Learn Japanese - Japanese Language Resources

• Learn Japanese - get a Free 6-Day Japanese Language Course of selected audio tracks, lessons, and activities.  The 6-Day Japanese Course includes Japanese conversations in real-life situations, audio tracks of dialogues and conversations.
   
• Japanese-Online.com provides a free learning service to people who wish to study the Japanese language online.
   
• The Japanese Writing Tutor is where you can practice writing Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji.
  • Katakana Writing Tutor
  • Hiragana Writing Tutor
  • Kanji Writing Tutor
     
• LanguageGuide.org - Japanese (日本語Nihongo)
   
• THE Kanji Study Guide is based on the work of James Heisig's Remembering The Kanji
   
• Charles Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials are free-to-use online materials that have been developed to help people study Japanese.
  • Charles Kelly's Select List of Japanese Language Study Sites
     
• Introduction to the Japanese Language from Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection
  • Japanese Phrasebook from Wikitravel.
  • Wikitravel Japanese Phrase List
  • Wikipedia in Japanese
     
• NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) is Japan's only public broadcaster (in Japanese).
  • English Version
  • Radio Japan Online
  • Basic Japanese for You
    This website requires Real Player to listen to the streaming audio lessons.
     
• NTV Nippon Television Network Corporation in Japanese.
  • English
     
• CNN (Cable News Network) in Japanese.
   
• Microsoft.com Japan
   
• Yahoo! Japan - search the web in Japanese.
   
• Netscape Japanese
   
• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server
  This server is intended for people who have studied some Japanese and who can read at least kana.
   
• Jeffrey Friedl's Japanese-English Dictionary Server
   
• Japanese Kanji Learning: Short-Cuts to Rapid Mastery (Part 1)
  What? Kanji can be learned quickly? This seems an impossible dream to many students of Japanese who come from a non-kanji language culture. Even hiragana and katakana seem impossibly hard to the average beginner, so remembering kanji, with all their intricate strokes and multiple readings, can appear to be beyond the abilities of the human mind.
   
• Japanese Kanji Learning: Short-Cuts to Rapid Mastery (Part 2)
  In Japanese Kanji Learning: Short-Cuts to Rapid Mastery Part 1, we looked at mnemonic methods devised by James Heisig and Kenneth Henshall to speed-up kanji acquisition. We saw how their techniques activate the imagination by assigning different meanings individual elements of each kanji.
   
• Don't Take The Romaji Short-Cut When Learning Japanese
  This is an issue many Japanese learners come up against, particularly if they live outside Japan. After all, If you are not in the country, it seems difficult to justify the huge amount of time that learning Japanese characters seems to require.
   
• Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
  Purdue University
  • Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction
  • Photo Gallery for Japanese Language Instruction
    You can freely use the photographs without any fee as long as they are used for non-profit educational purposes.