Tachibana's Hiragana & Japanese writing pad: http://faculty.palomar.edu/ftachibana#learning_materials
*　KeikoSchneider's_Kana_Kanji Help:http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/language.html
*　Furigana: http://www.hiragana.jp/
*　Gairaigo_katakana:http://www.konan-wu.ac.jp/~kikuchi/kanji/gairai.html
*　Junko Fumimoto sensei's �Hiragana Concentration game, Sound matching game
*　Fumiko Tachibana's Hiragan de Map
*　Cute aiueo chart: aiueo renshucho
*　Animated kana stroke orders with sounds

KANJI

Article by Yasuhiko Tohsaku (Effectove Ways to Teach Kanji in an AP Japanese Laguage and Culture Course - very informative)


*　KanjiGame
*　Kanji converter

*　Kanji Dictionary
*　Kanji Dictionary
*　Kanji Dictionary
*　Kanji dictionary according to Yokoso
*　Yokoso Kanji List and stroke orders
*　Genki.JapanTimes:http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/wwwkanji.en.html
*　Kanji_Gahoh: http://gahoh.marinebat.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8
*　Kanji: how to find kanji and quick stroke order
*　Kanji Radicals: http://www.fumikotachibana.com/1_radicals/radicals.htm
*　Kanji:http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/kanji-project/sites/yookoso/index.html (with a brush presentation)
*　Kanji Anatomy:Kanji as Ideographs for Students in Japanese (Web Version)
　　http://www.kanjianatomy.com/ not working
*　Kanji Furigana for Learners: http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/doc/furigana.html
*　Author Mikloski's Kanji Tutorial (Genki Lesson 11 - 16) http://members.cox.net/3dfx/JPN220/kanji.html
*　Online Kanji Dictionary:http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/MainPage?OpenForm
*　New Kanji Search: http://www.kanjiru.org (demo version for mac only as of 2007)
*　Kanji Alive: http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/main.php?page=overview)#=en
*　TonpaSite ?! for fun
*　Mahou Kanji Dictionary: http://www.mahou.org/Kanji/
*　Genki Tachbiana's Kanji Stroke Order Art Work ^_^
*　Tachibana's KanjiRadical for dummies
*　Kanji dictionary
*　http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kanji/kanji0001.html

GRAMMAR

*　Visualizing Japanese: Grammar: http://www.gwu. edu/~eall/ vjg/vjghomepage/ vjghome.htm
*　Meguro Language Center: http://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/Download.htm
*　Learn Japanese Online: http://opal.ecis.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~webcmjml/main_lessons.asp
*　CSUSM:http://courses.csusm.edu/japn102bmi/Grammar%20notes/grammarF.htm
*　ippon nihon sanbon
*　Nihongo to Tonari no Kuni kara Sekai wo miru:Kotobano sanpomichi:
*　Why do not the Japanese say I love you
*　ReferenceBooks

MAP

*　Japanese Map: Prefecture Matching game
*　Japanese Map Quest: http://www.mapion.co.jp/
*　Ekitan (train schedule and connection): http://www.ekitan.com/
*　Google Map: http://maps. google.co. jp/
*　Google Map日本の地図
*　世界の言語　


Blogs

*　Okazaki Institute Hawks do not flock but blog.
*　Visual Anthropology

Online News　

*　FNN News
*　TBS News
*　List of newspapers
*　MSN video news and entertainment


*　Houghton Mifflin College division:
　 http://college.hmco.com/languages/japanese/resources/students/links/index.html
*　Keiko Schneider's Saboten Web: http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/language.html
*　Computing and Japanese: http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/computing.html
*　Learning/Teaching Materials:http://kids.gakken.co.jp/campus/academy/jisaku/index.html
*　the links: http://kids.gakken.co.jp/campus/academy/jisaku/link.html
*　Japanese Web Resources: http://www.sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/icampus/u/linksj.jsp
*　Newspaper: http://www.sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/icampus/u/linksj.jsp?category=Newspaper&language=Japanese
*　Japanese Web Resources: http://lynx.csusm.edu/llc/web_resources_lang.asp?currentLanguage=japanese
*　University of Northern Iowa Professor Jim Becker's site: http://www.uni.edu/becker/japanese2.html
*　United Links for Japanese Learning WEb Resources:http://www.sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/icampus/u/linksj.jsp
*　Japanese kids Enikki (picture journal with text): http://enikki.mitsubishi.or.jp/index_f.html
*　Graphic Organizers: http://gotoscience.com/Graphic_Organizers.html
*　The Silver Creek Thunderously Hip Japanese Program:http://scweb.esuhsd.org/programs/jp/
*　Tsukawarenakunattannihongo


ONLINE DICTINARIES

*　A list of Online Dictionaries: http://www.fumikotachibana.com/journal3.htm#dictionaries
*　NihongoBC.com http://englishjapaneseonlinedictionary.com/
*　Genki Vocab CSUSM: http://lynx2.csusm.edu/languages/Japanese/GenkiVocab/db/
*　Directory of Translation Dictionaries: Lexicool.com
*　Resources for Translation: http://web.thn.jp/fujioka/
*　Rikai.com: http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl
*　YourDictionary.com
*　Mahou Dictionary:http://www.mahou.org/Dict/
*　ALC: http://www.alc.co.jp
*　Typing kana (originally good for Chinese) (not highly recommended if you can type Japanese using IME.

ONLINE PRACTICES/QUIZZES

*　Reading Practice: http://www.manythings.org/c/r2.cgi/edict
*　Charles Kelly's Many Things, study guide for all levels : http://www.manythings.org/japanese/
*　CSUSM: Genki Vocab
*　This page :) Scroll up this page

Computer/Web

http://nihongomemo.com/pctips/web.htm
Go to How to Make Sound Files (MP3) - English verson
音声ファイル(MP3)の作成法 - japanese version
Shunko Muroya
Japanese Advisor, Alberta Education, Canada
(Sponsored by the Japan Foundation)

LITERATURE
*　 Japanese Literature in English
*　 Digital Ehon Japanese traditional folklore
*　 AozoraBunko Japanese literature in original 青空文庫
*　 Old Stories of Japan in English
*　 Japanese Classics translated in a modern language
*　 Japanese Literature AOL

Miyazaki
*　 Tonarinototoro

CULTURE

*　 Food Map: What Japanese people eat daily, it's not all about yakitori, yakisoba, sushi, shabushabu, or sukiyaki.
*　 Japanese Table Manners (in Japanese)
*　 Why it is bad manners to rub chopsticks (in Japanese)
*　 Nihongo Memo 日本語メモ
*　 jouhouyatai (not free)
*　 Japan Echo: http://www.japanecho.co.jp/
*　 abcjp.net about us
*　 National Museum of History
*　 Let's introduce Japan in English! 英語で日本を紹介しよう。

in progress

STUDY ABROAD IN JAPAN


*　 Study Abroad Programs in Japan
*　 KU Office of Study Abroad
*　 Ritsumeikan University
*　 Seinan Gakuin University
*　 Sophia University in Tokyo through CIEE
*　 US study abroad agencies



JAPAN TRAVEL
*　Tokyo News

FOREIGN LANGUAGE JAPANESE MATERIALS
*　Japanese materials at Language Lab at Palomar College



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