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» All the Japanese Slang You Can Stand Too! - A slang resource for Japanese language enthusiasts interested in learning colloquial speech terminology.
» Classical Japanese language and literature - Site teaches classical (i.e. old) Japanese language through poems and extracts from literary classics. Grammar is explained. New poems added every week.
» Discovery Information's Kanji Lessons - Free online kanji lessons and links to Japanese-related sites.
» Gender Disctinction in Japanese - Essay on "Manifestations of Gender Distinction in the Japanese Language"
» Genki - Japanese and English language webring for those interested in learning these languages.
» Honyaku Mailing List - Dedicated to Japanese/English Translation (and translators)
» Japanese: The Spoken Language - This three-volume textbook series and accompanying interactive CD-ROM program stresses Japanese as it is spoken today in Japan.
» Kanji.com - Writings on the kanji character system.
» Learning Japanese BBS - Web-based bulletin board system for learning Japanese.
» Mainichi-Kanji - Introduces a new kanji on each weekday, with readings, meanings and examples. On weekends the week's kanji are reviewed. The site can be viewed on any computer, no Japanese fonts are required.
» North Kyushu Creole - A Hypothesis Concerning the Multilingual Formation of Japanese - Long linguistic paper by John C. Maher concerning the derivation of Japanese from a creolized koiné, with its major sources from the Altaic and Austronesian language families. The page is best read in the Japanese (Shift-JIS) character set.
» Osaka Shoin Women's College - The Japanese Language Research Center.
» The Origins of Kanji in Japan - The history of kanji and how it came to be used in Japanese writing.
» Understanding Written Japanese - This Kanji Study Group website teaches written Japanese language for free. Indexed kanji references, quick look-ups, and primers on kanji, hiragana and katakana.