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Charles Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials
Charles Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials
オンラインで使 つかい つか える日本語 にほんご にほんご 教材 きょうざい きょうざい
These are free-to-use online materials that I have developed to help people learn Japanese.
I am a long-term resident of Japan. I came to Japan when I was four years old.
Added on 2022-12-01
Sortable Table of Japanese TTS Voices
This is related to the next link. These are links to my YouTube Demo videos of TTS voices.
I made this mainly for my own reference. However, perhaps you will find this table useful, too.
Added on 2022-11-18:
AI Japanese Text-to-Speech YouTube Videos
Over 100 TTS voices, generated by COEIROINK, SHAREVOX and VOICEVOX. (2022-11-30: Now over 140 TTS voices.)
You many enjoy listening to these while reading the text on the screen.
The Japanese text is large enough for most people to comfortably read on a smart phone.
Added on 2022-11-12:
Real Human Speakers (日本語 にほんご にほんご ) (YouTube Playlist)
Japanese Kumamoto Dialect (熊本 くまもと くまもと 弁 べん べん ) compared to Osaka Dialect (大阪 おおさか おおさか 弁 べん べん )
There are currently 3 videos on the same channels as above.
Added on 2022-08-25:
English-Japanese Sentences Pairs with Audio - Selected from TALPCo
There are over 600 sentence pairs.
This is on my ESL/EFL part of the website, so the top navigation menu is not the same.
This uses data from the TUFS Asian Language Parallel Corpus (TALPCo).
Added on 2022-08-18:
The Business Scene Dialogue Corpus - Japanese-English Business Conversation Corpus
There are over 800 dialogues. (About 24,000 sentences)
This is on my ESL/EFL part of the website, so the top navigation menu is not the same.
I inserted code, so you can hear Text-to-Speech (TTS) on most devices, which while not 100% accurate, should help you read the Japanese if you aren't good at reading.
Japanese-English Quizzes in Romaji
You can use these even if your computer doesn't support Japanese characters.
Matching Quizzes and Multiple-choice Quizzes Using Only Romaji
Japanese Kana Quizzes
Hiragana
Katakana
Multiple-choice Vocabulary Quizzes Using Only Kana
Kanji Study
Multiple-choice Vocabulary Quizzes on Words Using Kanji
Quizzes on 516 High Frequency Japanese Family Names (Surnames).
Top 2,000 Kanji List Compiled by Paul Battley in 2003
Words from Japanese Newspapers in Order of Frequency
Multiple-choice Vocabulary Quizzes Sorted by Frequency of Word Use.
The Flash program was updated slightly in January of 2017.
CGI Flashcards: Randomly Chosen Japanese Words for Reading Practice
Each time you load the page you will get a random selection of words from the 17,155 words using kanji that were marked as commonly-used (P) in EDICT.
Reading Japanese Signs
Practice reading Japanese signs.
Japanese Language Proficiency Test Vocabulary Lists
Vocabulary Multiple-choice Quizzes, Matching Quizzes, and Flashcards.
Also, Vocabulary Study Lists Linked to Online Dictionaries
Daily Startup (Home) Page for Students of Japanese
Get 36 kanji characters a day.
Choose your own level or as many levels as you would like to cover each day.
You'll be able to see all the 1,908 selected kanji characters several times a year.
Also included are 3 major English search engines, 3 major Japanese search engines and some Japanese reading tools, so it will make a useful "home" page for you.
Japanese Reading and Translation Practice
Read Japanese sentences with kanji introduced in the order of frequency of use.
Quiz on Words Usually Written in Kana
A fun challenge even for Japanese native speakers.
Help with Searches for J-Pop on YouTube.com
Easily search musicians' names with [G]oogle or with [Y]ouTube.
Japanese Word Frequency Lists
A Select List of Japanese Language Study Sites
I tried to make a list of links limited to just the "very best" sites.
四 よん よん 字 じ じ 熟語 じゅくご じゅくご - For Advanced Students
More
If you use the menu at the top of the page, you can find other things, too.
Related Things I Have Created for Other Websites
How to Speak Nagoya-Ben
English-Japanese Vocabulary Quizzes (iteslj.org/v/j)
I wrote the JavaScript code for this website.
On this site, you can find some more of my vocabulary quizzes as well as quizzes written by others.
毎日 まいにち まいにち の英単語 えいたんご えいたんご クイズ (Daily English Vocabulary Quizzes)
These are quizzes I put online for Japanese who are studying English .
Be aware that these are designed for studying English, not Japanese. However, you might find these interesting.
Matching Quiz: Words You Should Know (362 Dozen)
This is a matching quiz I wrote for Japanese who are studying English .
There are 362 dozens of matches in the main quiz. Perhaps too many to do at one time, so each time you return to the page, the words are reshuffled generating different matching quizzes.
Here are the some of the same words, sorted by level.
High Frequency English Words with English-Japanese Example Sentences I created this for Japanese who are studying English, but you might find it interesting, too.
And More ...
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