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Learn Hiragana more quickly using my Memory
Cheats.
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Japanese
for the Memoralogically Challenged some insights and advice from a
new student, me.
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 Tad
Perry's "Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese" in HTML,
or ZIPped, and in Word
format.
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Japanese
Radio on the Net Listen to spoken Japanes in both song and speech using
either streaming audio, or mp3. I've compiled a short list of sites
that will allow you to familirize yourself with spoken Japanese.
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Randy
Johnson's "Favorite Getaways in Rural Japan"
Randy talks about
how the Japanese developed a written language, explaining some of the reasons
that Japanese is considered by some to be the hardest language in
the world to learn. "I am not
going to try and teach you to speak Japanese, but this section attempts
to give the reader an appreciation for the nature and history of the written
and spoken Japanese language."
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The Japanese Tutor
An EXCELLENT free Japanese resource by David Reed and Yoko
Nishimura. Has both written and spoken demonstrations of the basic
46 characters of both Hiragana and Katakana.
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The
Japanese Tutor Another location for the above site.
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Learn Japanese on the Internet
Brian Rennells, a student at Michigan State University has some neat hiragana
and katakana study pages.
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LEARN JAPANESE.
Please check this page first if you don't know Japanese Alphabet. This
page is showing HIRAGANA and KATAKANA except KANJI.
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Japanese "The
Japanese script is arguably the most complex script in use today. It is
actually a combination of three different..."
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Kana for Anime Fans
"I can't teach you Japanese, no matter how much I would like to..."
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Japanese
Language: The Japanese Writing System
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About
Japanese writing... Learning Japanese Language and Culture Kazumi
Ohira
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TobiNeko: Computing
Japanese
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Arquimedes Home
Page - A Little about Kanji About Kanji Origin Kanji writing is very
old - the oldest documents known are from approximately 1,500 B.C. It has
gone under some changes...
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Japanese Writing
This page is meant to help students of Japanese practice their writing
skills
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Japanese Online Offers DemoWare
(KanjiKit, see below for direct link) for using Japanese in Western/English
Windows, Online Japanese English
Dictionary, Free Online Japanese
Lessons, and a Japanese
Forum / Message Board tell others about your experiences in Japan or
speaking Japanese, find PenPals or swap language lessons. Mainly,
it will serve as a way for all the students of Japanese Online to share
ideas with each other. A service of Pacific Software.
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NIHONGO
is a moderated digest of messages collected for redistribution. Nihongo
is devoted to discussions of the Japanese language, computers and
Japanese, and Japanese culture as it relates to language. Announcements
for Japanese programs, summer intensives, teaching positions, conferences,
and commercial postings that might be of interest to those teaching or
learning Japanese are welcome.
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Japanese Links
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JAPAN in NORWAY (Insula
Glacialis) JAPAN! -The island surrounding Miyakonojo your guide to
the spirit of Japan! From the Spiritual life of Modern-day Japan.
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Everyday life,
Culture and Language A Practical Guide to Working as a Scientist in
Japan by Robert W. Ridge.
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http://mac122.icu.ac.jp/ Robert
W. Ridges' home page.
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Otake Japanese Calligraphy
Japanese Calligraphy
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Jeffrey's Japanese
English Dictionary An extremely interesting use of the WWW technology,
providing a Web based interface to an online English/Japanese, Japanese/English
dictionary. The system allows the user to specify customized queries to
a database of over 6,000 Kanji characters.
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East Asian Libraries Cooperative
WWW The project is exploring the possibilities of using the Web to
enhance remote access to research materials (both print and electronic)
on East Asia and promote efficiencies in the management of East Asian research
collections through resource sharing.
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ISOFT - Home of
Japanese Software This site provides a wealth of information for PC
users using Japanese. Included are a Q&A
section, descriptions of software which configures
your PC to use Japanese and more.
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Japanese News
and Media on the Web List of online Japanese news and other media maintained
here at MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures Department.
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Reading
the Web in Japanese A quick introduction to reading the Web in Japanese
for various types of computers, with links to more detailed information
Japanese resources at MIT: Quiz
Review Materials, Hiragana,
Katakana and Kanji Study Aids, MIT_Japanese_IV_Spring,_1998
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Japanorama - Japan Index to the
World Wide Web. "Everything Japanese on the World Wide Web
If it's there, it's here."
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Japanorama - Japanese
Culture
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Jim's Japanese
Page Information on Japanese Computing and lots of useful links
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Jeffrey's Japanese<->English
Dictionary Server
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Chiron's Survival
Japanese Course
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This is The Origin of KataKana
Mastering Japanese is Now Easy! (In months, not years!) Teachers
Should Not Teach, Students Should Not Learn Fake Japanese!
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International Christian University, Mitaka
Tokyo Japan has an intensive J language course every summer vacation.
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Japan Language and Culture Network
(JP NET) clearinghouse for tools, services and information for Japanese
Language and Culture educators and students.
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Yahoo! Social
Science: Linguistics and Human Languages: Languages: Specific Languages:
Japanese
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KanjiKit97
- a program to read and write web pages in Japanese. DemoWare available.
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Program for Learning Japanese
Metaphor. This is a program for learners of all proficiency levels,
especially beginners. The program teaches the multiple senses of
a set of Japanese verbs through guided instruction. Information on how
to view Japanese text on the Web is also available. [Shift-JIS]
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Japanese Language Learning Resources
by the Center for the Advancement
of Language Learning - C.A.L.L. - CALL was established as part
of the FY92 Foreign Language Initiative sponsored by the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) to improve quality and cost effectiveness
in Intelligence Community foreign language teaching and testing.
CALL is administratively supported by the Office of Training and Education
of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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Tommy of Escondido's page for font
sites FTP info & annotated Links.
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A True Type Font from
Union Way.
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Using Japanese language
on your computer
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Using Japanese with a PC.
Reference to commercial products, freeware, shareware, demo versions.
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Australia's Monash University Japanese language ftp
archive. An HTML description
of the files they have.
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Yamada Language Center
Guide to Japanese.
Has Fonts
(Mostly Mac stuff), links, Japanese News
Groups and Mailing
Lists. And a listing of alternative font
collections. Run by the University
of Oregon.
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Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font Archive - Japanese "Kanji"
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Mike Wright's Languages
and Linguistics Page
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Yomiuri On-Line Daily Japanese Newspaper. Japanese
Edition. English
Edition.
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FTP site for Walnut Creek
CDROM
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The students' site of Politecnico
di Torino in Italy. They have several directories in which contain
Japanese resources. Among them, PC
Word processors, docs
, fonts,
and more. This is available both by WWW
and FTP. Warning:
They don't have many resources, 40 is the maximum number of anonymous users
users that they can at any one time, and probably many of those should
be the students. When I looked at their site, downloading from both
FTP and WWW (I find FTP usually faster) was VERY SLOW! (FTP downloads
through a 56k modem on the order of .33KB/s) If you find this
is the case you should think about quitting your download, giving the students
access, and trying again at a different, less busy, time.
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Learn Japanese free!
by Hauk. 10 Lessons.
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Shodouka
Launchpad a free net service. View Japanese Characters
without special software or fonts! Advantages:
Works NOW. No software, no installation no configuration. Disadvantages:
SLOW! Works only with Web based documents accessible through a URL.
Shodouka Launchad works by converting all the Japanese characters into
graphics. Be patient, pages can be extremely slow, and updating a
page does not appear possible.
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Purdue University's Reviews
of Japanese CALL Software (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) for the
Macintosh.
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Japanese-related Projects
at Purdue University.
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E-tomo for Windows: a Japanese e-mail
utility (Freeware)
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A Japanese True
Type Font from Twinbridge Software Corporation.
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Mview 4.0 A program
by Albert Chong that allows you to display Japanese characters in any version
of Windows (3.1/3.11/95/98/NT). It's prone to crash, but it's not
fatal. The only thing is that you need to do is quit the program
that caused it to crash (usually Netscape displaying some complex page)
and Mview before starting them both again. It will display Japanese
in ANY windows program, and correctly displays window titles in Japanese.
(Something adding a True Type Font does NOT accomplish, unless you change
your font selection in Properties/Appearance for your desktop). No installation,
to use it, just run it. ---Update---
I just discovered Albert's
web page, and his MView
web page, and also found 2 email addresses for him LuckyChong@poboxes.com
and Albert_Chong@hotmail.com. Apparently his Mview is up to version
4.58. You can also find this program on shareware.com.
Here is a search
for it. Also, Mview apparently allows
printing of Japanese characters without any problem.
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MSGOTHIC
a True type Japanese font supposedly from Microsoft. I ZIPped it
with the little email that came along with it. To use it, do the
following: After unZIPping it: run the executable file, then in Netscape
select Edit-Preferences from the menu. Select Appearance-Fonts
from the Category area in the dialog box. Choose Japanese encoding.
Select the font MSGOTHIC for both variable and fixed widths. Click
on OK. Then select View-Encoding-Japanese (Auto-Detect).
You should be able to display Japanese in Netscape now! The only drawback
is that the window titles still appear in garbage. You need a program
like Mview for that. You may find that some pages and/or email
messages will now inadvertently show Japanese Characters, this is not fatal
or hard to change. Simply select View-Encoding-Western, and that's
it! The major problem with MSGOTHIC is that it doesn't seem to like
my printer very well..
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JText
a Japanese Wordprocesser for Windows
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