TOOLS and STUDY AIDS
Tools
Flashcards, word maps, graphic organizers, and every other applicable study strategy I can find. You should be here before every test you ever take in Japanese class.
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Found this by accident, but it's fantastic. You can set up a flashcard tool to quiz you for vocabulary tests. They also send a daily email with some random sentence and grammar. It's a great way to get tiny doses of practice and discover new words.
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Useful for all subjects. You can share your sets, too, or look up sets made by other students. Really an all-around 便利な site.
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Quizlet is the Swiss army knife of user-input online study tools. Flashcard makers, timed practice, a listen-and-type function, and you can even compete against other students (or your friends and classmates). We'll use this in class if I ever get a chance to put everybody on a screen in the lab...
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Series
There are whole systems of "learn Japanese" lessons to be found online for free. I'm putting the best of them here: give them a try sometime. They can be good review for things you've already learned or a way to advance yourself beyond the limits of the textbook.
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Brought to you by the number one television channel in Japan, 日本放送協会 (Nippon Housou Kyoukai, or NHK as it's best known) an excellent resource for self-study of Japanese language for the beginner. Available in 16 languages beyond English; pass it along to your international friends.
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