Useful Links for Teachers and Students - always updatedi-


under construction

* San Diego Speech Contest Update
* Speech contest 2008
* San DiegoJapanese Local Events
* Deai Photos and Vvideos
* Study Abroad in Japan: Institutions that provide US credits in Japan
* Food Map

Online museums
* National Museum of History


Blogs
* Visual Anthropology
* 
* 

Online News 

* FNN News
* TBS News

* List of newspapers
* MSN video news and entertainment


GENKI

Exercises


* http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/mpeek/japanwebpages/Genkiexercises.htm
* Genki Movies
* Particles according to Genki
* HiraganaFlashcard1
* HiraganaFlashcard2
* HiraganaFlashcard3
* KatakanaFlashcard1
* KatakanaFlashcard2
* KatakanaFlashcard3
* Kanji Reading practice
* Verb/Adjective Conjugation Practice


Genki Vocabulary Exercises

* Greetings
* Voc Lesson1
* Suuji (numbers) listening
* Jikan (time) listening
* listening quiz hiragana
* listening quiz katakana
* Nervous Prostration:game

Genki materials at CSUSM:
* http://lynx2.csusm.edu/languages/Japanese/GenkiVocab/db/
* Imamura sensei's gift
(you must open with IE)


YOKOSO

Online
free access for everyone.


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
* 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/
* 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
* Kanji dictionary



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/
* 世界の言語 


WEB RESOURCES

* 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



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


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

  Rakugo     Hanabi   Take   Karate Ame
  Ryokan             Kimono Itadakimasu
    Yukata Mushiatsui Hujisan         Udon
        Bento Nengajou Tera      
      Moshimoshi   Norimaki    
Konnichiwa Konbanwa

 
*  Making Films on Japanese Culture Cyrus Rolbin
*  JDV 2007 culture shock: japan discovery challenge: http://kyoeiexchange.com/jdc2007/http://kyoeiexchange.com/jdc2007/
*  Public Information about Japan: http://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/img20071201.html
*  Creative Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan


    "All over the world, people are focusing their attention on contemporaryJapanese culture. From the 1990s onwards, in manga,
    anime, gaming, art,architecture, design, literature, food and fashion there was a burst ofcultural energy among the population
    at large.

    This has now blossomed into contemporary Japanese popular culture whose influence is reverberating around the globe and continuing to
    fascinate many people,mostly the young generation.

* 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/samurai/
*  http://www.creativejapan.net PDF.pdf Version
*  Furusato Karuta
*  Edo Wonderlan

*  Japanese Translated Proverbs: http://web.thn.jp/fujioka/proverb.pdf
*  The Photos of Yousuke Takeda: http://www.hpmix.com/home/yousuke/AI3.htm
*  長い猫依布サラサhttp://www.nagai-neko.com/index.htm
*  Photo from Japan: http://www.tjf.or.jp/deai/contents/search/photo_top.html
*  Kyoto Kotoba Grammar:http://www.akenotsuki.com/kyookotoba/
*  Bon.Butsudan
*  Yoko's Peace Message

WRITING PAD
* Fumiko Tachibana's 1. Dolphin, 2. Ninja, 3. The Genkoyoshi 4. How to use vertical engkoyoshi





Blogs

*  Visual Anthropology


Online publication
*  WASHINGTON JAPANESE WOMEN'S NETWORK

YAMAGUCHI ITARO

* 
http://www.itaro- genji.com/ about.html
*  http://www.itaro- genji.com/
*  http://info. linkclub. or.jp/nl/ 2004_1_2/ yugou_sinka. html
*  http://i-sys. info/special/ genzi/genzi_ 04.html
*  http://www.nikkei. co.jp/kansai/ news/news000123. html
*  http://www.nancho. net/kyoto/ yamaguch. html
*  http://www.kikutv. com/shows/ Japanese_ Programs/ Inactive/ Specials_ 9-2005/
*  http://web-japan. org/nipponia/ nipponia29/ en/feature/ feature02. html
*  http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2006/ 12/12/AR20061212 00997_pf. html (WashingtonPost. com)
*  http://www.fabricta les.com/STORE/ store.cgi? product=brocades

MUSIC

*  Sakura: beautiful guitar
*  Sakura beautiful koto

*  JPOP
*  Japanese Traditional pop songs
* 
Nobuyuki Tsujii, blind pianist


RELIGION

Jyodo Sinshu/ShinranKai (Shinran Society) Japanese 浄土真宗親鸞会
http://www.shinrankai.or.jp/syounin/index.htm
Life of Shinran Shonin the light of the world Vol.1



DRAMA ONLINE
*  Movies
 
JAPANESE NEWSPAPER:

* 
FumikoTtachibana.com/journal.htm - List of newspapers
*  世界の言語 World languages



Just for Fun

* 
Eva Yoiko no Animation
*  Tomita's 擬態語擬声語

*  Write a song and sing



LEARN AND TEACH JAPANESE
*  Learn and Teach Japanese Blog (Senseionline) by GP Wittenveen
* 
CJLEA Teachers
*  Teaching materials
*  Rubistar

STUDY ABROAD IN JAPAN


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

*  Study Abroad in Osaka offered at Palomar College2007
*  The Osaka Report 2007 and More photos
*  Inquiries: ftachibana@palomar.edu



JAPAN TRAVEL
* Tokyo News


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






Announcement Icon Fri, Mar 07, 2008 -- Cheyenne MacCarthy
Re: Cheyenne MacCarthy
Congratulations, Cheyenne of 101 4:00 fall 2007, for the Stanford Scholarship
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20080307-9999-lz1mc7teen.html
-tachibana

Congratulations, Hanna and Wyatt: Speech Contest in IrvineMarch2008

* San Diego Region Speech Contest will re-open again! March 15, 2009


Selected Ninja
for Foreign Language Department