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.

Games to learn English
Print and Play : ALEA Games offers free card and board games for the English language teacher and student. Beautiful board games are also for sale to print. Check it out, it's worth the look!
Learn English with fun games.

The site 1000 images on the tip of my tongue is interactive, and focuses on idiomatic expressions that have the same meaning in French, English and Spanish, but cannot be translated word for word*. This trilingual directory provides more than 1,000 idiomatic phrases classified according to theme. Each one is inserted into a short text that illustrates its meaning and contains a digital audio file. Listening to the file allows us to fully understand all the various shades in the pronunciation. The site also includes exercises and games as well as brief, humorous animations, which contribute to the discovery of the fascinating world of colourful expressions.

Japanese Language Proficiency Test Vocabulary Lists

Lists of vocabulary used for the JLPT levels 4 to 1. Various quizzes on adjectives, nouns and verbs appear for levels 4 and 3. There are also many lessons and vocbaulary flash cards to help the Japanese language learner.

• Are you a student willing to pass your Chinese language exams (HSK)?
• Do you have to assimilate basic Chinese very fast for business reasons?
• Do you expect to travel in China and/or discover the Chinese culture?
• Learn Chinese 2008 will help you enhance your fluency in Chinese and follow your progression :

  Beginner : Focus on the most frequent characters
  Intermediate : Regularly Add words to your custom word lists to follow your progress
  Advanced : Find any character in the 25,000-word dictionary using the search engine

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.

Imagemo is a free personalizable software which helps to learn how to read based on the connection between an image and a word..
It is based on 4 activities :
- Association between a word and an image
- Classification of words beginning by a letter
- Rewriting of a word with letters chosen on a keyboard
- Playing memory game with image, images and text or just text.

Type in an English word and get the translations. Interesting to note that Japanese homophones are linked to a page which compares words with the same reading but different characters. Simple and easy to use.

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.

Practice Kanji by Typing Hiragana

This site lets you practice learning kanji by typing hiragana.

It’s easy to use.  Click ‘Kanji’ and choose which kanji words you’d like to practice.

Next, click ‘Practice’.  As you are presented with each word, type its rōmaji equivalent (e.g., ‘genki’).

As you type, hiragana characters will appear.  Hit ‘Enter’ to submit your guess.

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

That’s it!