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Rosetta Stone Language LearningThe Rosetta Stone's breakthrough language learning program uses thousands of real-life images, written text and voices of native speakers to teach you like a native learner. With Dynamic Immersion, you'll acquire everyday proficiency in all key language skills: listening comprehension, reading comprehension, speaking and writing. It's the natural way to learn and it works fast.
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Use your iPod or mp3 player for more than just listening to music. Audible.com allows you to download educational material like language courses, self help audiobooks and business newspapers so you can begin learning immediately. Audible.com also has an excellent selection of courses availble in audio format.
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Japanese-Online.com offers a free online dictionary, Japanese lessons, discussion forum, and useful links.
The Japanese Writing Tutor
The Japanese Writing Tutor is a free online tutorial to help you learn and practice your writing skills by following along with the motion of several animated GIF files. There are three writing tutors covering the katakana, hiragana and kanji character sets.
JP NET Home Page
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) provides free access to resources for Japanese language and culture learning for both educators and students.
Lesson/J
Lesson/J offers online quizzes using Java applets for learners of Japanese to train themselves for hearing spoken sentences, words, syllables and accent. Examine your hearing level for Japanese speech uttered by a professional announcer.
Reading Tutor
The Reading Tutor was designed to help JFL/JSL learners improve their reading skills in Japanese. This system was developed specifically to help learners study written Japanese at their own pace, in their own way.
University of Hawaii
Through the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawaii, two advanced online study courses in Chinese are available.
University of Washington
The University of Washington's Technical Japanese Program is an interactive language-learning program and is designed to accommodate professionals doing business with Japan and students with Japan interests. The three-quarter program starts at an intermediate level and teaches business conversation skills and is conducted entirely over the Internet. Accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges.
