Charles Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials

• 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) (YouTube Playlist)
  • Japanese Kumamoto Dialect (熊本弁) compared to Osaka Dialect (大阪弁)
  • 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.

• 四字熟語 - For Advanced Students
  • Yoji Jukugo 1 (402) The Most Commonly-used Ones
  • Yoji Jukugo 2 (301) Less Common - (n, vs)
  • Yoji Jukugo 3 (1756) Less Common - (n)
  • Yoji Jukugo 4 (552) Less Common - Not (n, vs) or (n)
  • Yoji Jukugo 5 (234) Less Common - 2 ways to say or write

• 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
  • A Lesson in Speaking the Nagoya Dialect of Japanese
  • A friend and I wrote this for the 名古屋味噌煮込みマガジン.

• 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.

• 毎日の英単語クイズ (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.
    • Words Studied in Junior High School (74 Dozen)
    • Words Studied in High School (81 Dozen)
    • Words Studied in College (111 Dozen)
    • Words for AIT Freshmen (55 Dozen)

• 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 ...

• Japanese Study on an iPad
  I'm adding PDF files of the above project, so you can put them on your iPad for offline reading.

• Anki Decks for Japanese-English Study