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» AJALT - Association for Japanese Language Teaching. Offers private, group, and online lessons.

» Alessandro's Home Page - Japanese grammar written in English and Italian (intended for manga translation).

» Charles Kelly's Web-based Japanese Language Study Materials - Free online quizzes, flashcards and word lists. Covers romaji, hiragana, katakana, kanji, Japanese newspaper words, and reading signs.

» Communicating With the Japanese - Offers examples of how English influenced contemporary Japanese.

» Elementary Japanese Language Course - Nihongo Shoho - Full course (34 lessons) based on the book Nihongo Shoho, with mp3 files, vocabulary trainer, word and kanji index, and other resources. Some free lessons, most content requires purchase.

» Griffith University: Basic Japanese Resources - Features an introduction to 400 basic kanji and basic grammar information.

» Japan Culture Study Group - Several Japanese lessons and explantions made by Japanese instructors.

» Japanese for the Western Brain - A series of articles outlining the basic parts of Japanese speech from an English-speaker's perspective.

» The Japanese Language - Explains usage of some particles, grammar and vocabulary.

» Japanese Language Learning for Mobile Phones - Japanese-language learning for small screen devices, as well as computers. Also enables students to create their own lists of kanji and vocabulary for study via a database.

» Japanese-Online - Free Japanese language lessons and translated math story problems from Japan's jr. high math placement tests.

» Japanesepod101.com - Several podcasts that teach Japanese from beginning to intermediate levels. Requires registration. Only some content is available free.

» Joyo 96 - Free online resources, advice, and links to recommended books and other study aids. Also features a Japanophiles email list.

» Kana - Downloadable program from Purdue University which teaches hiragana and katakana through visual and verbal mnemonics. Includes flash cards and guessing games.

» Kana Flashcards - Kana online learning tool.

» Kanji Clinic - A column appearing every third Friday in The Japan Times aiming at providing practical advice to non-Japanese adults striving to become literate in Japanese by learning the 1,945 general-use kanji. It is written by Mary Sisk Noguchi, associate professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan.

» Kanji Game - Free online game with multiple levels of difficulty, matching kanji characters to their meanings or hiragana and katakana characters to their pronunciations.

» The Kanji Site - A step-by-step guide to hundreds of kanji, with random testing and a search function. Intended for JLPT study. Works on machines without Japanese support.

» KanjiLearn - Online flashcard program and dictionary of 2135 kanji.

» Kanji-Step - Various learning resources, including animated guides to learning kanji, hiragana, and katakana, as well as more advanced lessons. Also features placement tests, book and multimedia reviews, a forum, and a penpal registry.

» Learn How to Wow in Japanese! - Learn interesting Japanese while having fun. Grammar, kanji, culture and a little bit of everything Japanese for free.

» Learn Japanese Kana - Offers printable charts of hiragana and katakana characters as well as the most basic kanji. Also features a kana matching game.

» Learn Japanese Online - Introduces basic Japanese with flash quizzes that test kana and vocabulary.

» Learn-Japanese.net - A forum dedicated to the study of the Japanese language.

» Lesson/J - Java applet offering listening comprehension exercises at various levels of proficiency.

» Mainichi-Kanji - Introduces a new kanji on each weekday, with readings, meanings and examples. On weekends the week's kanji are reviewed. The site can be viewed on any computer, no Japanese fonts are required.

» NHK Japanese Lessons for English Speakers - Japan's publicly-funded broadcasting corporation offers free audio lessons.

» Nihongo o Narau - Learn Japanese - Covers basic grammar and vocabulary.

» Nihongo Pera Pera (Fluent Japanese) - An introduction to computer software and study techniques for becoming fluent in Japanese.

» Online Japanese Study - Free website offers beginning and intermediate online textbook with corresponding tests, as well as information on different dialects and a notice board for meeting conversation partners.

» Pera Pera Penguin's 5-minute Japanese Class - Offers short conversational Japanese lessons from a 15 year teacher of the language.

» The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese - Webpage version of the sci.lang.japan guide to basic Japanese grammar and syntax.

» Real Kana - A simple site for learning and practicing hiragana and katakana, the two Japanese syllabaries.

» Reiko-chan's Japanese for Anime-Lovers - Web based lessons on Japanese, with links to lessons on the writing systems.

» Rikai - Free site that allows you to read Japanese kanji on any webpage by passing your mouse cursor over the characters.

» Teach Yourself Japanese - With introduction, basic writing system, grammar, vocabulary, and dialogues.

» Teach Yourself Japanese - Features instructions for learning hiragana, basic phrases and vocabulary lists, and basic grammar information.

» Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo - Offers language practice on several grammatical exercises in Japanese.

» Web Japanese - Today's Kanji, daily and monthly columns for students of the Japanese language.

» WordMate: Learn Japanese Fast - Selling a 4-hour tape and workbook for learning basic Japanese.

» Japanese Podcasting Lessons - Learn basic Japanese through video podcasts. [RSS]

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