Links

Hi, This is a part of my presentation which I did for a Japanese language teacher meeting at California State University at Sacramento on October 4, 2003. Since the fall of 2002, I have been working with Ms. Andrea Shea, Information Technology Consultant at University Computing and Communication Services. She has developed interesting on-line exercises such as Usagi's drag-n-drop exercise. In addition to her work, I compiled various links on Kana learning, which I thought very useful and interesting to my students. My students have been using these sites to enhance their kana skills.

Kana

Hiragana

Work on Hiragana Recognition: Usagi's drag-n-drop (created by Andrea)
Kana flash card - Hiragana Recognition: Kana flash card
Check here - if you are interested in hiragana flashcards for your learning
Hiragana Flashcard (pdf)
Hiragana Recognition: Link to Ultimate challenge
How to write kana: Usagi's stroke order.
How to write Kana - This site will show you how to write Japanese character using brush with voice instruction. The order of the hiragana is different since they use an old hiragana chart. Click Japanese calligraphy.

Katakana

Do you have difficulties in remembering katakana? Link to katakana mnemonics site - Click here.
Work on Katakana Recognition: Usagi's drag-n-drop
Check here - if you are interested in hiragana flashcards for your learning
Katakana Flashcard
How to write kana: Usagi's stroke order.

Genki

On-line vocabulary exercise for Genki Textbook(currently only available to CSUS students who are studying Japanese)

Usagi-site has an interesting vocabulary exercise. Work on Vocabulary on all lessons. The site contains all vocabulary on Genki. In this exercise, you need to type in kana to do this exercise. (To install the Japanese word processing, read "How to read and write Japanese at your computer" at the Usagi-site. If you do not have Office XP, click HERE! If you want to know more about Japanese and computing, click HERE! ) To use this on-line vocabulary exercise, choose a lesson, and press "return." When you type in, Usagi give you "x" if you do not type the word in the textbook. For example, "thanks" can be all of the followings: どうも、ありがとう、どうもありがとう. But Usagi's site only shows you "O" when you type どうも. Well, do you want to try?
Work on how to greet in Japanese from Genki On-line: Greeting exercise
Work on Vocabulary from Genki On-line: L1 on-line vocabulary
We developed a lot of on-line exercises on Web CT. We will show several screen shots so that you can take a look at what types of on-line quizzes and exercises which we created for this course.