Also Try Awesome Library in Japanese (Requires Japanese font.) Lesson Plans Japanese Culture (Liskowsky) Provides a lesson on Japanese culture, a trip to Japan. 4-00 Lists Japanese Resources (iLoveLanguages - Chambers) Provides lessons, dictionaries, translation guides, news, and literature. 1-02 Japanese Search Engine (MSN) Provides Web searches in Japanese. 6-00 Materials -Online Translator (WorldLingo.com) Provides online translations between English, Greek, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Japanese for up to 150 words. 04-08 -See and Hear Web Pages in English, Japanese, or Other Languages (Awesome Library) Awesome Talkster allows you to hear Web pages. You can, for example, set the voice to Japanese and start with www.awesomelibrary.org/Japanese.html to see and hear the Web in Japanese. By adding a voice to Web pages, children and teens can learn to pronounce words as they read them. Awesome Talkster includes an animated character, providing synchronized highlighting so that children can follow along even more easily. This multi-sensory approach is a powerful method for improving reading skills. Online books for children and teens to practice their reading skills are available in the Awesome Library. 1-03 Japanese-English Dictionary (Breen - Peterson) Translates English words into Japanese and gives alternative contexts. Does not require Japanese fonts to be downloaded. 6-00 Multilingual Text-to-Speech Engines (Microsoft) Provides free programs that convert online text to speech in Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, and British English. The free voice engines vary in their quality. Some are not very good. For instance, the Korean voice does not seem to recognize the Korean fonts. The Spanish voice, however, reads text written in Spanish in an understandable way. Requires software to connect the voice programs with a browser. Such a program is available for free here. 9-02 Papers Japanese Encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org) Provides over 10,000 articles in the language. 12-04 Purchase Resources Japanese Books Search (Amazon.co.jp) Provides searches in Japanese. Requires the Japanese font. 6-02

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