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Shows a cross-section diagram of the speech organs, and allows you to use buttons to change voicing, nasality, lip position, and tongue position, showing the IPA character for the resulting sound.

Series of 5 courses on 1220 vocabulary words important for reading newspapers and other media in China. Includes options for studying with traditional, simplified or Pinyin characters.

Tangorin is a free online Japanese dictionary and learning tool that combines basic Words and Kanji search with Example Sentences. It features a search interface that works by selecting multiple frequently appearing character elements - the Multi-Radical Words and Multi-Radical Kanji search. It's the easiest and fastest way to find complex words without the need to read or understand the kanji.

Kanji alive is a free, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners to read and write kanji. It is cross-platform and will run in any browser that supports Adobe Flash and Apple Quicktime. Please Note: The current version of Kanji alive available on this site is an initial beta or pilot version. We are making it available now in order to solicit comments and suggestions from our users. It is not a dictionary: only searches for individual kanji, not words. Shows character in font and animation of handwriting, on/kunyomi, audio clips & translations of associated compound words, radicals, stroke count and breakdown, and grade level/reference numbers for kanji lists.

A book with a difference, #movemeon is a collection of 140-character pearls of wisdom from educators using the social networking service, Twitter. From behaviour management to interaction with colleagues, you will find practical advice and ideas contributed by classroom practitioners!

Lollipops' (cartoon character) feed on Twitter. Tweets in Japanese.

Gachapin's (a cartoon character) Twitter feed. Tweets in fairly simple Japanese.

IPA Writer is a free online tool to transcribe phonetics using the IPA. It is powerful, yet simple. Clicking on an IPA character adds it to the end of the "IPA result" textbox at the top of the page. The IPA Writer is separated into four parts. Vowels, consonants, other consonants and diacritics/suprasegmentals.

Includes OCR for more than 120 languages. Special versions for Asian, Hebrew and Arabic characters also available.

"Have you used all of the features of the nciku Japanese dictionary? Apart from looking up English or Japanese words to see their translation, kana pronunciation and romaji, you can also draw kanji characters with your mouse to look up words you don't know how to type, take memorization tests and view flashcards based on prebuilt word lists or your own custom vocabulary lists, and highlight words in dictionary definitions to see a quick translation. "

Tag Galaxy provides a beautiful, animated format for exploring images that have been tagged in Flickr. Great source for conversation/oral fluency activities: students can search for a word related to a current unit topic (e.g, "clothing," "almuerzo," "hanami") and then practice talking about what they see in the images. Seems to only accept input in roman characters.

There are free, interactive online Cantonese lessons, Mandarin lessons, and Chinese character lessons. There are also comments on Chinese culture, and links to other Chinese resources.

An online comic strip creation tool. Gives a lot of control over characters to be able to change position and change emotions. Does not seem to except non-Roman input.

In Windows, the Polytonic Greek support is a combination of a special Greek keyboard layout (Greek Polytonic) and a few fonts containing all the additional characters (diacritical and punctuation marks). This downloadable whitepaper outlines the steps you need to take to use Polytonic Greek from fonts to necessary keyboard layout.

Arabic Alphabets with audio and character placement images

Type in a website address or Japanese text and Rikai will load it with mouseover definitions for Japanese characters.

Explains why there are sometimes breaks due to vowel diacritics in Arabic. (need a font that uses zero-width characters for the diacritics).

Fun Input Toy: 最FIT你的Mac&iPhone输入法-全拼/双拼/全双混拼，五笔型/全拼五笔混合，笔画" A pinyin-based input method for Chinese on a Mac, some users may prefer to the the Mac's built-in ITABC method

Add on for Firefox that provides popup dictionary help for reading Japanese, Chinese, and (coming soon) Korean on webpages.

Kanji LS Touch is a program for iPhone/iPod Touch for learning Kanji. LS stands for Learning Software. It utilizes the unique touch interface to intuitively teach you how to draw the Kanji by displaying strokeorder guidelines.