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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Leanr your kanji for free with this website.