Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing websites
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LISTENING
Listening http://www.tokorozawa-stm.ed.jp/d_base/nihongo/html/japanese.html
Listen and watch short colourful roleplays includes introductions, greetings, using Japanese toilets, body, phoning school and many many more!
Say what I type http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
Type in anything and the Japanese character will say what you have written.
Classic Japanese stories http://eloise.cocolog-nifty.com/rodoku/index_audio_only/index.html
Classic Japanese stories read aloud by native Japanese speakers including music. Downloadable MP3.
READING
Essays http://www.mori7.com/okap/index.php?p=517986
Example essays written by Japanese primary and junior-high school students.
Furigana http://www.hiragana.jp/en/
Add furigana to websites
Interactive readers http://studio.qantm.com.au/onlinelanguageresources/main.htm
Interactive units on: getting around, famous places, famous Japanese folktales, preparing for school, shopping, telephone messages, ordering at a restaurant, weather, seasons, food, body and parts, my day, my room, my family etc etc.
Manga strips http://www.ak.cradle.titech.ac.jp/Rise/index.htm
Manga with audio
Sazaesan Profiles http://www.sazaesanitiba.com/
Profiles of characters and family tree
Stories http://www.e-hon.jp/demo1/index1.htm
E-book old tales in Japanese
Ehon http://www.ohanashiehon.com/
Colourful Japanese online e-books.
SPEAKING
Folktale skits http://jpplays.jpf-sydney.org/
Variety of Japanese plays and skits. Some are based on folk tales, others on various situations, such as being in a classroom or a restaurant. Plays are mostly in hiragana, and include cultural notes.
WRITING
Hiragana practice http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/hiragana.html
Put hiragana in correct alphabetical order
Hiragana song and practice
http://www.moshihola.org/mm/mm_student_activities/mm_activities.html
Hiragana song, kana puzzles, kana stroke order,
Kana recall activity http://www.realkana.com/
Type in the English for the Kana
Kana recall activity http://www.msu.edu/%7Elakejess/Kana_Page.html?bg=1
Type in the English for the Kana
Kana quizes http://www.manythings.org/japanese/kana/
Tests for practising hiragana and katakana
Katakana practice http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/katakana.html
Put katakana in correct alphabetical order
Kanji writing http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kanji/
See stroke order video and pratice reading on and kun yomis.
Kanji game http://www.nhk.or.jp/school/kanji/
Practice reading kanji game
Kanji crossword
http://www.waparound-your-car.de/japanesecrosswords.html#Kanji%20Crossword%20Puzzles
Various crosswords using only Kanji
Keyboarding Hiragana
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/subjects/japanese/sakura/exercises.html
practice typing hiragana with various typing exercises
Names translator http://www.japanesetranslator.co.uk/your-name-in-japanese/
Find your name in Japanese