Lukol Directory: Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Japanese

The Kanji Master Program
Site devoted to the study of kanji in the light of their history and place within Chinese and Japanese civilization.
http://www.kotoba-project.com/

Kanji.com
Writings on the kanji character system.
http://www.kanji.com/

Honyaku Glossaries
Specialized wordlists from the Honyaku mailing list for Japanese translators: financial and marketing terms, romanized acronyms, Japanese car names, government agencies, and numbers. (UTF-8)
http://crossroads.net/honyaku/

All the Japanese Slang You Can Stand Too!
A slang resource for Japanese language enthusiasts interested in learning colloquial speech terminology.
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/jslang/

Osaka Shoin Women's College
The Japanese Language Research Center.
http://www.age.ne.jp/x/oswcjlrc/index-e.ht...

Joyo 96 - Understanding Written Japanese
Guide and tutorial on written Japanese.
http://www.joyo96.org/

Classical Japanese Poetry
Poems from Manyoshu, Kokinshu, and Genji, in English, romanization and Japanese script, with explanation of classical grammar. New poems added weekly.
http://www.classical-japanese.net/

Manifestations of Gender Distinction in the Japanese Language
Explains historical development of the Japanese language and diversity of its gender specific constructs and their usage.
http://www.coolest.com/jpfm.htm

Discovery Information's Kanji Lessons
Free online Chinese character lessons and links to Japanese-related sites.
http://www.discover.btinternet.co.uk/

Japanese wa, mo, ga, wo, na, no
Scholarly study of the syntax of the six most common post-nominal particles in Japanese, by Frederik Kortlandt.
http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art19...

Japanese: The Spoken Language
This three-volume textbook series and accompanying interactive CD-ROM program stresses Japanese as it is spoken today in Japan.
http://www.yale.edu/yup/jsl.htm

Learning Japanese BBS
Web-based bulletin board system for learning Japanese.
http://toshiweb.50megs.com/

Mainichi-Kanji
Introduces a new Chinese character to learn each weekday, with readings, meanings and examples; and reviews on weekends. Viewable on any computer.
http://mainichi.incors.com/

Kanji Clinic
A column appearing every third Friday in The Japan Times aiming at providing practical advice to non-Japanese adults striving to become literate in Japanese by learning the 1,945 general-use kanji. It is written by Mary Sisk Noguchi, associate professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan.
http://www.kanjiclinic.com/

The Origins of Kanji in Japan
The history of Chinese characters and how they came to be used in Japanese writing.
http://www.logoi.com/notes/kanji_origins.h...

Sub Topics:
Educational Software
Japanese Dictionaries
Resources
Learning


Related Topics:
Regional: Asia: Japan: Society and Culture: Language: Japanese Dialects



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