Japanese
Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 1 by ISBN: 9781329996779Publication Date: 2015This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school.
Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 2 by ISBN: 9781387254149Publication Date: 2017"This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school.
As a beginning level textbook, this book includes many elementary grammar patterns (Japanese Language Proficiency Test Levels 5 and 4), but the vocabulary and situations are selected specifically for working adults. Explanations are kept concise so as to only cover key points. The main focus is on oral communication and the accompanying audio is to be used extensively. This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course."
Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 3 by "his textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school.
As a beginning level textbook, this book includes many elementary grammar patterns (Japanese Language Proficiency Test Levels 5 and 4), but the vocabulary and situations are selected specifically for working adults. Explanations are kept concise so as to only cover key points. The main focus is on oral communication and the accompanying audio is to be used extensively. This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course.
Audio files are also available online: https://media.pdx.edu/tag/tagid/beginning%20japanese%203"
- Preadvanced Japanese, Portland State UniversityThis textbook is designed for students who have intermediate competency in Japanese, roughly at Level 2 on the ILR (The Interagency Language Roundtable) proficiency scale, and are working on reaching Level 3.
- Visualizing JapaneseLinks to 66 Flash animations of various grammatical structures in Japanese and 12 downloadable appendices.
- Kanji AliveA free web application designed to help Japanese language students of all levels learn to read and write kanji.
- MIT Open Courseware Global Studies & LanguageMIT's Foreign Languages and Literature department offers an extensive collection of online courses. Course format includes, lecture videos, interactive concept quizzes (solution key), problem sets, terms and definitions, suggested topics and links, and exams (with solution key).
BBC LanguagesLessons, phrases, vocabulary, tests, and links to news sources in 40 languages. Site is no longer updated, but most resources are still very useful.- Center for Open Educational Resources and Language LearningU. of Texas at Austin site with links to language learning resources for Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish.
- GLOSSGlobal Language Online Support System from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. Lessons are developed for independent learners to provide them with the learning/teaching tools for improving their foreign language skills. Reading and listening lessons are based on authentic materials (articles, TV reports, radio broadcasts, etc.) and consist of 4 to 6 activities. Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Gulf-Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Lingu@net WorldwideComprehensive resource for a wide range of languages. Search by language, proficiency level, and source language. Each language has a large number of resources.
MemriseUses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. Interactive site that saves individual progress.
MERLOT World LanguagesAn educational resource for teaching and learning languages. Free materials for for many different languages.- Open Learn LanguagesTeaching and learning resources from the Open University (based in UK).