LibGuides: Japanese Language Guide: Online


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Japanese Podcasts

NHK Japanese Podcast Lessons
NHK, or Japan Broadcasting Corporation, offers free podcast lessons with MP3 downloads and text versions of all the lessons. New broadcasts are updated on the website periodically.

Japanese Language Proficiency Test
The Japan Foundation and the Japan Educational Exchanges and Services administer this language proficiency exam twice a year in major cities domestically and abroad. Proficiency levels range from N5 to N1, the lowest and highest levels respectively.

Rikai-chan
Pop-up dictionary extension for Firefox. Does bilingual lookup in Japanese-English, -Dutch, -French, -German and -Russian.
Perapera-kun
Pop-up dictionary extension for Firefox and Chrome. Does bilingual look up for Japanese-English, -French and -German.
Reading Tutor
Copy and paste text to get a vocabulary glossary for your reading. Does bilingual lookup for Japanese-English, -German, -Dutch, and -Slovenian, and -Spanish. Can also analyze text for vocabulary and kanji level (for JLPT) and structure.
Denshi Jisho
Japanese-English dictionary. Kanji can be looked up by stroke order or radicals. Sample sentences included.
Text gloss
Copy and paste text or URL to get a translation for your reading.
Tangorin
Tangorin is a free online English ⇆ Japanese dictionary.

For more language software resources available at the LRC, click here.

Tae Kim's Japanese Guide to Learning Japanese
A free and comprehensive guide to Japanese grammar. Can be used either as a supplement to classroom studies or a basis for individual study.
Nihongo Dekimasu!
Free Japanese study materials from the Japan Foundation. Each video episode includes text versions of the skits, short vocabulary quizzes, featured expressions, and more video content explaining the cultural interactions of an episode.
Integrated Links
This webpage contains lots of online resources links for Japanese studies as well as Chinese studies, Korea studies and other East Asia studies.

Tofugu
An online website that provides detailed sources for Japanese learners of all levels. The website breaks down recommendations by Japanese language level, so whether you’re starting from zero or looking for a new advanced Japanese textbook, this list should help you out.
Japanese 101
Japanese 101 is a site with resources for several languages. Japanese 101 has a nice array of vocabulary words as well as some nifty links to Japanese television and some related sites.

When we find great language resources online, we bookmark them using Diigo.com (a social bookmarking site). You can join our "MHC Languages" group on Diigo to contribute bookmarks, too. Learn more about social bookmarking with Diigo.

Here is a feed of the most recent bookmarks in our MHC Languages group that were tagged "Japanese."