Online "Learn Japanese" Resources

[reil0080]

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Online Dictionarys

Jim Breen's Dictionary
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html

Free Dictionary's Dictionary
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html

Jeffery's Dictionary
http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/dict


Hiragana & Katakana Rote Memorization Tools

Tsunami Channel's "Learn Kana" Script
http://tsunamichan.phpwebhosting.com/japanese/index.html

The Japanese Page's Learn Hiragana
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/readarticle.php?article_id=2

KanaCard's Flash Cards
http://www.kanacards.com/

Northoor's Flash Flash Cards
http://www.ichigo.se/kanaflash/kana.swf

Teach Yourself Japanese's Java Flash Cards - Might not work
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/%7Ets/japanese/javatest.html

Edgemu's Kana Script
http://pupp.edgeemu.com/kana.swf

Japanese Grammer

Griffin University's - Japanese Grammer
http://www.gu.edu.au/school/lal/japanesemain/JP_Res/JP_Res_control/grammar_frame.html

Nihongoguide's - Japanese Grammer
http://www.geocities.jp/nihongoguide/


Online Translation Web Apps

Excite
http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/


Caveats

So you want to learn Japanese...
http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/

[Spl1t]

http://japanese.about.com/blintroductory.htm

Great for an intro to japeneese. That's where I started.

[godfetish]

Here's another Japanese grammar and vocabulary site that my sensei introduced us to.

http://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/

While they offer actual classes if you are in the Tokyo area(Meguro), they offer a large amount of pdf's for self-training for free download on their site.

[Sajomir]

Here's a free English/Japanese word processor/dictionary/Kanji converter that my professor reccommended to our class. (to clarify, it's made with an English interface)

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html

I find it very useful for all those functions, though with the many overlapping sounds of different words, it can require some thumbing through results to find the exact thing you wanted.

[Mlcloud]

There are no Kanji reference sites here =(. So here's one I'm using right now, but god knows how useful it is since I've only recently begun.

http://www.kanjisite.com -> click start and go JLPT, and there are 4 levels of a study! Only includes the stuff necessary for the proficiency tests, as I've yet to find a site that includes a definition, pronunciations, and compounds of all the 2135 basic Kanji... (most of them only include a cursory definition, which I don't like)

Still, not a bad place to start and familiarize yourself.

things it lack: Stroke Order, radicals, blah blah blah. Obscure things.