Web Sites Recommended by Teachers (the sites are good as of Nov. 18, 2002)

BEST 10 (in random order)

• Kids Web Japan: http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/
• Japanese Language at About.com: http://japanese.about.com
• Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks: http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks
• NihongoWeb: http://www.nihongoweb.com
• Reading Tutor: http://language.tiu.ac.jp
• Rikai.com: http://www.rikai.com
• The Japan Forum (including "DEAI"): http://www.tif.or.jp/ (Japanese) http://www.tif.or.jp/indexe.html (English)
• Jim Breen's Japanese page: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html
• Purdue University Japan Project: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj
• Copyright free Audio Visual Center: http://eall.wlu.edu/eall/avcover.html

More Sites J

Web sites by teachers

• Wake Forest Yookoso Kanji Chapters: http://www.wfu.edu/~takatay/YookosoKanji/
• Kanji Practice: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kanji/
• UFL Japanese 2201: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/wehmeyer/2201.html

Search Engines

• Yahoo! Japan: http://www.yahoo.co.jp
• Google Japan: http://www.google.co.jp
• Japan Reference: http://www.japanreference.com/

Authentic material

• McDonald's Japan: http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp
• Hard Rock CafŽ Japan: http://www.gnavi.co.jp/wdi/hardrock/
• Japan Information Network: http://www.jinjapan.org/
• Tokyo Disneyland: http://www.tokyodisneyresort.co.jp/

Media

• NHK (including NHK Shuukan Kodomo News): http://www.nhk.or.jp/
• Fuji TV: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/en/
• Asahi.com: http://www.asahi.com
• Yomiuri News Stream: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/stream/

Textbooks

• Nakama: http://uiowa.edu/~japanese/NAKAMA/
• Genki online: http://genki-online.com

***More Web sites are available from our report from a pilot study in Northern California (presented at SEATJ):
http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/SEATJ2002/survey.html

copyright 2002 Fukai, Omoto and Schneider