LANGUAGE & TRANSLATION CENTER JAPANESE

JAPANESE – 日本語-英語
&
CLASSICAL JAPANESE

English <> Japanese
日本語-英語
and Japanese to other Languages

Japanese Text-to-Speech (TTS)
Japanese Speech Synthesizer – 日本語スピーチシンセサイザー
Japanese Speech Synthesis – 日本語音声合成
(Text, Images & Audio/Sound)

English <> Japanese Medical Dictionaries
英語 – 日本語医学用語辞典

JAPANESE & CLASSICAL JAPANESE COURSES, LESSONS, ETC.

BASIC JAPANESE
Courses & Lessons including Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Grammar,
Spelling, Japanese Keyboards, Your Name in Japanese, etc.
(Text, Images, Animations, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound)

JAPANESE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TESTS

FIRST YEAR JAPANESE
(Text, Images, Animations, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound)

First Year Japanese Courses, Lessons, Textbooks, etc.

Japanese Keyboards – Hiragana Japanese Keyboard – Katakan Japanese Keyboard

Japanese Spelling Lessons & Japanese Spell Checker

First Year Japanese Writing Courses & Lessons with Stroke Demonstrations

First Year Japanese Grammar Courses, Lessons, Conjugation Builder

First Year Japanese Exercises, Tests, Vocabulary Builders, etc.

INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED “JAPANESE” & “CLASSICAL JAPANESE”
(Text, Images, Animations, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound)

Intermediate & Advanced Classical Japanese (Bungo Nyûmon) Courses & Lessons

Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Courses & Lessons

Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Writing Courses, Lessons with Stroke Demonstrations

Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Listening & Reading Lessons

JAPANESE LITERATURE, JAPANESE POETRY & JAPANESE HISTORY
(Text, Images, Animations, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound)

Languages: A-G ~
Languages: H-R ~
Languages: S-Z

English ~
Sign Language & Braille

Indigenous Languages of U.S. & Canada ~
Indigenous Languages of Australia

Indigenous Languages of Mexico, Central America & South America

Writing Systems, Body Language,
Languages (Sounds) of Birds, Fish, Frogs, Insects, Seals, Whales, etc.

Linguistics, Language Journals, Fonts, Keyboard, Resources

Language Center

JAPANESE LANGUAGE – 言語日本語

• • Official Language of Japan.

• • Spoken in Over “40” Countries.

• • Over

“127” Million (総務省 統計局 – Statistis Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)

• • Speakers in Japan.

• • Over

“450,000” (U.S. Detailed Language Tables – Conducted 2006-2008 – Released 2010 – Spoke a Language (Japanese) other than English at Home)

• • Speakers in the U.S.

• • Writing System: Han Script, Hiragana Script, and Katakana Script.

English <> Japanese – 日本語-英語

English <> Japanese – 日本語-英語 – with Japanese Word and Sentence Pronunciation

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” AND JAPANESE TO OTHER LANGUAGES – J. Breen,
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Faculty of Information Technology,
Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia
Multimedia English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation to other Languages (Text, Images & Audio/Sound).

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary

• • English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation

• • English <> Japanese Translation

• • Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation to other Languages

Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC Dictionary Server also includes

• • “…Find Kanji (MultiRadical Method);

• • Handwritten Interface;

• • Keitai Text Translation; etc…”

For more information see

Jim Breen’s Japanese Page or

Jim Breen’s Home Page

English <> Japanese – 日本語-英語 – Japanese to other Languages – Word, Text & Website Translation

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” AND JAPANESE TO OVER “63” OTHER LANGUAGES – Google
Multimedia English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation and
English <> Japanese to over “63” other Languages (Text, Images & Audio/Sound).

Includes Audio Pronunciation for English & Japanese.

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary

• • English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation

• • English <> Japanese Translation

• • and Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation to over “63” other Languages

For more information see

Google

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” AND JAPANESE TO OTHER LANGUAGES – POPjisyo.com, Michael Foster
Multimedia English <> Japanese Dictionary & Other Languages (Text & Images).

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary

• • English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation

• • English <> Japanese Translation

• • Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation to other Languages – Move the mouse cursor over the following words to display pop-up definitions

English <> Japanese – 日本語-英語 – Word, Text & Website Translation

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” – Systran S.A.
Multimedia English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation (Text & Images).

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary

• • English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation

• • English <> Japanese Translation

• • and Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation

For more information see

Systran

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” – Bing Translator,
Microsoft
Multimedia English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation (Text & Images).

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary

• • English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation

• • English <> Japanese Translation

• • and Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation

For more information see

Bing

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” – Excite Japan Co., Ltd.
Multimedia English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation (Text & Images).

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary

• • English <> Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation

• • English <> Japanese Translation

• • and Japanese Word, Text & Website Translation

For more information see

Excite Japan

Japanese <> French – Français <> Japonais Hiragana

“FRANÇAIS-JAPONAIS HIRAGANA” “JAPONAIS HIRAGANA-FRANÇAIS – Deucas
Multimedia Français <> Japonais Hiragana Dictionnaire (Text & Images).
For more information see

Petit dictionnaire-thésaurus jp-fr

Japanese <> Russian – 日本語-ロシア語

“JAPANESE-RUSSIAN” “ロシア語-日本語” – Multitran, Russia
Multimedia Russian <> Japanese Dictionary (Text & Images).

• • Russian <> Japanese Dictionary – Russian Japanese Dictionary

• • Russian <> Japanese Translation

Japanese <> Uyghur

“JAPANESE-MODERN UYGHUR” “MODERN UYGHUR-JAPANESE” – Jun Sugawara,
Japan
Multimedia Japanese <> Modern Uyghur Dictionary (Text & Images).
For more information see

Resources or

Xinjiang Research Lab

English <> Japanese – 日本語-英語

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” – Grzegorz Bober,
Tangorin.com
Multimedia English <> Japanese Dictionary (Text & Images).

English <> Japanese Dictionary includes

• • English <> Japanese Words Dictionary
    • “…contains Over “136,000” words…”

• • • “…Search by: Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana & Rõmaji…”

English <> Japanese Kanji Dictionary

• • • “…Chinese characters dictionary with over 13,000 ideograms. Complete

• • • with ON, KUN, NANORI as well as chinese PINYIN and korean HANGUL readings,

• • • english meanings, radicals, stroke counts, classification and dictionary codes…”

• • • “…Search by: Kanji, Kana, Rõmaji, English Meaning, Pinyin & Hangul…”

English <> Japanese Sentence (Phrases) Dictionary contains

• • • “…Over 148,000 parallel Japanese-English example sentences compiled by Professor Yasuhito Tanaka and his students at Hyogo University…”

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” – goo, NTT Resonant Inc., Japan
Multimedia English <> Japanese Dictionary (Text & Images).

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Translation

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” – DENSHI JISHO – ONLINE JAPANESE DICTIONARY – Kim Ahlström
Multimedia English <> Japanese Dictionary & includes Find Kanji, Kanji by Radicals & Find Sentences (Text & Images).

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Translation

Denshi Jisho

• • “…is an easy-to-use and powerful online Japanese dictionary. It lets you find words,

• • kanji and example sentences by searching in many ways…”

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” – SPACE ALC Inc., Japan
Multimedia English <> Japanese Dictionary (Text & Images).

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Translation

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE” “日本語-英語” – Ectaco Corporate Center, N.Y.
Multimedia English <> Japanese Dictionary (Text & Images).

• • English <> Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Dictionary – English Japanese Translation

For more information see

Online Dictionaries;

Ectaco U.K. or

Ectaco U.S.

Japanese Text-To-Speech with Text, Images & Audio/Sound

WORD OR TEXT-TO-SPEECH: “JAPANESE (日本語)” – MALE VOICE – Open JTalk:
HMM-based Text-to-Speech System,
Open JTalk Demonstration Page;
Tokuda & Lee Laboratory,
Nagoya Institute of Technology,
Japan
Multimedia Japanese Text-To-Speech (TTS) (Text, Images & Audio/Sound).

Text to Speech Demo’s (TTS Demo’s) – Enter Text

• • • • “…Japanese Text to Speech Demo – Japanese Text-To-Speech Demo;

• • • • Japanese Speech Synthesizer –

日本語スピーチシンセサイザー

• • • • Japanese Speech Synthesis –

日本語音声合成For more information see

Tokuda & Lee Laboratory

WORD OR TEXT-TO-SPEECH: “JAPANESE (日本語)” – MALE AND/OR FEMALE VOICES – Oddcast Inc.
Multimedia Japanese Text-To-Speech (TTS) (Text, Images & Audio/Sound).

Text to Speech Demo’s (TTS Demo’s) – Enter Text

• • • • “…Japanese Text to Speech Demo – Japanese Text-To-Speech Demo;

• • • • Japanese Speech Synthesizer –

日本語スピーチシンセサイザー

• • • • Japanese Speech Synthesis –

日本語音声合成For more information see

Text-to-Speech (TTS);

Technology or

Oddcast Inc.

WORD OR TEXT-TO-SPEECH: “JAPANESE (日本語)” – MALE VOICE – Smart Link Corporation
Multimedia Japanese Text-To-Speech (TTS) & Other Languages (Text, Images & Audio/Sound).

Text to Speech Demo’s (TTS Demo’s) – Enter Text

• • • • “…Japanese Text to Speech Demo – Japanese Text-To-Speech Demo;

• • • • Japanese Speech Synthesizer –

日本語スピーチシンセサイザー

• • • • Japanese Speech Synthesis –

日本語音声合成For more information see

Smart Link Corporation

English <> Japanese Medical Dictionary – 英語 – 日本語医学用語辞典

“ENGLISH-JAPANESE MEDICAL DICTIONARY” “英語 – 日本語医学用語辞典“ – T. Oi, Japan
Multimedia English <> Japanese Medical Dictionary (Text & Images).

BASIC JAPANESE

• • Basic Japanese Courses & Lessons

• • Japanese Vocabulary Lessons, Japanese Grammar Lessons, Japanese Spelling Lessons,

• • Japanese Pronunciation Lessons, Online Japanese Keyboard, Your Name in Japanese, etc.

Basic Japanese Lessons with Text, Images & Audio/Sound

INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE – LanguageGuide.org
Multimedia Basic/First Year Japanese Vocabulary Lessons (Text, Images & Audio/Sound).

Japanese Lessons

• • • • “…place cursor over any of the images and hear

• • • • their names pronounced and see them spelled out…”

Japanese Vocabulary Lessons (Front Page) include

• • • • “…Japanese words for the Body; etc…”

Japanese Vocabulary Lessons (Archive) include

• • • • Hiragana;

• • • • Katakana;

• • • • Japanese words for Greetings;

• • • • Japanese words for Numbers;

• • • • Japanese words for Men’s & Women’s Clothing;

• • • • Japanese words for Mammals, Birds, Insects, etc.;

• • • • Japanese words for Food, Plants, Landscape, etc.;

• • • • Japanese words for Travel;

• • • • Japanese words for the Car;

• • • • Japanese words for Medicine;

• • • • Japanese words for Tools; etc…”

For more information see

LanguageGuide

Japanese Keyboards – Hiragana Japanese Keyboard – Katakan Japanese Keyboard

HIRAGANA JAPANESE KEYBOARD – Lexilogos.com, Xavier Nègre,
France
Multimedia Hiragana Japanese Keyboard (Text & Images).
For more information see

Keyboard Index or

Lexilogos

KATAKANA JAPANESE KEYBOARD – Lexilogos.com, Xavier Nègre,
France
Multimedia Katakan Japanese Keyboard (Text & Images).
For more information see

Keyboard Index or

Lexilogos

JAPANESE KEYBOARD – Gate2Home.com
Multimedia Online Japanese Keyboard (Text & Images).
For more information see

Gate2Home.com

Your Name in Japanese

YOUR NAME IN JAPANESE – E. Takase, Takase Studios, Fine Japanese Calligraphy
Multimedia Your Name in Japanese (Text & Images).

Your Name in Japanese

• • • • “…This list has over 2000 first names in Japanese…Translation from English to Romaji,

• • • • Hiragana, Katakana & Kanji with notes…”

For more information see

Takase Studios

YOUR NAME IN JAPANESE – Philip Ronan
Multimedia Your Name in Japanese (Text & Images).

Your Name in Japanese

• • • • “…In Japanese, foreign names are normally written using the phonetic katakana alphabet…”

JAPANESE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TESTS

Japanese Language Proficiency Tests

JAPANESE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY – The Japan Foundation &
apan Education Exchanges and Services
Multimedia Japanese Language Proficiency Test (Text & Images).

FIRST YEAR JAPANESE

• • First Year Japanese Courses & Lessons

• • Japanese Vocabulary Lessons & Tests, Japanese Grammar Lessons, Japanese Spelling Lessons,

• • Japanese Pronunciation Lessons, Japanese Reading Lessons, Japanese Listening Lessons,

• • Japanese Writing Lessons, Japanese Stroke Demonstrations, Japanese Sentence Structure Lessons,

• • Online Japanese Keyboard, Japanese Spell Checker, etc.

First Year Japanese Courses & Lessons

First Year Japanese Courses & Lessons with Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound

INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE (QUICKTIME & WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER) – S. Takasugi, Yokohama, Japan
Multimedia First Year Japanese Course (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

First Year Japanese Course Lessons include

• • • • Standard Hiragana Lessons include
        • “…Hiragana for vowels; Hiragana for k/g + vowels; Hiragana for s/z + vowels;

• • • • • Hiragana for t/d + vowels; Hiragana for n + vowels; etc…”

Double Hiragana Lessons include

• • • • • “…Double hiragana for consonants + y + vowels; etc…”

Hiragana Table with Lessons

• • • • • “…contains all the hiragana except ones with voiced sound marks, ones

• • • • • with semi-voiced sound marks, and small hiragana…”

Katakan Table with Lessons

• • • • • “…Each katakana is shown with its pronunciation. Being exactly the same

• • • • • as hiragana except for their shapes, katakana have the same

• • • • • pronunciations as hiragana,….”

Punctuation;

Java program to draw hiragana strokes;

Java program to draw katakana strokes;

Numbers & Java program to display numbers;

Grammar

• • • • • “…Verbs; Adjectives; Negative forms; Java program to display inflections; etc…”

Vocabulary; Reading; etc.

For more information see

Shinji Takasugi’s Home Page

JAPANESE LESSONS – JOSHU: JAPANESE ONLINE SELF-HELP UTILITY – Projector Director: Naoko Suito,
Center for East Asian Studies,
Department Of Asian Studies,
College of Liberal Arts,
and the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS),
University of Texas,
Austin, Texas
Multimedia First Year & Intermediate Japanese Courses/Lessons (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

First Year & Intermediate Japanese Subject Categories include

• • • • “…Kana: Hiragana & Katakana;

• • • • Kanji;

• • • • Japanese Vocabulary;

• • • • Japanese Grammar;

• • • • Japanese Culture (Sports, Celebrations, Customs, People on the Street, etc.);

• • • • Counters; etc…”

For more information see

Japanese Program;

Courses;

Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS) or the

Center for East Asian Studies

JAPANESE LESSONS – JAPANESE IN JAPAN – Five College Center for the Study of World Languages;
Five Colleges, Incorporated is the consortium of Amherst College,
Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst;
Five Colleges, Inc.
Multimedia First Year Japanese Lessons – Japanese in Japan (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

Examples of First Year Japanese Video Lessons include

• • • • “…Greetings and Partings Video Lessons;

• • • • Asking for Directions Video Lessons;

• • • • Using the Telephone Video Lessons;

• • • • Finding a Restroom Video Lessons;

• • • • Eating Out Video Lessons;

• • • • Lodging Video Lessons;

• • • • Food Shopping Video Lessons;

• • • • Banks and Money Video Lessons;

• • • • Post Office Video Lessons;

• • • • Traveling by Train Video Lessons;

• • • • Taking a Taxi Video Lessons; etc…”

For more information see

Japanese;

LangMedia: Resources of World Languages or the

Five Colleges, Incorporated

KANJI ALIVE – Harumi Hibino Lory & Arno Bosse;
Hosted by the University of Chicago Library,
University of Chicago
Multimedia First Year & Intermediate Kanji Course (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

Kanji Alive

• • • • “…In addition to the practical information needed to use kanji effectively,

• • • • we have also written a supplement which covers the history of kanji, stroke order basics,

• • • • and radicals, in order to foster a deeper understanding of kanji…”

• • • • “…Kanji alive includes all Kyouiku Kanji which are taught in Japanese elementary schools

• • • • and all kanji in Level 2 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test…”

GENKI SELF STUDY ROOM: JAPANESE LESSONS, EXERCISES, QUIZZES, ETC. (QUICKTIME, WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER) – The Japan Times Online,
Tokyo, Japan
Multimedia Genki Online: Japanese Lessons, Exercises, Quizzes, etc. (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).
For more information see

Genki Online or

The Japan Times Online

• • • • Some examples of Genki Online Lessons, Quizzes, Exercises, etc. include

HIRAGANA Chart: Stroke Order and Sound

HIRAGANA Listening Quiz

KATAKANA Chart: Stroke Order and Sound

KATAKANA Listening Quiz

Grammar/Conversation

Genki Movies: Greetings and Dialogue

Genki Movies: Greetings and Dialogue

• • • • • • • Includes over “22” Lessons”.

Verb/Adjective Conjugation Practice

Verb/Adjective Conjugation Practice

• • • • • • • Includes over “10” Verb/Adjective Conjugation Practice Lessons including
              • “…Adjective Past Affirmative;

• • • • • • • • Verb Te-form;

• • • • • • • • Short Form Adjective Present Negative;

• • • • • • • • Short Form Verb Past Negative;

• • • • • • • • Potential Form;

• • • • • • • • Verb Passive Form; etc…”

Kanji Reading Practice

First Year Japanese Courses & Lessons with Text, Images, Animations & Audio/Sound

JAPANESE LESSONS (REAL PLAYER) – AJALT, produced by PLAIN Corporation,
Japan
Multimedia Japanese Lesson (Text, Images, Animations & Audio/Sound).

Japanese Lesson Categories include

• • • • Learning Supplements Lessons include
        • “…Adjectives; Verbs; Family; Telephone; etc…”

Survival Japanese Lessons include

• • • • • “…Japanese Conversation;

• • • • • Japanese Vacabulary (600 Words in 24 Groups);

• • • • • Japanese Communication Tools;

• • • • • Japanese Grammar; etc…”

Real World Japanese Lessons include

• • • • • “…General Lessons;

• • • • • Business Lessons; etc…”

Learning Japanese through Kanji; etc.

For more information see

AJALT

First Year Japanese Courses & Lessons with Text, Images & Animations

KANJI: A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS OF JAPANESE KANJI – The Kanji SITE
Multimedia First Year JLPT Kanji Lessons & Kana Lessons (Text, Images & Animations).

Kana

• • • • “…Kana is a collective term referring to hiragana and katakana,

• • • • the two syllabic Japanese alphabets. Whereas kanji represent ideas

• • • • or concepts, hiragana and katakana only represent syllables…”

• • • • Hiragan
        • “…is curvilinear and is used to write certain Japanese words, such as

• • • • • particles (wa, ga, ni), conjunctions, certain nouns and so on. Hiragana

• • • • • suffixes are also used with kanji stems to form verbs and adjectives…”

• • • • • “…there’s only 46 basic hiragana, most written with only two or three strokes,…”

Katakana

• • • • • “…characters are more angular than their hiragana counterparts and

• • • • • are used for words of foreign origin, emphasis…”

JLPT Kanji

• • • • “…Chose from Level 4, 3 or 2…”

• • • • “…Each level includes Vocabulary, Grammar, etc…”

Japanese Keyboards – Hiragana Japanese Keyboard – Katakan Japanese Keyboard

HIRAGANA JAPANESE KEYBOARD – Lexilogos.com, Xavier Nègre,
France
Multimedia Hiragana Japanese Keyboard (Text & Images).
For more information see

Keyboard Index or

Lexilogos

KATAKANA JAPANESE KEYBOARD – Lexilogos.com, Xavier Nègre,
France
Multimedia Katakan Japanese Keyboard (Text & Images).
For more information see

Keyboard Index or

Lexilogos

JAPANESE KEYBOARD – Gate2Home.com
Multimedia Online Japanese Keyboard (Text & Images).
For more information see

Gate2Home.com

Japanese Spelling Lessons & Japanese Spell Checker

JAPANESE ON-LINE SPELL CHECKER – Life Science Dictionary Project, Japan

• • • Multimedia Japanese Spelling Checker (Text & Images).

• • • • For more information see

Life Science Dictionary Project

First Year Japanese Writing Courses & Lessons and Stroke Demonstrations with Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound

JAPANESE LANGUAGE WRITING COURSE – KANJI PRACTICE (QUICKTIME) – Mayumi Ishida,
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature,
Dartmouth University
Multimedia First Year, Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Writing Course (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

Kanji Practice

• • • • “…is a site which helps learners of Japanese to master reading and writing kanji…”

For each kanji

• • • • “…the site offers a brushstroke image, a brief video clip demonstrating stroke order, sample sentences for On and Kun readings with accompanying audio clips, print variations and the English translation of the kanji…”

Kanji Practice includes

• • • • “…Kanji 1-50; Kanji 51-100; Kanji 101-150; Kanji 151-200; Kanji 201-250

• • • • Kanji 251-300; Momotaro; Nihongo…”

For more information see

Japanese Language Course Home Page;

Ishida-Senee’s Home Page or the

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature

JAPANESE LANGUAGE WRITING COURSE (QUICKTIME) – Author: Masayoshi Kanai
and hosted by the Akita International University, Japan
Multimedia First Year, Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Writing Course (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

Available in English & Japanese.

Masayoshi Kanai’s Japanese Writing Course includes

• • • • “…Hiragana Stroke Demonstration Movies;

• • • • Katakana Stroke Demonstration Movies;

• • • • Shougaku 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 nensei + etc Kanji Stroke Demonstration Movies;

• • • • Jouyou Kanji Stroke Demonstration Movies;

• • • • Jouyougai Kanji Stroke Demonstration Movies; etc…”

USAGI-CHAN’S JAPANESE WRITING LESSONS (QUICKTIME & FLASH) – Authors: Andrea Shea & Kazue Masuyama,
Usagi-Chan’s Genki Resource Center,
Japanese Program,
Department of World Languages & Literatures,
California State University, Sacramento
Multimedia Japanese First Year Japanese Writing Lessons (Text, Images & Videos/Movies).

includes

• • • • “…Hiragana Stroke Order Stroke Demonstrations & Hiragana Drag-n-Drop Exercises;

• • • • Katakana Stroke Order Stroke Demonstrations & Katakana Drag-n-Drop Exercises;

• • • • Kanji Stroke Order Stroke Demonstrations…”

For more information see the

Japanese Program or the

Department of World Languages & Literatures

First Year Japanese Grammar Courses, Lessons, Conjugation Builder, etc.

Japanese Grammar Lessons

VISUALIZING JAPANESE GRAMMAR (FLASH) – Author: Shoko Hamano,
Illustrated by: Wakana Kikuchi,
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures,
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences,
George Washington University
Multimedia Visualizing Japanese Grammar (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

Visualizing Japanese Grammar

• • • • “…provides a collection of 66 flash animations and 12 downloadable

• • • • PowerPoint shows illustrating basic concepts and patterns in

• • • • Japanese grammar…”

For more information see the

Shoko Hamano’s Home Page or the

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Japanese Verb Conjugation

JAPANESE VERB CONJUGATION – Verbix
Multimedia Japanese Verb Conjugation (Text & Images).
For more information see

Verbix

First Year Japanese Exercises, Tests, Vocabulary Builders, etc.

Kanji Language Exercises

DICTATION QUIZZES OF JAPANESE SPEECH – Jouji Miwa,
Speech Information Processing & Multimedia Signal Processing,
Department of Computer and Information Science,
Faculty of Engineering,
Iwate University, Japan

Dictation Quizzes of Japanese Speech Contents

• • • • “…are the quizzes using Java applets for learners of Japanese to train

• • • • themselves for hearing spoken sentences, words, syllables, special morae

• • • • and accent…”

For more information see

Speech Information Processing & Multimedia Signal Processing

Kanji Vocabulary Tests

ENGLISH TO JAPANESE VACABULARY TESTS – Goethe-Verlag GmbH
Multimedia First & Second Year English to Japanese Vocabulary Tests.
For more information see

Goethe-Tests Index;

Goethe-Tests or

Goethe-Verlag

JAPANESE TO ENGLISH VACABULARY TESTS – Goethe-Verlag GmbH
Multimedia First & Second Year Japanese to English Vocabulary Tests.
For more information see

Goethe-Tests Index;

Goethe-Tests or

Goethe-Verlag

INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED JAPANESE

• • Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Courses & Lessons

• • Japanese Grammar Lessons, Japanese Spelling Lessons, Japanese Pronunciation Lessons,

• • Japanese Reading Lessons, Japanese Listening Lessons, Japanese Audio Lessons,

• • Japanese Writing Lessons, Japanese Stroke Demonstrations, etc.

Intermediate & Advanced Classical Japanese Courses & Lessons

CLASSICAL JAPANESE – BUNGO NYÛMON – Sengoku Daimyô, Anthony J. Bryant
Multimedia Introduction to Classical Japanese Course – Bungo Nyûmon (Text & Images).

Bungo Nyûmon – Classical Japanese Course includes

• • “…Classical Japanese Vocabulary;

• • Classical Japanese Orthography;

• • Classical Japanese Stem Elements;

• • Classical Japanese Adjectives (Shiku-type adjectives, Ku-type adjectives, etc.);

• • Classical Japanese Verbs;

• • Classical Japanese Copulas; etc…”

For more information see the

Sengoku Daimyô

Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Courses & Lessons

Japanese Courses & Lessons with Text, Images, Audio/Sound & Videos/Movies

INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE COURSE (21G-504) – Japanese Language Program,
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures,
MIT Open Courseware
Multimedia Japanese Intermediate Course (Text, Images, Audio/Sound & Videos/Movies).

Japanese III or

Global Studies and Languages

JAPANESE LESSONS – JOSHU: JAPANESE ONLINE SELF-HELP UTILITY – Projector Director: Naoko Suito,
Center for East Asian Studies,
Department Of Asian Studies,
College of Liberal Arts,
and the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS),
University of Texas,
Austin, Texas
Multimedia First Year & Intermediate Japanese Courses/Lessons (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

First Year & Intermediate Japanese Subject Categories include

• • “…Kana: Hiragana & Katakana;

• • Kanji;

• • Japanese Vocabulary;

• • Japanese Grammar;

• • Japanese Culture (Sports, Celebrations, Customs, People on the Street, etc.);

• • Counters; etc…”

For more information see

Japanese Program;

Courses;

Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS) or the

Center for East Asian Studies

KANJI ALIVE – Harumi Hibino Lory & Arno Bosse;
Hosted by the University of Chicago Library,
University of Chicago
Multimedia First Year & Intermediate Kanji Course (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

Kanji Alive

• • “…In addition to the practical information needed to use kanji effectively,

• • we have also written a supplement which covers the history of kanji, stroke order basics,

• • and radicals, in order to foster a deeper understanding of kanji…”

• • “…Kanji alive includes all Kyouiku Kanji which are taught in Japanese elementary schools

• • and all kanji in Level 2 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test…”

Japanese Courses & Lessons with Text, Images & Audio/Sound

JAPANESE (QUICKTIME & WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER) – Global Language Online Support System (GLOSS),
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC),
Monterey, California
Multimedia First Year, Intermediates & Advanced Japanese Courses (Text, Images & Audio/Sound).

Click on “Japanese”, then “Proficiency Level” and then
Skill/Modality”.

All of the GLOSS lessons are categorized into
one of three primary competencies:

• • “…Lexical (Japanese Vocabulary),

• • Structure (Japanese Grammar),

• • Discourse (Sevices that Bind Texts, Japanese Conversations, etc.)…”

Proficiency Levels include

• • First Year Japanese Lessons (1) includes over “10” Japanese Listening Lessons & Japanese Reading Lessons.

• • First Year Japanese Lessons (1+) includes over “3” Japanese Listening Lessons & Japanese Reading Lessons.

• • Intermediate Japanese Lessons (2) includes over “28” Japanese Listening Lessons & Japanese Reading Lessons.

• • Intermediate Japanese Lessons (2+) includes over “24” Japanese Listening Lessons & Japanese Reading Lessons.

• • Advanced Japanese Lessons (3) includes over “21” Japanese Listening Lessons & Japanese Reading Lessons.

For more information see the

Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Intermediate Kanji Lessons

DRILL THE KANJI (JAVA APPLET) – Roger Meyer,
Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo
Multimedia Intermediate Kanji Drill Exercieses (Text & Images).

Available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish & Japanese.

Drill the Kanji

• • “…This program was conceived as a reviewing tool or a drill tool.

• • It is designed for students who have already started to

• • learn Japanese. It is therefore assumed that you can read

• • katakana and hiragana signs…”

For more information see the

Drill the Kanji

Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Writing Courses, Lessons, Stroke Demonstrations with Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound

JAPANESE LANGUAGE WRITING COURSE – KANJI PRACTICE (QUICKTIME) – Mayumi Ishida,
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature,
Dartmouth University
Multimedia First Year, Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Writing Course (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

Kanji Practice

• • “…is a site which helps learners of Japanese to master reading and writing kanji…”

For each kanji

• • “…the site offers a brushstroke image, a brief video clip demonstrating stroke order, sample sentences for On and Kun readings with accompanying audio clips, print variations and the English translation of the kanji…”

Kanji Practice includes

• • “…Kanji 1-50; Kanji 51-100; Kanji 101-150; Kanji 151-200; Kanji 201-250

• • Kanji 251-300; Momotaro; Nihongo…”

For more information see

Japanese Language Course Home Page or the

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature

JAPANESE LANGUAGE WRITING COURSE (QUICKTIME) – Author: Masayoshi Kanai
and hosted by the Akita International University, Japan
Multimedia First Year, Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Writing Course (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).

Available in English & Japanese.

Masayoshi Kanai’s Japanese Writing Course includes

• • “…Hiragana Stroke Demonstration Movies;

• • Katakana Stroke Demonstration Movies;

• • Shougaku 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 nensei + etc Kanji Stroke Demonstration Movies;

• • Jouyou Kanji Stroke Demonstration Movies;

• • Jouyougai Kanji Stroke Demonstration Movies; etc…”

Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Listening & Reading Lessons

Intermediate & Advanced Japanese Listening & Reading Lessons

READING TUTOR TOOLBOX – KAWAMURA Yoshiko, KITAMURA Tatsuya and HOBARA Rei,
School of Language Communication,
Tokyo International University,
Tokyo, Japan
Multimedia Reading Tutorial Toolbox (Text & Images).

Availablel in English, Japanese, German & Dutch.

Reading Tutorial Toolbox

• • “…Paste (or write) a document or text in Japanese into the

• • box and press a Tool button..”

For more information see the

Reading Tutor Home Page

JAPANESE LITERATURE, JAPANESE POETRY & JAPANESE HISTORY

Japanese History

JAPANESE HISTORY – Anthony J. Bryant
Multimedia Japanese History Manuals & Lessons (Text & Images).

Japanese History Manuals & Lessons include

• • “…An Online Japanese Armour Manual;

• • A History of Japanese Clothing and Accessories;

• • An Online Japanese Miscellany;

• • A Basic Introduction to Classical Japanese; etc…”

GAGAKU: JAPANESE COURT MUSIC AND DANCE (REALPLAYER) – Nakata Taizo
Multimedia Gagaku: Japanese Court Music & Dance (Text, Images & Audio/Sound).

Gagaku: Japanese Court Music & Dance

• • “…has been performed for over 1200 years. It has been

• • carefully preserved and handed down to present day as

• • music of the Japanese Imperial Court…”

Japanese Literature & Japanese Poetry

WAKA POETRY – JAPANESE POETRY – WakaPoetry.net,
Project Director: T. McAuley,
School of East Asian Studies,
University of Sheffield
Multimedia Waka Poetry – Japanese Poetry (Text & Images).

Japanese Poetry

• • “…During the course of the festival, I built up a collection of 2001 poems, covering

• • approximately the first thousand years of poetry in Japan. After the end of the festival

• • in 2002, I continued translating and adding poems, including some complete collections,

• • with the result that there are now 3944 translated poems here, making this the

• • largest resource of translated classical Japanese poetry on the web…”

• • “…The poems appear in the original Japanese, transcribed into the Roman alphabet (Romanised)

• • and translated into English. They are accompanied by commentary and background material

• • to fill in the blanks on the world the Old Japanese poets lived in,

• • their beliefs and society…”

For more information see

Thomas McAuley’s Home Page or the

School of East Asian Studies

AOZORA BUNKO – Aozora Bunko, Japan
Multimedia Japanese Literature, Japanese Poetry &
Japanese Drama (Text & Images).

DIGITAL DICTIONARY OF BUDDHISM – Charles Muller,
Faculty of Humanities, Toyo Gakuen University
Multimedia Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (Text & Images).

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism includes

• • Radical; Total Strokes;

• • East Asian Romanized Readings
    • “…Pinyin readings index; Wade-Giles readings index; Korean readings index (Ministry of Culture romanization);

• • • Korean readings index (McCune-Reischauer romanization); Japanese readings index (Hepburn); etc…”

Terms; Texts; etc…”

JAPANESE HISTORICAL TEXT INITIATIVE – University of California, Berkeley;
Hosted by the Japanese Historical Text Initiative (ECAI Japan);
Maintained by the Center for Japanese Studies,
a research unit of the Institute of East Asian Studies
Multimedia Japanese Historical Literature (Text & Images).

Some examples of Japanese Historical Literature include

• • “…Kojiki, Japan’s oldest extant chronicle (Ancient Records and Myths);

• • Nihon Shoki, Japan’s second oldest extant chronicle (Chronicle of Japan);

• • Shoku Nihongi (n official record of events at the Japanese Imperial court between the enthronement of Emperor Mommu in 697 and 771, the second year of Kõnin reign); etc…”

For more information see

Japanese Historical Text Initiative, Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley

JAPANESE LITERATURE – National Institute
of Japanese Literature, Japan
Multimedia Japanese Literature (Text & Images).

JAPANESE TEXT INITIATIVE – Co-editors: Kendon Stubbs (University of Virginia)
& Sachie Noguchi (University of Pittsburgh);
University of Virginia Library
Multimedia Japanese Literature, Japanese Poetry & Japanese Drama (Text & Images).

Japanese Literature, Japanese Poetry & Japanese Drama includes

• • “…Pre-Modern Period (Nara Period, Heian Period, Edo Period, etc.) and the

• • Modern Period…”

NICHIBUNKEN – International Research Center
for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan
Multimedia Japanese Literature (Text & Images).