Language board games and card games

You can download and print these games to learn Japanese : kanas, hiraganas, katakanas and kanji. Ateliers-alea is a new concept which publishes Japanese board games to print and play. They are now preparing card games to learn Japanese grammar, pronunciation and characters.

Japanese-English / English-Japanese dictionary with a kanji handwriting tool to enter kanji you don't know how to type. Also has memorization tests, custom vocabulary lists for learning words, stroke order animations etc.

Japanese courses : simple & concise. No talk, just action!

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.
The dictionaries are also interlinked so that you can check what the kanji in a word mean individually or what context a word can be used in. You can also look up kanji by the parts it contain.
The data is publicly available and comes from the excellent WWWJDIC project.

To use the dictionary, simply type in the word you would like to find in the box above and press the Search button. To find a Japanese definition of an English word, type in the English word. To look up a Japanese word, you must type in kana or kanji to find the definition. The dictionary is not designed to accept romanized Japanese input. You can also use wildcards ( * ) in your search.

free ESL Games Ideas! free MP3 Songs! English Shows! Site for ESL teachers in elementary schools. Updated monthly. Available in Japanese and English. There is even a Genki English CD available

Kasumi KOBAYASHI enjoys reading aloud, and at the same time, hopes to make Japanese classical literature audiobooks as well as modern ones available to the world for free. Great site to discover japanese literature : audios and transcripts as well.

Leanr your kanji for free with this website.

Real Kana

Hiragana and Katakana Practice

This site lets you practice learning hiragana and katakana, the two Japanese syllabaries.

It’s easy to use.  Click ‘Hiragana’ and/or ‘Katakana’ and choose which characters you’d like to practice.

Then, click ‘Practice’.  As you are presented with each character, type its rōmaji equivalent (e.g., ‘ka’).

If you get stuck, move your mouse over the character, and the answer will appear.

That’s it!

Learning Japanese with audios :
vocabulary, kana, kanji,
verbs and lots of information on Japan.