Japanese Language Companion

Learning Japanese Interactively


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Table of Contents  -  Learn Japanese Lessons Interactively

Self Teaching Japanese Lesson Companion

Computer assisted self-learning and teaching lessons.
Talking pages teach vocabulary, phrase, grammar and pronunciation.
Advanced interactive learning with episode phrased simulator.

Japanese Self Teaching Tools

We offer unique interactive tools to assist your learning with audio. A conjugation tool helps to identify the verb's conjugation pattern. Some lessons are equipped with powerful "AutoPull" feature where an automatic play-mechanism triggers randomly selected phrases with text and audio. In addition, our comprehensive kanji tools prepare your reading, writing and using skills for business, study, manga and/or visit to Japan ; the kanji draw tool is accessible from all of the pages. Open the kanji search box, copy and paste. It opens a pop-up window so that you can use it on any page. Well, try our unique conversation simulator if you are an intermediate Japanese speaker, or when you are ready to test your kanji skills.

Last but not least, we can't overly emphasize how critical role kanji play in Japanese language. We have observed the kanji skills of visitors made the difference and put their minds at ease on the Japanese streets. With this observation, all of our lessons are centrally geared toward kanji reading so that you'll be ready when you get off an airplane at Narita.
Need Japanese Language Skill Testing Materials?
We produce role playing modules - interactive and audio based on your context, to test the skills.    Japanese-Lessons.net

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Japanese Role Playing Simulator - presents interactive episodes with voice, text and visuals

Train your Japanese ears with interactive visual text, illustration and audio. We provide you with a unique opportunity to practice with Japanese speaking practice partners whether you are in Japan, in your room or on the road.
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MindWood simulates interactive English and Japanese speaking entities. Start an episode (screenshot) and speak to the practice partner by choosing a reply from [SayIt] pulldown list. The dialogue of an episode progresses alternately, introduces dynamic turns, yet is contextually enforced.

While many students study in Japan, you can begin your lessons with MindWood right in your living room. Operation Demonstration


(450 Japanese dialogues)
Japanese - Introduction
SP - Go shopping
TT - Train to Tokyo Disney
PO - Post office
Htl - Hotel checkin
Hos - Doctor's office
Tx - Taxi
Ph - Phone call
Bus - Bus
Res - Restaurant
Tou - City sightseeing
Bir - Birthday present
Job - Japanese job interview

Contents 2 from Alice's; (1400 dialogues)
You've been to overseas?
How was your school today?
Is this my lucky day?
I don't want to study.
I walked family dog.

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Interview (English W/O Japanese translation) :
Japanese dry job interview simulation (280 dialogues), starting with greeting, discussion of resume, and ending with Q & A. Turn on "Japanese Only" for an advanced speaker.
Audrey Hepburn discusses her career, family, war experience.(50 dialogues)
Marilyn Monroe(84 dialogues)
Albert Einstein discusses his career, education system, life philosophy (390 dialogues)
Elvis Plesley(110 dialogues)
Henri Bergson (E)

Dating with Her(200 dialogues)
Dating with Him(200 dialogues)

Japanese-lessons Go shopping Train to Tokyo Disney Post office Hotel checkin Doctor's office visit Where is the taxi stand? Make a phone call Bus trip Japanese restaurant City sightseeing Birthday present? Dry Japanese job interview
Hair Salon Visit
Alice's Contents

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Simulator CTRL option :
English Only
Japanese Only
English with Japanese sub
Japanese with English sub
Text Only
Voice Only
Pardon Me
Take Back
Call Name

Japanese Conversation Simulator Guide


Japanese Alphabet and Kanji Learning Tool

文字
Fortysix phonetically written characters are used in the Japanese alphabet. They are denoted in three set of character representations, namely hiragana, katakana, and romaji. They have specific roles in a sentence.

In addition, Kanji set (big characetrs), representing word, and sounds, are used clarifying the meaning and improving the readability.



Hirakana only sentences are challenging (even for Japanese natives). It cannot be stressed more for any serious students to start Kanji study as early possible, although it'll be tough going until you understand how they are constructed; we have tools to assist your study.

Kanji Study Tools: Jouyou Kanji Table Lookup, Magnification, Draw Sequence, and Audio tools are found in the Tool Box. Use the Table Lookup for cross-referencing.

Kanji Lookup by Draw from Nintendo
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(From Amazon.com)

Japanese Phrase Lessons - Interactive Audio Pages

Learn Japanese phrase lessons. Click the blue letters embedded on the pages, or paste the sentence on an audio box to listen. Complementary Japanese lesson books.Japanese Particles

With hiriakan ruby :
AIUEO Alphabet あいうえお
Getting Wet in Japanese
Greeting あいさつ
Everyday Talk 日常
Post Office 郵便局
Boarding Bus バス
Phone Call 電話

Without ruby:
Getting wet in Japanese 1,2,3
Greeting あいさつ
7W1H Interrogative 疑問詞文
*Everyday Talk 日常 1,2,3
*Hotel ホテル
Finding the Way 道を聞く
Taxi タクシー
Boarding Train 電車
Shopping 買い物
*Restaurant レストラン
Post Office 郵便局
Hair Salon Beauty Parlor
City Touring 市内観光
Hospital Visit 病院
Classroom 授業
Dating デート
Sushi Home Party 寿司パーティ
Hobbies 趣味
Movies 映画
Business Phrases: ビジネス
Company Visit 会社訪問
Tokyo Office 東京支社
*In Office 仕事
In Meeting 会議
At Ryokan Japanese Inns

Intermediate Japanese Speakers:
Construction Mechanics 文型
Conjunction Usages 接続詞
Adverb 副詞
Onomatopoeia 擬音・擬態語
Japanese Proverbs ことわざ
Verb Conjugation 動詞活用
Learn the property of particles. They tell you the strucure of Japanese sentences like the sequencing of words does in English. Needless to say that the ability to understand sentence depends on the ability to recognize the structure. more ..


MindWood Green : Particle Patting Golf Course
Nominative Particle Course 6 Exercise


Particle Patting Hole In One

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Select Particles to complete the sentence
Steps : gallery clear -- > Club (click) the particles of Pool -- > Hole out.
next play - Pick and set a Japanese sentence ramdomly.
gallery clear - Clear gallery and set the particles in the Particle Pool
rained - reset


Particle Pool

 Selection
course 6
course 9
course 26
course 28

Particle Patting

Kanji Read, Write and Draw Exercise

Kanji draw Kanji draw illustrations are attached to all of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade kanji characters. You can look them up by using the search box wherever you are on this site; copy, paste and search. It will lead you to the entry in a jouyou table of 1-6th if found.

Grammar Lessons - Learn particles to construct sentence

Japanese sentences do not follow the ruling of structure/form like English's; the subject, object, and verbs are freely positioned very much in any order that the author feels right. Besides, there is no breaking space between words.
The particles used define the "formless" structure in a sense whatever it is. Japanese exploit the formlessness to express a subtle meaning, by ever tweaking the particles. So you may get haunted if you ignore them.


  • Japanese Sentence Construction - Introduction 入門
  • Japanese Sentence Construction - Subject/Object markers 文構造
  • Japanese Nominative Particles-Object,locative,instrumental markers格助詞
  • Japanese Conjunctive Particles 接続助詞
  • Japanese は[wa] and が[ga] Particles - Usage は、が助詞
  • Japanese Sentence Construction - Interrogative Sentences 疑問文
  • Japanese Verb Conjugation 動詞活用
  • Japanese Causative Verbs 使役動詞
  • Japanese Auxiliary Verb Conjugation 助動詞活用
  • Japanese Adjective Inflection 形容詞活用
  • Conjunction and Usages 接続詞
  • Japanese Counting Units 数える単位
  • if-conditional sentence in Japanese - if 条件文
  • when-conditional sentence in Japanese -when 条件文
  • Japanese Sentence Tense 時制
  • Composing Your Japanese Sentences -a practical approach

  • Beginner's Introductory Japanese Lesson

    Learn and play Japanese number, counting, addition, multiplication. Notice the audio check box is located top right.

    AIUEO Alphabet
    AIUEO Reading
    AIUEO Alphabet Drawing
    Animal Names in Japanese  
    You're a girl.  
    Japanese Counting
    Good Morning

    9 X 5

    3 X 4

    あいうえお

    8 + 5      4 + 7

    11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20


    Japanese Terms

    Learn Japanese vocabulary with eyes and ears. Mariko will speak the word selected. Japanese words are presented in English, hirakana, katakana, and Kanji to assist your learning progress.

    7W1H words 疑問詞
    Animal 動物名 
    Beverage 飲み物 
    Human Body 人体名称 
    Business Terms ビジネス用語
    Office Terms 会社用語
    Color 色名 
    Country & Capitals 国名と首都
    Dates 月日 
    Direction 方位 
    Devices Electrical 電気器具名 
    Emotion 情緒 
    Fruits 果物名 
    Furnitures 家具類 
    Geography 地理 
    Illness 病名 
    Foods 食べ物 
    Kitchen Items 台所用品 
    Mineral 鉱物名 
    Money お金 
    Number 数 
    People/Relationship 人関係 
    Personality 性格 
    Plants 植物名
    Public Offices, Services, Laws  
    School Items 学校関連用語 
    Math Terms  数学用語
    Chemistry Terms  化学用語
    Electrical Terms  電気用語
    Public Signs 標識用語 
    Transportation 運輸手段
    Traveling 旅行用語
    Vegetables 野菜名 
    Wearing 着物類 
    Weather 天気用語 
    Occupation 仕事 
    Pronoun 代名詞 

    Japanese Beginners'
    Intro. Japanese Verb Conjugation 動詞
    Japanese Adjectives 形容詞
    Japanese Adverbs 副詞
    Japanese Onomatopoeia Intro. 擬音語
    Intermediate's
    Japanese Conjunction List 接続詞
    Japanese Idiomatic Expression
    Japanese Onomatopoeia List 擬音語表
    Japanese Verb List 動詞表
    Leg & Hand Movement 手足の動作

    Practice Japanese conversations with Mariko. Interactively speaking is the most effective way to learn any language. We are uniquely equipped. Mariko backed with a context processing system can simulate and respond to you as if you are speaking to a Japanese person. Enjoy our unique language companion.

    Bullet Train (audio clip)

    新幹線(しんかんせん)。日本(にほん)の交通(こうつう)の大動脈(だいどうみゃく)。本州(ほんしゅう)と九州(きゅうしゅう)を縦貫(じゅうかん)して走(はし)る。その主要路線(しゅようろせん)である東海道線(とうかいどうせん)は、東京駅(とうきょう)から、名古屋(なごや)、京都(きょうと)を通(とお)り新大阪駅(しんおおさか)と毎日(まいにち)大量(たいりょう)の旅行客(りょこうきゃく)やビジネスマンを約2時間半(じかんはん)で運(はこぶ)ぶ。海外(かいがい)からの旅行客(りょこうきゃく)も日帰(ひがえ)りで東京(とうきょう)から京都(きょうと)に観光(かんこう)に出(で)かけている。 Shinnkannsenn audio clip

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