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OJAD is an online Japanese accent database for learners and teachers of Japanese.  The goal of this tool is to enhance the awareness and understanding of the Japanese pitch accent with a suite of four features.   The words in the dictionary encompass over 9000 nouns and 3500 declinable words including verbs, i-adjectives, and na-adjectives, making it possible to search approximately 42,300 conjugations of words.  What's more, each conjugated form given in the dictionary is accompanied by both male and female audio.  This suite provides three other useful tools in addition to word search.  With Verb-Suffix Search, you can look up the accent type for a verb followed by a suffix.  With Text-Search, you can look up the accent types for words in an excerpt of text.  Lastly, with Suzuki-kun, you can predict and display the pitch contour for an excerpt of text.  We hope that you will be able to make use of these tools in your future language lessons or language studies.

Travel site available in English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Indonesian. What makes this interesting for Japanese learners is the option to choose an "Easy Japanese" version.

Video lessons intended for Japanese high schools students. Subjects include Japanese, Japanese history, math, geography, business, and many more.

Cultural Interviews with Japanese-Speaking Executives is a compilation of brief video clips in which Japanese and Japanese-speaking executives discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans. The objective of the interviews is three-fold: First, provide practical cultural information about business topics. The opinions represent those of real people. At times they are even contradictory, but they are designed to be a catalyst for discussion, not a definitive answer about some stereotype. Second, the interviews provide vocabulary in areas within a professional setting. The interviews present diverse vocabulary within the context of each individual's comments. Third, these materials provide non-native speakers of Japanese with multiple examples of natural speech, illustrating the way that speakers really talk.

Welcome to the Japanese Online Self-Help Utility, or JOSHU for short. In Japanese, JOSHU literally means "assistant", or "tutor", which is what this website attempts to do to anyone interested in learning the Japanese language. Practice katakana, hiragana, kanji, counting, vocabulary, and learn about Japanese culture.

Tutorial on how to type in Japanese.

Collection of online resources for learning Japanese from the Japan Foundation. Includes online courses in basic Japanese, learning hiragana and katakana scripts, discussion forums, and games.

J-CAT Japanese Language Test automatically evaluates the proficiency of the Japanese language on the computer.

This website allows even novice learners of Japanese to explore special interests in Japanese language and culture, through videos, articles, and other supports around chosen topics.

Enter a Chinese word and it will be converted to Japanese katakana. Useful for Japanese teachers who need to provide katakana for students' names.

Enter a name in English to get the Japanese katakana equivalent. Useful for Japanese teachers who need to assign katakana to students' names.

Japanese-Japanese dictionary with definitions that are easy to understand.

Japanese-Japanese dictionary that aggregates various dictionaries. 朝日新聞、朝日新聞出版、講談社、小学館などの辞書から、 用語を一度に検索できるサービスです。

Computer Assisted Autonomous Japanese language learning, Assessment and Testing A list of tools useful for Japanese teachers, especially for text analysis and assessment.

Japanese-Japanese thesaurus

Enter texts in Japanese. Interface allows easy access to readings and meanings of words.

Video tutorials on Japanese pronunciation, including intonation. Quizzes are not accessible without a UBC account.

Easily searchable Japanese grammar explanations with many examples, including translations. Includes JLPT levels and a grammar game.

Basic Japanese lessons, including audio and text support. 

Collection of Japanese children's stories in Japanese with line by line English translations and explanation of vocab and grammar points.