Table of Contents

1. Typing and Displaying Japanese Characters 2. Online Learning Resources Online Courses and Exercises: Reference Materials and Dictionaries: Culture and Society: 3. Miscellaneous Newspapers: Magazine: Radio: TV: Universities and Colleges: Additional Resources:

 

Here are some Japanese language learning resources on the Internet.

http://languagecenter.cla.umn.edu/index.php?page=links_japanese

The first is the University of Minnesota CLA Language Center’s Japanese website. It has a lot of valuable resources. Take a look at it and see what you can use for your courses.

http://www.all.umn.edu/japanese_language/home.html

Japanese Language Program at UMN

 

1. Typing and Displaying Japanese Characters

http://www.all.umn.edu/chinese_language/Resource/AsianWordProcessing.html

Word processing in Japanese and other Asian languages.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/%7Eik2r-myr/kanji/winos_en.htm

Instructions on how to display Japanese.

http://www.all.umn.edu/chinese%5Flanguage/Resource/Email&WWW.html

Displaying Japanese characters, decoding and sending emails in Japanese.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/%7Eik2r-myr/kanji/kanji1a.htm

Learn and drill Japanese Kanji.

http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/main.php?page=overview&lang=en

A tool for searching and displaying kanji.

 

2. Online Learning Resources

Online Courses and Exercises:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/babel-site/

This site has resources for quite a few languages, one of them being Japanese. It has an introduction of the Japanese writing system, Japanese verbs and adjectives, phrases, particles, and some useful structures.

http://i33www.ira.uka.de/~bgarz/nihongoshoho/

A site of basic Japanese language course.

http://japanese.about.com/mmore.htm

Japanese lessons for all kinds of people, with different levels of proficiency and purposes, with sound files.

http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/mpeek/japanwebpages/GenkiExercises.htm

Twenty-three lessons of Japanese vocabulary, in matching and multiple choice games.

http://www.capesius.com/japanese/default.asp

25 lessons of Japanese flashcards.

http://www.kantango.com/

A free site for teaching Japanese vocabulary and online Japanese dictionary.

 

Reference Materials and Dictionaries:

http://www.rikai.com/

A very good online reading tool for Japanese.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Ejwb/wwwjdic.html

The famous Jim Breen's Japanese Dictionary Server. It’s also a comprehensive resources site for Japanese learning and instruction.

http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/language.html

All kinds of Japanese learning tools on the web.

http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/language.html#dictionaries

Japanese-English, English-Japanese dictionaries.

http://www.uni.edu/becker/japanese2.html

A website of various Japanese learning resources, including Japanese Kanji, grammar, history, culture and more.

 

Culture and Society:

http://japanese.about.com/blphrase.htm

A site of various aspects of Japanese culture and society.

 

3. Miscellaneous

Newspapers:

Asahi:

http://www.asahi.com/

CNN Japan:

http://www.cnn.co.jp/

Mainichi:

http://www.mainichi-msn.co.jp/

Yomiuri:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/

 

Magazine:

Nipponia:

http://web-japan.org/nipponia/index.html

 

Radio:

J-wave:

http://www.j-wave.co.jp/

NHK:

http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/index_e.html

Radio Links:

http://www.e-radio.co.jp/index.html

 

TV:

ANN:

http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/ann/news/web/index.html

NHK:

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/

NNN:

http://www.news24.jp/index.html

TBS:

http://news.tbs.co.jp/

 

Universities and Colleges:

http://www.etextshop.com/links/universities.html

A plain page with links to online universities, colleges, and schools.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/1-6-4-5.html

Japanese links of the Sussex Language Institute based in Great Britain.

 

Additional Resources:

Oral Language Archive (audio conversations)

Japanese Stories

Japanese Television Commercials

Japan RealPlayer Browse the guide to find something.