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Learning Japanese - Where Do I Begin?
You want to learn Japanese, but don't know where to start? This page directs you to where you should begin.

Japanese Writing for Beginners
Writing might be one of the most difficult, but also fun, parts of learning Japanese. There are three types of scripts in Japanese: kanji, hiragana and katakana. The combination of all three is used for writing.

Japanese Lessons
Japanese lessons including kanji, hiragana, katakana and grammar.

Lessons with Sound Files
Listening the sound files is good practice for your pronunciations. Try to listen them repeatedly to get proper sounds. 

Chiron's Survival Japanese Course
This course is designed for beginners who wish to learn basic Japanese.

CosCom: Study Japanese The Web
CosCom is expert in teaching Japanese language to business people who come to Japan from overseas and in developing and publishing Japanese language teaching and learning materials.

Evisa Japanese Language Study
Free language study resources: vocabulary lists, flashcards, games, and tests.

Japan Central: Beginner Level Japanese Course
Twenty basic lessons with sound files to chose from.

Japan Culture Study Group
Useful lessons focusing on grammar.

Japanese for the Western Brain
14 lessons focused on grammar. Good for beginners.

Japanese Online: Japanese Lessons
Each lesson includes a conversational dialog, a translation of the conversation, vocabulary used within the conversation, grammar points, and cultural issues.

JapanesePod101.com
Learn Japanese with free daily podcasts direct from Tokyo. Compelling lessons incorporate culture, current issues, and real life experiences - everything you won't find in a textbook.

Japanese podcasting lessons
Learn to speak and write Japanese kanji, hiragana and katakana and symbols.

KanjiStep
A web site dedicated to the study of the Japanese language. Offers free self study materials, tests, forums, language exchange etc. on over 200 pages and 600 sound files.

Lang-arts.com
Self-paced, multimedia courses for beginners, arranged by topic: Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji and Grammar.

Learn Japanese Language for real communications
"Learn Japanese Language" is an interactive Japanese learning Website, and offer 3 different Japanese lessons for real communication. Those lessones are: 1. learn Japanese scripts, 2. learn to speak Japanese by postcasting, and 3. Learn to Write Japanese in Hiragana script.

Learn to Speak Japanese Online
Free Japanese grammar and vocabulary lessons online. Learn how to read, write, and speak Japanese.

NHK Japanese Lessons
NHK airs Japanese lessons for people of various languages on its international shortwave RADIO JAPAN service. On this site, you can listen to those lessons.

nihongo.fm
Free 24 hour Japanese language study radio broadcasting 100's of audio Study Segments, industry news & event info. MP3 downloads store for your ipod or MP3 Player. Study when and where you want.

Sci.lang.japan: Frequently Asked Questions
This is a list of questions about the Japanese language that have been asked repeatedly on the Usenet newsgroup sci.lang.japan, with answers.

Study Japanese Online
Learn Japanese online for free. Includes lessons, dictionary, forum, and a drill tool for glossary, kanji, katakana and hiragana.

Tae Kim's Japanese guide to Japanese grammar
This site explains Japanese grammar in a systematic step-by-step process.

Teach yourself Japanese
Learn Japanese through self-study. Site has several Java applets to help you understand Japanese. 

The Japan Reference Page
Great resources for the Japanese language. Site links are updated daily.

The Japanese Language Resource
The Japanese Language Resource provides free print-outs for personal and classroom use on topics such as particles, adjectives, verbs and verb conjugations. Prior intermediate knowledge of the Japanese language is needed.

The Japanesepage.com
Various lessons to learn Japanese language, culture, kanji and more.

The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese
Japanese the fast way.

YesJapan.com
You can learn to speak, read and write Japanese without ever stepping into a classroom.