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VCE Stuff => VCE Languages Other Than English (LOTE) => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Japanese SL => Topic started by: IntoTheNewWorld on July 13, 2009, 05:49:59 pm
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For the most up to date list check out http://vcejapanese.net/links/
Top
http://lang-8.com/
http://www.alc.co.jp/index.htm
http://rikaichan.mozdev.org/
http://nihongo-e-na.com/eng/
Language Exchange
http://lang-8.com/ - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
This is one of those "language exchange" sites, primarily for native Japanese and English speakers. Essentially you can write Japanese "journals" (but in reality you can just put practice essays), and native Japanese people, living in Japan will correct it for you. This site is quite active, so it's very likely you will get corrections quite promptly. In turn you can also correct Japanese people's English journals.
http://www.language-exchanges.org/
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/
Grammar Resources
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/
The Ultimate grammar guide (Written by a Korean, it must be good). Covers a lot of VCE Grammar, as well as post VCE grammar.
http://www.jgram.org/
Not quite as well written as above, but still good. Community written so it covers more but may not be as reliable (like Wikipedia)
http://homepage3.nifty.com/i-yasu/bk-les.htm
Grammar explanations in Japanese
Japanese learning Podcasts
http://www.japanesepod101.com/
Regularly updated podcasts for various levels. If you have an iPod, just add the feed to iTunes. To access other resources (PDFs, "Learning Centre" on the site you have to pay a sizeable amount > <. Lower Intermediate is approximately VCE Level, Upper Intermediate is a bit harder than VCE, and the Advanced Audio Blog is quite difficult (JLPT2/1). There are also other side series that may be of interest
Dictionaries/Translation
English -> Japanese, Japanese -> English dictionaries
http://www.alc.co.jp/index.htm - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
English to Japanese dictionary, which provides an array of examples.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
One of the most prevalent dictionaries on the Internet, and is the basis for many web apps. If you have an iPhone/iPod touch there's an app called Kotoba which includes this dictionary
http://www.jisho.org/
Uses the WWWjdic database, but is more user friendly, and also has way more sample sentences
Japanese -> Japanese dictionaries
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/
http://www.sanseido.net/
http://kotobank.jp/ - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Translation
http://translate.google.com/#
Primary Sources
News Sites
(Rikai-chan or equivalent is recommended when reading these sites)
http://www.fnn-news.com/
Japanese News with videos
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/ann/news/web/index.html
http://www.nhk.or.jp/
http://news.tbs.co.jp/
http://www.asahi.com/
Web Portals
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/
Number 1 visited site in Japan.
http://www.goo.ne.jp/
Blog Portals
http://ameblo.jp/
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/
Audio
http://fantajikan.tea-nifty.com/blog/
Japanese children books! (audio). Can be added as a feed to iTunes
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6241&PN=1&TPN=1
An extensive list of Japanese e-books
Kanji Resources
http://rikaichan.mozdev.org/ - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
The ULTIMATE Firefox add-in. Gives popup readings/meanings for all Kanji. A must have.
http://www.jlpt-kanji.com/
Flashcards for Kanji organized by JLPT level (Can be printed).
http://www.kanjisite.com/
http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx
A website which provides pop up readings of hiragana, katakana and kanji. It's much like Altavista's Babel or Google Translator. Except it's better. It supports Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
http://nihongo.j-talk.com/parser/
A Kanji to hiragana converter. Can be used for individual words, sentences, or whole web pages with little popup furigana (which may or may not work
http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl
Same as above, but I find it isn't quite as reliable.
http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/SearchKanji3?OpenForm
Pro Kanji Dictionary that has readings, meanings, and even stroke order animations
http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa070101a.htm
Learn about Radicals, which may help you memorize Kanji more easily.
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/kanji_main.html
Kanji worksheets designed for the Genki series of textbooks, but can be used without them.
Learning courses/tools
http://ichi2.net/anki/
A highly advanced flashcard program. I would recommend creating your own flashcard decks from texts you are reading, rather than grinding premade decks which have little context.
http://iknow.jp/
An advanced online flashcard like system
http://www.japaneseclass.jp/index.php
A Japanese vocab MMORPG kind of thing.
http://nihongoup.com/
various games and courses to learn Japanese
http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/
tool to learn Kanji
http://mykikitori.com/index.html
various listening exercises
http://anime-manga.jp/index.html
various fun games to learn Japanese
JLPT
http://japanese.human.metro-u.ac.jp/mic-j/home-e.html
A bunch of JLPT listening.
http://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/Download.htm
Various JLPT resources, including listening
http://www.malago.net/jlpt.php
various resources for studying for the JLPT
Language Learning Blogs
http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/
A blog about methods of learning Japanese. Interesting read.
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/
The home of the (in)famous AJATT 10,000 sentence method. Many, many, many posts (but quite interesting) to go through. May absorb time.
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/blog/
A blog about language learning by the Tae Kim, author of Guide to Japanese
Miscellaneous
http://www.bungeisha.co.jp/publishing/download/
printable genkouyoushi that you can also type in Word with. Pretty cool.
http://www.kaomojinavi.net/index.htm
copy and paste Japanese emoticons like a pro.
http://www.myj7000.jp-biz.net/index.htm
look up Kanji names
http://nihongo-e-na.com/eng/
Many, many, many links to various other useful sites
Thank you to Son for many of these resources.
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Stickied.
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where's my credits for rikai, japaneseclass & lang-8?!
UPDATE.
http://www.alc.co.jp/index.html - English to Japanese dictionary, which provides an array of examples.
http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx - A website which provides pop up readings of hiragana, katakana and kanji. It's much like Altavista's Babel or Google Translator. Except it's better. It supports Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
I'll update when I find more useful resources.
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where's my credits for rikai, japaneseclass & lang-8?!
Sumimasen~ credits inserted. Happy desu ka?
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ohhh i love these!! thankyou. =)
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I joined Lang-8!
It seems quite good - plenty of quick responses.
I have 2 friends already (lol, yay me!)
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I joined Lang-8!
It seems quite good - plenty of quick responses.
I have 2 friends already (lol, yay me!)
だろう？
The quick responses are so pr0. I haven't written anything for so long though, bad me =[
The main problem is that not enough happens in my life to write about =\
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I joined Lang-8!
It seems quite good - plenty of quick responses.
I have 2 friends already (lol, yay me!)
だろう？
The quick responses are so pr0. I haven't written anything for so long though, bad me =[
The main problem is that not enough happens in my life to write about =\
I can confirm this.
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folding 1000 paper cranes is useful for harnessing japanese spirit, in turn making the language much easier to learn. I recommend the weekend before the exam....do this :)
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folding 1000 paper cranes is useful for harnessing japanese spirit, in turn making the language much easier to learn. I recommend the weekend before the exam....do this :)
Guaranteed high marks if you do this.
Guaranteed 50 if you fold one using your exam paper.
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folding 1000 paper cranes is useful for harnessing japanese spirit, in turn making the language much easier to learn. I recommend the weekend before the exam....do this :)
Guaranteed high marks if you do this.
Guaranteed 50 if you fold one using your exam paper.
is that what you did? :P
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Hi i was wondering if there were sample detailed studies or general convo notes.
I just started to write my general convo notes, but im not sure how long they should be ? S:
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Also, what happened to VCEJapanese?
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Hi i was wondering if there were sample detailed studies or general convo notes.
I just started to write my general convo notes, but im not sure how long they should be ? S:
When I get around to it, I'll upload the ones I used onto http://vcejapanese1337.wordpress.com/downloads/
I recall mine were around 7 pages...? I forget
Also, what happened to VCEJapanese?
server fee renewal came around, and I found after a year of Uni I had lost almost all of my previous interest in VCE, and in turn VCE Japanese (Detailed Study oh my god that was the bane of my existence), so the site moved to free hosting at http://vcejapanese1337.wordpress.com/ My interest in Japanese also went down to a lesser extent (being overtaken by Korean).
NB: The only reason there's the 1337 is because vcejapanese.wordpress.com is unavailable, due to me previously owning that address and then deleting it.
[early hype]I'm soon to start working on a new(UoM related, not VCE or Japanese related) project which will hopefully debut soon after Uni starts :D [/early hype]
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i wonder how to download kotoba off http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
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i wonder how to download kotoba off http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
Hi just go to here
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/kotoba-japanese-dictionary/id288499125?mt=8
It's based off the jim breen dictionary
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iknow.jp is a great tool - it's so easy to learn words! Also, with the words with kanji, it focuses on recognition, not how to write the kanji, which makes it a lot less overwhelming. It costs money to use, but it's worth it!
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Any chance of Japanese textbooks pdfs being uploaded?
These resources are so hard to come by...
Thanks in advance :D
Check out this http://vce.atarnotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,35657.0.html
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Do you have any strategies about how to do listening sacs?