Japanese Language Studies

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Tokyo Art Beat

A bilingual art and design guide which offers event listings and reviews . The site is updated daily and lists more than 500 current & upcoming art events, at any moment. Site in English.
Format: Link
Types: Culture and Literature
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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EIGA

The biggest Japanese film review website, including reviews, interviews from directors and actors, upcoming movies, upcoming fan events etc.
Format: Link
Types: Culture and Literature
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Blog Ranking(Ameba)

Blog ranking chart, highlighting the best blogs on literature, music, film and more daily
Format: Link
Types: Culture and Literature
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Good Life With Books

Reviews and news on the literature scene; a trustworthy website run by Asahi, the major newspaper company in Japan.
Format: Link
Types: Culture and Literature
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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OJAD(Online Japanese Accent Dictionary)

OJAD is a handy Japanese accent-learning website. It gives correct Japanese pronunciation and marked accent on vocabularies that appear in the textbook Genki and in many other Japanese-learning textbooks. Charts can be printed out for teaching purposes.
Format: Link
Types: Dictionaries and Thesaurus
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Denshi Jisho
 

Denshi Jisho provides definitions, pronunciations and example sentances and allows users to search for kanji by radical or by drawing.
Format: Link
Types: Dictionaries and Thesaurus
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Japanese - Dictionary App (iPhone) FREE

This offline app contains more than 174,650 entries with example sentences and stroke-order animations, and allows users to create flashcard lists and study using SRS (Spaced Repetition System). This app is FREE right now on iTunes (formerly $7.00). Strongly recommended.
Format: Link
Types: Dictionaries and Thesaurus
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Linguee

Translator. dictionary, and context provider. This is also available as an app.
Format: Link
Types: Dictionaries and Thesaurus
Subjects: Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Easy Languages YouTube Channel

This YouTube channel features short videos interviewing native speakers on the street in a wide variety of languages with English subtitles.
Format: Link
Types: Film and YouTube Collections
Subjects: Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Quia

Hundreds of online activities and quizzes provided by the public domain but also by the Bard LC to review, practice and drill your grammar skills. To gain access to exercises related to Bard courses, contact the relevant Bard language department.
Format: Link
Types: Grammar and Vocabulary
Subjects: Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Anki - Flashcards

Anki is an online library of flashcard sets for countless topics, similar to Quizlet. You can also download the Anki app to study anywhere, anytime (you can also download sets from Quizlet into this app!).
Format: Link
Types: Grammar and Vocabulary, Software and Keyboards, Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Cooljugator(Japanese)

This website shows how to conjugate all Japanese verbs, in past, present, and future tenses. Cooljugator also has games and quizzes to practice grammar! The quizzes are for more advanced learners, and each question is graded and explanations are offered for incorrect answers. (The same is also available for more than twenty other languages.)
Format: Link
Types: Grammar and Vocabulary
Subjects: Japanese, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Quizlet Flashcards

A great website to create your own vocabulary lists, print flashcards, test yourself with the “testmaker”, combine lists to study a select number of words from the last semester, etc. . Can also be used for individual classes, and as an app on your mobile device
Search your language in the search bar and find hundreds of premade sets!
Format: Link
Types: Grammar and Vocabulary, Language Skills, Reading and Writing, Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Foreign Language Study Tips for Dyslexia

From the University of Michigan, this webpage lists many easy-to-implement study strategies for students with dyslexia learning a foreign language. 
Format: Link
Types: Language Skills
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Quizlet Flashcards

A great website to create your own vocabulary lists, print flashcards, test yourself with the “testmaker”, combine lists to study a select number of words from the last semester, etc. . Can also be used for individual classes, and as an app on your mobile device
Search your language in the search bar and find hundreds of premade sets!
Format: Link
Types: Grammar and Vocabulary, Language Skills, Reading and Writing, Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)
 

Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) under joint organization of the Japan Foundation and Japan Educational Exchanges and Services (previously Association of International Education, Japan) started in 1984 as a test to measure and certify the Japanese-language proficiency of those whose native language is not Japanese. In the first year the JLPT was conducted in 15 countries, and approximately 7,000 examinees took the test. Since then, the JLPT has become the largest Japanese-language test in the world, with approximately 610,000 examinees in 62 countries and areas worldwide in 2011. This success is entirely due to the support and cooperation of all involved. Find out what level you are or need to have.
Format: Link
Types: Placement Tests and Practice Exams
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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ART IT

A visually oriented, all bilingual (Japanese and English) quarterly magazine introducing the latest trends in the contemporary art scenes of Japan and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region.
Format: Podcasts
Types: Podcasts: Art and Art History
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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The Gift of the Magi - O Henry

This is a free online recording of O Henry's classic short story translated into Japanese. (25 min) There is also a transcription of the story that you can read as you listen.
 
Format: Podcasts
Types: Podcasts: Books and Reviews
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Tofugu Podcast

Tofugu is one of the most famous Japanese resources out there. Originally a blog about Japanese culture and language, Tofugu has expanded over the years to place a greater focus on language education.
Format: Podcasts
Types: Podcasts: Culture and Contemporary Voices
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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ピートのふしぎなガレージ

This podcast is a radio show on Tokyo FM, sponsored by Mitsubishi Motors. Due to the sponsorship, they tend to talk quite a bit about outdoor activities… because in Japan a car is pretty much required for those. Still, there is quite a variety of episodes.
Each episode features an expert in a specific field and includes an interview.
Format: Podcasts
Types: Podcasts: Culture and Contemporary Voices
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: B1, C1

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Oricon

Japanese music industry standard albums popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Charts are updated every Sunday.
Format: Podcasts
Types: Podcasts: Culture and Contemporary Voices, Podcasts: Music and Performance
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Lyrik Line

This website allows you to read and listen to poems from a huge selection of languages (select from English, German, French, Slovenian, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, or Chinese!) and countries read by their authors. It also provides written translations in several languages depending on the poem. An excellent resource for all language learners to improve listening and reading skills.
 
Format: Podcasts
Types: Podcasts: Literature and Poetry
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Oricon

Japanese music industry standard albums popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Charts are updated every Sunday.
Format: Podcasts
Types: Podcasts: Culture and Contemporary Voices, Podcasts: Music and Performance
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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NHK news web easy

News web easy is a easily understandable news website for elementary, middle school students and foreigners who are studying Japanese. Difficult kanji will be marked with katakana to help readers to read. The news is also reported in a relatively low speed.
Format: Podcasts
Types: Podcasts: Politics and News
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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News In Slow Japanese

This website contains short news stories on various topics at both slow and regular speeds, accompanied by text and vocabulary lists.
Format: Podcasts
Types: Podcasts: Politics and News
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1

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Typing Practice

Practice typing hiragana, katakana and kanji, including some sentence-level practice and dictation.
Format: Link
Types: Reading and Writing
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1

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Japanese Practice Game

Japanese keyboard practice game to learn Hiragana and Katakana
Format: Link
Types: Reading and Writing
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Pop Jisyo

Webreader & Dictionary
Enter a japanese website url or text block into this site and it will provide readings and translations of individual words and characters when moused over.
Format: Link
Types: Reading and Writing
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Quizlet Flashcards

A great website to create your own vocabulary lists, print flashcards, test yourself with the “testmaker”, combine lists to study a select number of words from the last semester, etc. . Can also be used for individual classes, and as an app on your mobile device
Search your language in the search bar and find hundreds of premade sets!
Format: Link
Types: Grammar and Vocabulary, Language Skills, Reading and Writing, Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Anki - Flashcards

Anki is an online library of flashcard sets for countless topics, similar to Quizlet. You can also download the Anki app to study anywhere, anytime (you can also download sets from Quizlet into this app!).
Format: Link
Types: Grammar and Vocabulary, Software and Keyboards, Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Text to Speech(Japanese)

 A natural sounding text-to-speech program with adjustable speed. Find an online text, copy and paste on to the website – open a word document – listen and Type!
Format: Link
Types: Speaking and Writing
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1

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Dyslexia Accomodations Checklist

This webpage shows a checklist of easy ways teachers and tutors can make accomodations for dyslexic students of foreign languages. 
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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Teaching Languages to Blind and Visually Impaired Students

Languages don't need to be visual! Include these best practices in your language programs to ensure access to blind or visually impaired students.
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Foreign Language Classes (National Deaf Center)

From the University of Texas at Austin, the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes has assembled resources and recommendations for hard-of-hearing and deaf students interested in pursuing a foreign language. They also highlight the story of Tory, a deaf American student who studied Arabic to pursue archeology. 
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Studying a foreign language with hearing loss

This article shares the personal experience of a profoundly deaf person who studied German, and her recommendations and research on accomodations and accesibility in language learning classes. 
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Learning Disabilities and Foreign Language Learning

This webpage outlines the history of learning disabilities and foreign languages as well as examining research for best practices in the classroom. 
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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At-Risk Students and Language Learning - (International Dyslexia Association)

This article explores how, with appropriate instruction, most students can experience success learning a foreign language regardless of any learning disability. It outlines the responsibilities of the student and the teacher to ensure student success.
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Anki - Flashcards

Anki is an online library of flashcard sets for countless topics, similar to Quizlet. You can also download the Anki app to study anywhere, anytime (you can also download sets from Quizlet into this app!).
Format: Link
Types: Grammar and Vocabulary, Software and Keyboards, Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1

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毎日まんがニュース

This is a website that you can learn Japanese from Manga. One of the categories of this website ”コトバの違い(kotoba no tigai)” explains difference of Japanese falsely similar words with illustration.
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Tumblr

Really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it. Stories, photos, GIFs, TV shows, links, quips, dumb jokes, smart jokes, Spotify tracks, mp3s, videos, fashion, art, deep stuff. Tumblr is 229 million different blogs, filled with literally whatever.
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Tourbuilder(Japanese)

Tour Builder is a tool to tell a story. It is new way to show people the places you've visited (literally, virtually or in a text) and the experiences you had along the way using Google Earth. It lets you pick the locations right on the map, add in photos, text, and video, and then share your creation.
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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The Worksheet Builder

Create your own fill-in-the blank worksheets quickly - this webpage has a similar tool
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Line

LINE is a freeware app for instant communications on electronic devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, and personal computers. Line users exchange texts, images, video and audio, and conduct free VoIP conversations and video conferences.
Format: Link
Types: Teaching and Tutoring
Subject: Japanese
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classifications: A1, B1, C1

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Quizlet Flashcards

A great website to create your own vocabulary lists, print flashcards, test yourself with the “testmaker”, combine lists to study a select number of words from the last semester, etc. . Can also be used for individual classes, and as an app on your mobile device
Search your language in the search bar and find hundreds of premade sets!
Format: Link
Types: Grammar and Vocabulary, Language Skills, Reading and Writing, Teaching and Tutoring
Subjects: Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish
Institute: Bard Undergraduate
Classification: A1