This tutorial is meant to help Japanese students practice their writing skills. By following along with the motion of several animated GIF files, you can hone your writing skills, making your katakana, hiragana, and kanji more legible.

Using this tutorial you will learn katakana, the set used for imported words. This tutorial also includes exercises involving surfing over Japanese Internet sites to look for characters and identify words you learn in a given lesson.

This set of lessons is designed for people who began learning Japanese by using romaji and now want to learn to read some real Japanese.

This program teaches Japan's language and culture through the experiences of an expatriate family newly transferred to Tokyo.

This site allows you to study Japanese by yourself. It contains several Java applets to help you learn. It has had more than 270,000 visitors.

online beginner level lessons.