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Audio Lesson Studio - Link - "Allows you to create simple, user-defined, .mp3 audio lessons that may be used as an aid for learning languages or just about anything else - use your imagination! Audio can be based on existing media or automatically generated using Text-To-Speech." Capture2Text - Japanese OCR Utility - Link - "A utility that allows you to quickly capture a small portion of the screen, OCR it and (by default) save the result to the clipboard." cb's Japanese Word Frequency List Generator - Link - "A utility for generating word frequency lists from files that contains Japanese text." and more

Hints & tips to learn Japanese

Chinese / Japanese resources for Years 5-8.

List of Japanese 'yojijukugo'; in kanji with an English translation

Creative commons in Japanese

This site lets you practice learning hiragana and katakana, the two Japanese syllabaries.

European site has games to learn a number of languages including French, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, German and English. There are a few free Bingo games (health and home objects). There are sheets that provide expressions (at least for French) that you'll use when playing board games or card games. Those could come in handy for building cultural vocab. that we don't often encounter in our academic language classes.

Has several links to flash game sites where you can arrange furniture. Have used 1 for listening activity on the housing topic. I used Japanese to say where things were in the room and students had to place the items in the correct spot.