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• Manga School Of Japanese Learn Japanese the easy way, learn it the Manga way. Free online courses and tutorials to help you learn Nihongo as quickly as possible
  
• Easy Web Japanese Basic Japanese Conversation Lessons on the Internet. A free, easy, and convenient way to learn Japanese.
  
  
• Alessandro's Home Page Free lessons of Japanese language oriented to manga translations.
  
• 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 to Speak Japanese Language Learning Japanese language courses and learning aids. Learn how to understand and speak with lessons, Japanese music, and translators. Free Japanese dictionary. (Commercial site)
  
• Japanese-Online - Free Japanese Lessons on the Internet Free Japanese Language Lessons and Translated Math Story Problems from Japan's Jr. High Math Placement Tests
  
• Stephan's Virtual University provides free Japanese lessons for beginners and advanced students. Provides also free Maths and Computer Science lessons and a great collection of Gif
  
• Sean's Spot Among other things, reviews of books for the learner of Japanese
  
• YesJapan.com - Interactive Online Japanese Lessons Learn to Speak, Read and Write Japanese on the Internet.
  
• Learn Japanese Fast Brain-compatible audiocassette programs speed up the learning of Japanese by the English learner or English by the Japanese learner.
  
• Joyo 96 - Understanding Written Japanese Joyo 96 is an on-line Japanese language learning center. A public distance learning and book referral service, that teaches written Japanese language on-line. The Japanese Kanji are presented in the Japanese Ministry of Education's Grade order, and covers Kanji etymology, Kanji stroke order for Japanese calligraphy, on-kun (Chinese - Japanese) readings and example Japanese compounds. Joyo 96 also teaches a full course on Japanese Katakana and Hiragana, containing a web version of Reading Japanese.
  
• Winghawk's Japanese Language Resources Resources for Japanese grammar, vocabulary, and characters (Hiragana/Katakana).
  
• Japanese at LanguageTapes.com The world famous Pimsleur Audio Cassette Language Courses for Japanese at great prices for secure online purchase.
  
• Japanese words: count to ten Counting in another language doesn't need to be difficult. There are many tips and tricks to help make it easier. To learn the Japanese numbers from 1-99, read on!
  
• WannaLearn.com: Japanese A collection of free, high-quality online tutorials, lessons, guides and instructionally oriented Websites that help you learn Japanese.
  
• Mambo's Club A site for people who learn Japanese or English as their second language. Contains an international chat room and BBS.
  
• Katakana Japanese Katakana Japanese Aims at worldwide Japanese. You can download "Katakana Japanese Editor" from this site. This site use dynamic font.
  
• Reading Japanese Learn to read hiragana, katakana and kanji.
  
• Keiko Japanese Tutorials
  
• AJALT Home Page Association for Japanese-Language Teaching - English language page of a group devoted to improving the formal instruction of Japanese.
  
• LanguageTalk Japanese Allows you to convert typed romaji to either katakana or hiragana. The resulting converted message has a distinct URL which can then be sent to another person to receive a message in Japanese.
  
• Pera Pera Penguin's 5-minute Japanese Class by Hitomi Hirayama
  
• Find Japanese Tutorials A collection of Japanese tutorials from the internet.
  
• Nihongo o Narau - Learn Japanese A free and easy way to learn Japanese online. Updated frequently, so there's always something new.
  
• Intensive Japanese - Cornell University Summer and Year. Fellowships Available.
  
• Reiko-chan's Japanese for Anime-Lovers Web based lessons on Japanese, with links to lessons on the writing systems.
  
• Basic Japanese Lessons Japanese grammar written in English and Italian (intended for manga translation).
  
• Nihongoshoho - Elementary Japanese: Vocabulary / Dictionary English translations of words from the 34 lessons of the Japanese learners book "Nihongoshoho"; contains a word and several kanji indexes.
  
• Japanese 1st Grade Kanji Map The entire Japanese Ministry of Education's Grade 1st grade Kanji are accessed from this page, and covers Kanji etymology, Kanji stroke order (diagrams and movies) for Japanese calligraphy, on-kun (Chinese - Japanese) readings, example Japanese compounds, etc.. Joyo 96 also teaches a full course on Japanese Katakana and Hiragana, containing a web version of READING JAPANESE
  
• Teach Yourself Japanese Online language Lessons - has sounds if you have Sound Machine - covers the Kana, Hiragana and Katakana, and touches some issues of grammar.
  
• Jim Breen's Japanese Page Home of the free EDICT Japanese-English dictionary. Also links to other sites about Japanese.
  
• Vashon's Japanese Page Beginner and Intermediate Japanese resources.
  
• Katakana - Lesson 1 - Table of Contents This page contains a web version of the Katakana lessons found in READING JAPANESE, and provides a complete course on mastering the Katakana. This course is a sub-division of the Joyo 96 written Japanese learning center and book referral service, FREE to the public.
  
• Learning Japanese Provide you Japanese courses from primary to advances level. It also includes Japanese passages, readings, stories and songs. (Uses strange romanized spelling).
  
• Nihongo o Narau - Learn Japanese This is a free, easy way to learn Japanese online. Covers sentence structure and has lots of vocabulary.
  
• Open Japan An online tool that lets you view Japanese websites with any graphical browser.
  
• Jlearner - Japanese lessons and drills Basic japanese language lessons, focussing on interactive drills and tests.
  
• Kanji Flashcards and Kanji-of-the-Day Kanji-Ya Kanji Flashcards contain comprehensive information on 300 Kanji characters while the Kanji-of-the-Day tests your Kanji knowledge.
  
• Japanese Language Exercises, tips and lessons to help you learn to speak and write Japanese. Practice phonetics, calligraphy and grammar, and download dictionaries. From About.com.
  
• Web Japanese Today's Kanji, daily and monthly columns for students of the Japanese language.
  
• Japanese Tutorials at Knowledge Hound Links to free online Japanese lessons, including basic Japanese for travelers, conversational Japanese and reading & writing Hiragana, Katagana & Kanji.
  
• Free Light Japanese With "Free Light Japanese" you can learn Japanese writing system (Hiragana, Katakana and 1945 Jouyou Kanji), vocabulary and pronunciation by using multimedia techniques.
  
• Introductory Japanese Supplimentary Website for the 1st year Japanese Textbook "Nakama". The site is designed to help students who are using this textbook to review words and expressions in each chapter.
  
• The Kanji SITE A detailed guide to hundreds of kanji, with step-by-step guides, random testing, a search function and other features. Especially useful for studying kanji for the JLPT. Works even for non-Japanese-capable machines.
  
• The Japanese Tutor Movies to show you how to write each character and audio of native speakers. Seven thousand pages, 2,500 stroke-order movies and 17,000 audio files.
  
• Japanese Translation/Dictionary/Spelling Checker Software Extensive list of available software.