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Japanese language learning tools on Web

1 Visual Resources Online
2 Building fluency, learning composition
3 Learner's dictionaries
4 Resources in English
- 4.1 Engilsh language encyclopedias on Japan
5 Primary sources for Japanese language students

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Visual Resources Online

http://gakuen.gifu-net.ed.jp/~contents/syou_kokugo/h14/1nen/index.htm (QuickTime; Directions in easy Japanese)

Shows how to write hiragana and katakana

http://kakijun.main.jp/ (Gif Animation; Directions in Japanese)

Shows the order of Kanji strokes

http://www.a-chi.jp/index.html (Flash)

Shows how to write hiragana, katakana, alphabet and numbers.

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Building fluency, learning composition

13 secrets for speaking fluent Japanese. Murray, Giles. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, c1999.

PL539 .M94 1999

Kokugo, kokubun sotsuron, repōto no kakikata. Saitō Kiyoe... [et al.] (henshū). Tōkyō: Yūbun Shoin, 1985. (Shōwa 59).

国語。国文卒論。レポートの書き方, 編集齋藤清衛... [et al.] 東京: 右文書院, 1985. (昭和 59).

LB2369 .K64 1985

Gaikokujin no tame no Nihongo reibun: mondai shirīzu. Nagara Susumu (kanshū). Tōkyō: Aratake Shuppan, 1984-. (Shōwa 62-).

外国人のための日本語例文: 問題シリーズ. 名柄迪(監修). 東京: 荒竹出版, 1984-. (昭和62-).

PL539.3 .G36 1984

Gendaijin no tame no Nihongo no jōshiki dai hyakka. Ikeda Yasaburō (hen). Tōkyō: Kōdansha, 1982.

現代人のための日本語の常識大百科. 池田弥三郎(編). 東京: 講談社, 1982.

[http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=b2050741 PL511 .G4 1982}

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Learner's dictionaries

Here's a list: Dictionaries for Japanese language learners.

Also look under Grammar and usage in Dictionaries for language and linguistics: Japanese.

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Resources in English

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Engilsh language encyclopedias on Japan

Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo; New York, N.Y.: Kōdansha, 1983.

DS805 .K633 1983

Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan (Supplement). Tokyo; New York, N.Y.: Kodansha, 1986.

DS805 .K633 1983 SUPPL

Encyclopedia of Japan. [computer file] (Eibun Nihon dai jiten). Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd., 1999.

英文日本大事典.

DS805 .E53 1999 Computer file

The Encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture. Mark Schilling. New York: Weatherhill, 1997.

DS822.5 .S3 1997

Encyclopedia of Japan: Japanese history and culture, from abacus to zori. Dorothy Perkins. New York: Facts on File, c1991.

DS805 .P47 1991

Encyclopedia of Japanese American history: an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present. Brian Niiya (editor); Japanese American National Museum; (foreword by Daniel K. Inouye); (introduction essay by Gary Y. Okihiro). Facts on File, c2001.

E184.J3 E53 2001

Encyclopedia of Japanese business and management. Allan Bird (ed.). London; New York : Routledge, 2002.

HF1001 .E467 2002

Encyclopedia of Japanese descendants in the Americas: an illustrated history of the Nikkei. Akemi Kikumura-Yano (ed.); (foreword by Daniel K. Inouye) ; introduction by Gary Y. Okihiro). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, c2002.

E29.J3 E53 2002

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