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[beginner] Site search (151)
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My Kikitori
This is a very useful website for beginner-level learners of Japanese who are looking for a way to practice their listening.
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Japanese-Lesson.com
This is a useful website for any learners who are thinking they want to begin studying Japanese. Everything is written in English.
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Escucha japones 聞く日本語
This is a website to help Spanish speakers with their Japanese listening and conversation practice. You can listen to daily conversation set to a fun, bouncy rhythm and practise through repetition.
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KanjiRepeater
This is a website where you can practise the 1,006 "kyouiku kanji" (all the characters taught in Japanese primary schools, separated by grade).
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YOUR NAME IN JAPANESE
This is an online tool which converts names written using the Roman alphabet into katakana notation. How do you write your own name in katakana? Why not try checking here?
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sci.lang.japan Frequently Asked Questions
This website presents a convenient collection of Frequently Asked Questions about Japan and the Japanese language.
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マルチメディア「にほんごをまなぼう」
You can learn the kind of language often used in Japanese schools, including greetings, conversation and classroom instructions.
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日本語らくだ Nihongorakuda
This is a site created by the University of Jordan's Japanese language education programme.
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J-LEARNING.COM Learn Japanese On Line
This is a website where you can study all aspects of beginner-level Japanese grammar. Starting with basic words and expressions, you can study here with grammar explanations that make use of simple slides to help you understand, various questions or pieces to read, worksheets and kanji tutorials too.
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Online Nihongo
This is a site where you can learn how to read (pronounce) and write the kana. Check your knowledge of hiragana and katakana through a number of quizzes.
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JOSHU – Japanese Online Self-Help Utility
This is a self-study site where you can try some hiragana/katakana practice, or verb conjugation and particle practice. You can also watch videos showing Japanese culture seen through the eyes of American university students.
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Digital EHON (Picture Book) Site
On this site you can read, and listen to, Japanese folklore tales in 12 different languages, with accompanying pictures.
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Online Japanese Tests
On this site you can try quizzes on Japanese grammar, vocabulary, kanji, listening and reading comprehension and JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) questions. As well as English, the site has support for Chinese and Korean.
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Kanji Clinic
This is a column that appears in the Japan Times, designed to help develop kanji learning methods aimed at foreigners. The background, make-up etc. of various kanji are introduced in articles with various themes.
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Visualizing Japanese Grammar
Here you can check your understanding of the main points of beginner-level Japanese grammar, through watching, listening and reading.
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JPLANG 日本語を学ぶ
Here you can study a range of different aspects of Japanese - grammar, vocabulary, conversation, reading, listening and so on - from beginner to intermediate level.
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English-Japanese Vocabulary Quizzes
Vocabulary is included on a wide range of categories, from subjects such as animals, the human body, baseball and buildings to more academic contents. There are plenty of quizzes too.
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かな・カナの書きかた
This is a site where you can find how to read and write hiragana and katakana. You can learn about 'Writing' 'Pronunciation' and 'Vocabulary' for each.
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Genki Japan
Using this site you can study Japanese in an easy and fun way and find out some basic information about Japan. There's plenty of games and songs to be found here too.
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Student Resources for Nakama 2nd edition
This is a supplementary website designed to go with the revised edition of the "Nakama" series of Japanese language textbooks (Nakama 1a and 1b).