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Hot Potatoes This site provides free software which includes six applications, enabling teachers to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. |
| Quia There are many templates for creating online games, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, hangman, and challenge board. There are very many games that are ready to use. |
| High
Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium On this site, teachers can make their own web pages that give students links to web pages to be visited to do several types of quizzes. |
| SCOLA's
Insta-Class Materials provided on this site consist of transcripts of the first five minutes of news broadcast in the original language (13 languages, such as Chinese, French, Hebrew, and Japanese) and English translations, supplemented by vocabulary, quizzes, and topics for discussion. |
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LinguaWeb language center This site offers learning and teaching materials in French, Spanish, German, and Italian. There are teaching resources and self-learning materials, including games. |
| Internet
Activities for Foreign Language Classes There are useful explanations of how to make and conduct Internet-based learning/teaching in language classes and many lesson plans of some languages such as French, Spanish, German, and Japanese. |
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Virtual Picture Album The concept of this site is that teaching language, including vocabulary, grammar, and cultural information, can be done with pictures and drawings. There are many lesson plans for less commonly taught languages. |
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Japanese |
| Rikai This site provides highly interactive tools for reading Japanese. The site shows pronunciations of Kanji characters and their meanings. Also, there are many up-to-date news stories written in Japanese with reading help. |
| Reading
Tutor This site is designed to help learners improve their reading skills in Japanese. There are an interactive dictionary tool, level checkers for Japanese passages, and many reading materials. |
| English-Japanese
Vocabulary Quizzes There are many interactive vocabulary quizzes on this site. The activities are categorized with both grammar forms and quiz forms such as Java-quizzes, crosswords, and flash quizzes. |
| Dictation
Quizzes for Japanese Speech The site consists of many dictation quizzes using Java applets for learners of Japanese to train themselves for hearing spoken sentences, words, syllables, short phrases, and accents. |
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GAHOH |
| Japanese-Online There are sixteen Japanese language lessons with sounds and online dictionary. Each lesson has a dialogue with sounds, vocabulary explanations, translations, and drills. |
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Japanese Writing Tutor This is the site explaining about the Japanese writing system with animations of the strokes of letters. This site is useful to help beginners grasp the concept of the Japanese writing system. |
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Monash Nihongo ftp Archive This site provides large amounts of freeware and shareware of Japanese word processing programs, dictionaries, educational programs, and more. |
| LANGUAGE
LAB This is a self-study site of Japanese. The site provides an easy introduction to the Japanese language, so the novice learners can investigate the language by themselves before or along with the beginning-level class. |
| Japanese
Language Resource Center: Kanji Step The essential Kanji characters are introduced with dialogues, animations of writing strokes, and sounds. Also, there are some self-assessment quizzes of grammar and vocabulary. |