Games to download and print to learn French.

Great for French language teachers but also for students learning French second language. Free materials and ressources for French teachers as well as beautiful family board games for sale. Worth taking a look at!

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 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.

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

Learn japanese vocabulary and roll over images to hear the pronunciation.

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.

Self-study Room offers a variety of online materials to support your learning

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.

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.

Introduction to Katakana

4 lessons and flashcards to get a grip on Katakanas. Well done site done at the College of Arts and College of Humanities of The Ohio State University.

Audio files help pronunciation and Quicktime application shows the brushtrokes of each katakana.

Japanese songs and lyrics in MP3 & MIDI formats with lyrics and translation in English.

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.

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.
It is also assumed that since you are studying Japanese, you have installed a Japanese font on your computer. This program does not come with its own font. It will try to use the available Japanese font on your computer.

The Reading Tutor was designed to help JFL/JSL learners improve their reading skills in Japanese. This system was developed specifically to help learners study written Japanese at their own pace, in their own way.

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!

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!

This is a page for learning hiragana, one of the Japanese syllabaries. You'll need Javascript to run it. (You probably have it already.)

The basic idea is to go through the deck randomly (by pressing Next card), until you can recognize all the kana.

Learn Japanese in minutes with One Minute Languages courses podcast. You can download the MP3 episode.

Learn Japanese from the JapaneseLingQ podcast. Each episode can be studied using the learning tools available at LingQ.com.

Learn Japanese pod is a podcast for people who want to learn Japanese in a fun and easy way. It is produced by Beb and Alex

A simple but fast and intuitive kanji dictionary, with search by radicals (+strokes), kana, and english.

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.

For people who want to learn beginning Japanese, we've prepare 100 important phrases with helpful audio & visual aids.

Leanr your kanji for free with this website.

JGram is dedicated to helping people learn to speak Japanese, in the most effective interactive way: by communicating, sharing knowledge, and talking between Japanese and non-native speakers. This is an interactive community where you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge to our growing database of Japanese grammar. We also encourage you to spread the word and recruit your friends (especially any native speaking friends) to contribute.