Jim Breen's Japanese Page

Rikai site                Rikai Japanese to English site

Tamanoyu Inn Website


Some Links for beginning Japanese Students
 
 

Learning Hiragana Visit the following web sites to hear the sound of each hiragana symbol, view the stroke order, or take a quiz testing your knowledge of each hiragana symbol MIT Japanese 1 Kana Study Material Hiragana practice, Kimi Furuta Japanese Writing Tour Mirror Sites ChipChat Hiragana Drill Teach Yourself Japanese

Learning Katakana Visit the following web sites to hear the sound of each katakana symbol, view the stroke order, or take a quiz testing your knowledge of each katakana symbol   MIT Japanese 1 Kana Study Material Japanese Writing Tour Mirror Sites ChipChat Katakana Drill Teach Yourself Japanese

Learning Kanji Visit the following web site at MIT where the kanji are arranged in order of each lesson in Yookoso. When you click on a kanji, you'll see a movie of the kanji painted by a master calligrapher according to the proper stroke order, and also find other information. Yookoso Book 1 and 2 Kanji Study Materials Some background on Kanji, and creative sites: Types of kanji History of kanji for kids Kanji Gallery Index Kanji of the Seasons

Sites for Japanese culture: holidays and festivals Schauwecker's Guide to Japan: Holidays Photo Japan Holidays by month and season National Holidays Sites for Noodles and Table Etiquette Etiquette: what NOT to do Etiquette, space, ohashi Sites for Numeral Counters  List of 500 Japanese Counters Japanese Counters: pronunciation in combination  Try this culture quiz: items you may not recognize!         Quiz Japan

Other web sites for Japanese language and culture:      Web sites for Shinto and for Holidays:

Tanabata (movies, interviews on the Star Festival)                 Shinto Online Network Association
Association of Teachers of Japanese(study abroad, etc.)                          Shinto and Japanese New Religions
JP Net at MIT                                                                                           Blessing by a Shinto Priest
Japanese Studies:University of Sydney
East Asian Libraries Cooperative, Ohio State
Japanese at Georgia Tech
Guide to Japanese Computing, Univ. of Washington
UF Japanese Studies Alcove
Ken Ujie's Teaching Materials

Reading Japanese:

Reading Tutor (copy and paste any Japanese text here to read it)
Rikai.com (click on Japanese-->English and follow instructions)
Eva: Japanese-English Dictionary
Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server
Lambert Shomaker's WWW version of KANJIDIC by Jim Breen
English to Japanese Index to the above
Momotaro, The Peach Boy  (Japanese audio, Japanese text and English translation)
Asahi sinbun

Word Processing:

Shodouka (access any web site in Japanese and get graphic text presentation)
Word processor, translation software (NJWin, NJStar Japanese WP, for Windows IBM)
Global IME (Windows users: input Japanese to web pages, e-mail, and Microsoft Word 2000)

Audio Sites:

MBS Radio News (audio with Japanese text contents, updated 5 times a day)
Yomiuri News Stream (audio with Japanese text outline)
Nikkei Satellite News (audio and video on VDO player)

Japan in Florida:

Consulate General of Japan in Miami

Mac-user Downloadable Japanese language learning materials:

You may download the following programs, among others, from the Japanese-related Projects at Purdue University site:

Hiragana and Katakana

Exercise in Japanese Counters

CATERS (Computer-Assisted Technical Reading System)