Education Station

JAPANESE

General Language Resources:

Learning Japanese. Where do I begin? - For the true beginner. Information on the scripts, pronunciation, and Japanese culture.

StudyJapanese.org - "lessons, dictionary, flash card glossary exercises as well as a Japanese grammar section"


Visualizing Japanese Grammar - "66 Flash animations of various grammatical structures in Japanese and 12 downloadable appendices"

LiveMocha - A social site that connects you with native speakers and fellow learners of an array of different languages. They have hours of free courses, which are graded by native speakers who also use the site for language learning purposes. Part of the coursework requires you to do pronunciation drills, so you will need a microphone.

JapaneseOnline.com -
Beginner resources (requires registration to their site, which is free). They also have printable practice sheets for Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.


English-Japanese Dictionary - It is what it is. :)

Japanese Lessons on iTunes - Someone else fashioned this list of free iTunes lessons. You will need the iTunes client to be able to download them.

Writing/Reading Resources:

50 Renshuu - A printable PDF file for practice in writing Japanese lettering. Includes stroke order information. Hiragana is on the left and Katakana is on the right.

Hiragana:

Hiragana Stroke Order - Video files showing you how to write Hiragana properly.

Usagi's Hiragana Drag-n-Drop Practice - A "game" in which you match the Hiragana character with it's Romanization.

Katakana:

Katakana Stroke Order - Video files showing you how to write Katakana properly.

Kanji: