Teaching Japanese through music
Teach Japanese using songs, music, lyrics and music videos. Specific songs or music for a particular teaching topic can be found by clicking on "Topic Search" below:
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Dance and songs
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Dance moves
Teach language through dance moves with simple songs. http://sensei.jpf-sydney.org/summer07/sensei_01.htm |
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Educational songs
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Aisatsu song 
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Aiueo no Uta |
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Counting things in Japanese SONG |
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Donna Iro ga suki Song
Practice colours and saying likes with this fun song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1WlHc3paY&feature=related
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Dates in Japanese SONG |
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Greetings SONG |
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Happy birthday in Japanese
Otanjoobi omedeto - song in Japanese with Romaji subtitles. 
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Hiragana SONG |
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Games
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Music game |
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Interesting music videos
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Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend (in Japanese) |
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Avril Lavigne - Hot |
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Celine Dion and Ito Yuna - Anata ga iru kagiri |
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Japanese national anthem |
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Jero - Enka |
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Love letter to Japan |
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My favourite things |
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Silent night (in Japanese) |
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Useful websites for teaching Japanese SONGS
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Children songs
http://www.mamalisa.com/world/japan.html List of traditional folk songs including koinobori, hinamatsuri, cherry blossum, sakura etc. Includes MP3, lyrics and sheet music. |
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How to teach Japanese through songs
http://www.japaneseteaching.org/projects/JLTNQ/songs/ A useful page describing how to teach Japanese through songs. |
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How to download songs from Youtube
www.dvdvideosoft.com This is a freeware for downloading Youtube files to your computer. Easy to use. without any watermarks. (Its a good way to show useful Youtube videos if they are banned at your school.) |
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HMV Music Store Japan
http://www.hmv.co.jp/?lang=ja What are the Top 10 J-pop songs? Check out HMV in Japan. |
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J Pop Lyrics
Alphabetically listed lyrics for a large range of JPop in romaji and English. http://www.animelyrics.com/jpop/ |
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LOTE songs
http://www.wodonga-ps.vic.edu.au/lote/LOTE%20webpage/Songs/songs.htm Songs with lyrics and music: Hiragana chart song, greetings song, counting song, I can sing a rainbow (Niji ga utaeru), Kobutanukitsuneko song. |
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Language songs http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/learnjapanesenumbers.htm You-Tube songs on numbers, when/where/who/what song, days of the week, months, hiragana and katakana songs, adjectives, weather, mary had a little lamb |
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New song each month
http://www.nhk.or.jp/kids/okaa/ New song each month includes lyrics and singing. Children games too. |
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Nursery rhyme lyrics
http://www.mahoroba.ne.jp/~gonbe007/hog/shouka/00_songs.html List of 100s of famous Japanese nursery rhyme lyrics (without MP3). |
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Songs by grammar
http://www3.u-toyama.ac.jp/niho/song/song_jplevel_e.html Lenghty list of songs listed by grammar point including lyrics, MP3 with singing or no singing |
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Tower Records Japan |
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