Useful Links for 7th Grade Continuous & 8th Grade 2nd-year Students

I.  Katakana Help

Here are some Katakana sites to help you practice Katakana!

a.  Listen to Katakana

Talking Katakana Chart:

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/katakana.htm

http://www.languageguide.org/im/alpha/jp/katakana.jsp

b.  Check stroke order

c.  Listen to Katakana song!

d.  Katakana Games

Have fun!

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/katakana1.htm

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/9101s.html

e.  Katakana Quiz

f.  Katakana Recognition  Average native Japanese speakers can recognize the letters within 0.4 seconds.  Can you beat them?

g.  Katakana Matching

h.  Ultimate Kana Challenge!

II.  Hiragana, Katakana, and Obentoo Vocabulary & Grammar exercises with Flashcards

III.  Other useful websites

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Colors

Colors video

Color game,  Color game 2

Animal sound video

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Weather vocabulary

http://www.languageguide.org/im/weather/jp/

Weather song

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/japaneseweather.htm

 View Today's weather in Japan

Calendar vocabulary

http://www.languageguide.org/txt/time/jp/

Days of the week  

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/daysoftheweek.htm

Month of the year video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vapY3xQbPE&amp;feature=related

 Month of the year game

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/monthsoftheyearinjapanese.htm

Interactive story: Ancient Japan

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Fruits vocabulary:  http://www.languageguide.org/im/fruits/jp/

Vegetables vocabulary

http://www.languageguide.org/im/veg/jp/

http://kanza.qee.jp/LibraryHtm/kakikatahtm/yasaimoji.html (click on the face at the bottom)

Typical home-cooked meal around Japan:  http://tmap.yomiuri.co.jp/

Japanese food:  festival foods video:  http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/japanesefestivalfood.htm

The World of Japanese food: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/mmprojects/japanese/index.php

What do you like? game:  http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/whatdoyoulikeinjapanese.htm

"What food do you like?"  picture book video:  http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/learnjapanesefoodanimals.htm

Interactive story:  healthy life

Obentoo information: http://www.tjf.or.jp/clicknippon/en/jcn/t28jcn_e.html

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Interactive story

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Body parts

http://www.languageguide.org/im/body/jp/

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/bodypartsinjapanese.htm

Adjectives video

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/learnjapanesehotcoldfun.htm

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a.  Obentoo deluxe

http://www.thomsonlearning.com.au/secondary/lote/obento/deluxe/student/About%20the%20course.html

b.  Kanji sites

http://www.kanjisite.com/html/wak/index.html

c.  WH-Questions song

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/whenwherewhowhat.htm

d.  Learn cool phrases!

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/japanese.htm

e.  Lots of Japanese phrases

http://japanese-phrases.sakura.ne.jp/

f.  English-Japanese Vocabulary Quiz

http://iteslj.org/v/j/