Japanese Pod 101 http://www.japanesepod101.com/
Learn Japanese with Daily Podcasts from Tokyo Whether you are Japan-bound or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at Japanesepod101.com.
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Kana Chart http://www.joyo96.or......aChart.GIF
A GIF chart of Hiragana and Katakana.
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Kana Chart.com http://www.kanachart.com/
kanachart.com is a free site for learning japanese hiragana, katakana (kana) and kanji symbols. With animations and sounds for each character, remembering the complicated shapes is now much easier.
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Hiragana Chart http://www.sf.airnet......table.html
Each hiragana is shown with its Romanization, and it is linked to audio files.
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Katakana Chart http://www.sf.airnet......ble_k.html
Katakana are mainly used for imported words, and sometimes used for emphasis, so they are similar to italic letters in English.
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Java Program to Remember Kana http://www.sf.airnet......atest.html
Click the applet and you will see the description of the kana and other kana of the same consonant group. Click again to show another kana. Use the list box to change fonts.
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Basic Kana Chart http://www.jekai.org......00no00.htm
The kana table, (literally) the 50-sound table
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Diacritical Marks http://www.jekai.org......00no02.htm
Each kana in the 五十音図 (ごじゅうおんず) is made up of a consonant plus a vowel (except ん・ン). てんてん tenten (a diacritcal mark like a double quotation) can be added to kana with unvoiced consonants, making voiced kana. Examples follow.
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Katakana Chart http://link.lanic.ut......rt.pdf.pdf
Katakana chart with all the characters for easy reference.
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Sakura Exercises http://www.arts.mona....../home.html
This site is intended for use by beginning level students of Japanese at Berwick Campus of Monash University in Australia. However, it is also available for general use.
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Quick & Dirty Japanese http://www.csse.mona......adgtj.html
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese is a canonical classic of the Internet community. Posted years ago on the sci.lang.japan newsgroup, this guide appears in a multitude of pages written by folks such as myself, devoted to the learning of the Japanese language.
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Fujiko's Jouyou http://www.terra.es/......dex_en.htm
Page to learn and practice Kana and Kanji. Contains lists, tests and browsable pages of all Kana, Jouyou and Jinmeiyou Kanji.
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Dream Kana http://www.dreambreed.com/
DreamBreed.com makes the freeware Windows software DreamBirthday, Multidistribution and DreamKana.
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Real Kana http://www.realkana.com/
Practice Real Katakana and Hiragana.
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Japanese in 20 weeks http://www.japanesein20weeks.com
A beginner's guide to Japanese, following
the progress of a Japanese language student at university for 20 weeks.
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