MHC Languages

Clickable IPA chart that allows you to put together a transcription to copy and paste into another document.

News bites on Twitter (about Japan, in English).

Japanese politician on Twitter (tweets in Japanese).

Lists some suggested people to follow in Twitter who tweet in Japanese for the purpose of learning the language.

Yomiuri newspaper twitter feed. In both Japanese and English.

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

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

Japan Times feeds on Twitter. Tweets about Japan in English.

"We Follow" list shows the Tweeters in Japanese that have the most influence and the most followers.

Listen online or podcast of NHK (from Japan) content in 17 languages.

""Japan, My Love" is an audio drama. In each lesson of the drama, you can learn a useful expression. By the time you reach the end of the series, you will have mastered 100 handy expressions! "

Podcast from Nippon Hoso (Japanese radio station).

Italian-English dictionary

"This programme is a set of interactive exercises to help you revise the Kanji you learn in class. The exercises have been carefully designed to follow the structure of your coursebook and you will find ample usage of Hiragana to help recognise the kanji through multiple choice and gap-fill exercises, jumble modules and crosswords. Some contain sound and other display pictures. "

Free online tools for photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more at Aviary.com.

Self-assessment for students to help decide if an online course would fit their learning style/personality/habits.

"The Sketch Engine (SkE, also known as Word Sketch Engine) is a Corpus Query System incorporating word sketches, grammatical relations, and a distributional thesaurus. A word sketch is a one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summary of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour. A Sketch Engine account gives you * Pre-loaded corpora (60M-2B words) for o Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene o Other languages to follow * WebBootCaT o Build your own instant corpus o Extract keywords o Specialist terminology, any language * CorpusBuilder o Upload and install your own corpora Web service using standard browsers. No software installation required. "

400+ million words, 1990-2009, Mark Davies, Brigham Young University

"I am a researcher and Associate Professor at the College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Japan. My current research interests are vocabulary selection, vocabulary learning, e-learning, and the pedagogical applications of corpus linguistics."

"CorpusLAB is a new FREE site for language learners and language teachers. CorpusLAB is designed to promote language learning based on real English used in different settings. Students can use the site to take a variety of exercises created by teachers. Go to the Student pages and select a topic area (phrasal verbs, Academic English etc.). If you register, you will be able to keep track of your progress. Teachers can use the site in different ways. The central engine of the site is a series of exercise authoring tools. The exercises, which include fill-the-gap, multiple-choice, matching, reorder, and categorise, are designed in a way that promotes the learning of collocations and phrasal patterns. For example, the matching exercise allows up to five columns of items rather than the usual two. One of the aims of the site is to build up resources for specialised English: Medical English, English for Tourism, and so on. "