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	Dictionaries and Thesauri Japanese Jim Breen’s Japanese-English Dictionary Server http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html Sanseido Japanese<-->English http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/cgi-bin/je-top.cgi Bard Library "Asia" search http://www.bard.edu/Library/search/subject.php?subject=asia English A Web of On-line Dictionaries http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Biggest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing 230 languages); site also offers linguistic "Fun & Games" (From 'Historical Linguistic Games ' to 'On-line Vocabulary Quizzes') Wiktionary http://www.wiktionary.org/ Free multilingual content dictionary Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/ Free multilingual encyclopedia Lexical FreeNet http://www.lexfn.com/ Connected Thesaurus. Easy to use database that allows you to search for relationships between words, concepts and people. Very powerful with features lacking in other thesauri. Links and Resources for Writers http://www.jbwb.co.uk Jacqui Bennett's Writers Bureau. Constantly updated and reviewed very useful reference links: Encyclopedia Britannica, rhyhming dictionaries, on-line English grammar and searchable quotation collections. Merriam Webster Online http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm The reference classic - fast reliable site
	CDs, Videos and Books For a list of CDs, DVDs, videos, etc. available in the CFLC search our online database: http://inside.bard.edu/blrc/database/ Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com Mainstream videos and DVDs, including most available popular foreign feature film titles. Film MovieFacts Online http://www.eonline.com/Facts/Movies/ 0,60,71107,00.html Find out about your film's running time, release date, director, reviews etc. FACETS http://www.facets.org The single best source for international cinema on video and DVD. The FACETS catalog includes both feature films and documentary works. Kino International http://www.kino.com A small but important collection of international cinema, including seminal works of Weimar film. Excellent print reproductions; many restored versions. Kino titles are also available through most of general video distributors. Music Japanese Music Overview http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/ japan/japmusic.html Looking at traditional art and folk music and contemporary music. Japanese Guide to Music http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2113.html Basic information and english links. Japanese Music Directory http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/japanese_ directory_detail.php?category_id=5 Directory of web sites featuring Japanese music including shakuhachi & Japanese drums. J-Music http://www.j-music.com/ Homepage for Japanese excellent musicians, especially jazz and Hougaku, Japanese traditional music. Books Kinokuniya New York Bookstore http://www.kinokuniya.com/newyork/ Asahiya Bookstore http://www.asahiyausa.com/store.html Harvard Yenching Library http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching/ Princeton East Asian Library and the Gest Collection http://libweb2.princeton.edu/gest/ Columbia University C.V. Starr East Asian Library http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/ Yale University East Asia Library http://www.library.yale.edu/eastasian/ The Asian & Middle-Eastern Division: The New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/ort/ort.html Iwanami Shoten http://www.iwanami.co.jp/ Tuttle Publishing http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/ Kodansha International http://www.kodansha.co.jp/English/ Japan Times Book Club http://bookclub.japantimes.co.jp/english/index.html
	Language Learning Ornniglot: A Guide to Writing Systems http://www.omniglot.com/ Information on both living and dead languages, scripts,, alphabetic writing systems, syllabic writing systems, logographic writing systems, alternative writing systems, a bibliography, free downloadable fonts, a searchable index arranged by names of languages (where the most complete information is to be found), and a brief annotated bibliography. Contains visual examples of writing systems. Information on the Chinese language is found in the index not under "Chinese" but under names of several Chinese regional languages, including Cantonese, Chaozhou, and Mandarin. Genki Online Flash Cards http://www.genki-online.com/js/index.html WORD CHAMP! LISTEN, W& STUDY VOCABULARY! http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua/ MainMenu.do This amazing multi-media program helps students of all ages learn foreign languages. WordChamp™,uses audio, flashcards, and website annotation to help students learn foreign language vocabulary more effectively than traditional methods. it includes translation, Audio translation, Dictation, Translating Aloud, Reading Practice, and Pronunciation Drills. Word Champ flashcards work in Arabic, English, German, Hebrew, Italian,Korean, French, Spanish and Japanese (no audio yet for Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Korean as of 02/05) with more languages in the works. You must become a member to have access to some exercises and a premium member for audio access.Please contact Stephanie Kufner for a Bard premium membership. Kanji Writing Tutor http://members.aol.com/writejapan/#kanji Kanji Flash Cards http://www.rikai.com/perl/Card.pl Fun Words in Japanese http://www.thejapanesepage.com/fun.htm Kanji Lists http://www.thejapanesepage2.com/kanji/kanjimenu.htm
	Culture C.I.A. Japan Fact Book http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ja.html Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/English/ Stage0/S0-5E.html Edo-Tokyo Museum http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/english Nara National Museum http://www.narahaku.go.jp/index_e.html Miho Museum http://www.miho.or.jp/english/index.htm Kyoto National Museum http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/indexe.htm Tokyo National Museum http://www.tnm.jp/jp/servlet/Con?pageId=X00/processId=00 National Museum of Japanese History http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/index_ne.html Hôsei University Exhibition of Pre-War Political Posters http://oohara.mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp/english/index.html Museums in Japan http://www.dnp.co.jp/museum/icc-j.html Arts and Architecture Buddhist Meditational Art Online Exhibition http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/circleofbliss/index.html An online version of a museum exhibition of 160 images with didactic text and graphics. Arranged in thirteen thematic sections, ncluding Buddhist Cosmology, Refuge of the Three Jewels, Bodhisattvas, Benevolent Protectors, etc. Images of officially-designated National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties: http://www.emuseum.jp/ Japanese Art in the Asia Society Collection http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/japan/standard.html Japanese Architecture in Kansai http://www.kansai.gr.jp/culture/ The Japanese Garden Database http://www.jgarden.org/ Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery http://www.asia.si.edu/ British Museum Department of Oriental Antiquities http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/oa/oahome.html Metropolitan Museum Department of Asian Art http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep= Boston Museum of Fine Arts – Arts of Asia, Oceania, and Africa http://www.mfa.org/artemis/collections/ Maps Maps of Japan http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/jpnmap.htm Performing Arts Information The International Noh Institute http://conc.civil.okayama-u.ac.jp/~ono/INI/gateway.html Japan Performing Arts Net http://www.jpan.org/ Kabuki for Everyone http://www.fix.co.jp/kabuki/ Shochiku Kabuki Performance Information http://www.shochiku.co.jp/play/index.html Noh Masks http://www.pasar5.com/NOH_MASK/mlist.html Gagaku – Japanese Court Music and Dance http://www.gagaku.net/index.html Waseda University Tsubouchi Shôyô Memorial Theatre Museum http://www.waseda.ac.jp/enpaku/index-e.html Media NHK Japanese Broadcasting Corporation http://www.nhk.or.jp/ Back Issues of Shisô With Editor’s Introduction http://www.iwanami.co.jp/shiso/index.html Shûkan Asahi http://www.kinyobi.co.jp/ Aera http://www.asahi.com/column/aic/Mon/aera.html Asahi Shinbun http://www.asahi.com/ Yomiuri Shinbun http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/ Nihon Keizai Shinbun http://www.nikkei.co.jp/ The Japan Times Online http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ Kansai Time Out http://www.kto.co.jp Time Out: Tokyo http://www.timeout.com/tokyo/ AN AN (Women’s Magazine) http://anan.magazine.co.jp/
	Literature Digital Books Index http://www.digitalbookindex.com/ The Digital Book Index provides access to more than 80,000 titles records from more than 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 48,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost. Draws on the digital books projects of Project Gutenberg and those at individual institutions and university presses. This is a commercial undertaking but access to some 48,000 of the 80,000-plus titles listed is free. Requires logging in. Includes a number of English-language books on Asia, as graphics or text, such as History of European Botanical Discoveries in China (2 vols., 1898). From the Japan Foundation: Databasen on Japanese Literature in Translation http://www.jpf.go.jp/cgi-bin/jlsearch/jlsearch_e.cgi Kyoto University: Texts and Images: http://ddb.libnet.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/index.html The University of Virginia Library Japanese Text Initiative http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/index.htm Aozora Bunko Online Japanese Literary Texts http://www.aozora.gr.jp/ Text Database of the Japanese Buddhist Canon (Taishô Tripitaka) http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sat/index.html McClellan’s Translation of Kokoro http://www.eldritchpress.org/ns/soseki.html Pre-Modern Japanese Studies Online Literary Resources http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/resources.html LiTGloss http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/list-of-texts/shtml The LiTgloss project is a collection of texts written in languages other than English. The texts are of literary, cultural, or historical interest to speakers of English, and likely (we think) to be better appreciated if read in the original language. Our goal is to make them accessible by providing semantic and syntactical help, and to provide supplementary materials which help the students see the text in its literary, artistic, historical, cultural context. Japanese text available from Akutawaga. Japanese Bibliography – Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/index.htm Bibliography of Asian Studies http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/b/bas/ Bibliography of Translations of Classical Japanese Literature http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/trans/trans.html Book Reviews of Studies in Premodern/Early Modern Japan http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/biblio/reviews.htm Premodern Japanese Studies http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/
	Bibliography and Citation Citing Internet Sources in Papers http://www.uta.fi/FAST/PP3D/citing.html General Research and Documentation http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/ MLA Bibliography http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/ library/mla.html MLA Citation Examples http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/ library/mlahcc.html MLA Style Electronic Formats http://www.westwords.com/guffey/mla.html
	Resources and Quizmakers The Realia Project http://realiaproject.org/ Rich electronic archive for language instruction anywhere: publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures. Moodle http://moodle.org A free open-source course-management system to help teachers create online communities Kanji Alive http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/main.php?page=overview&lang=en Kanji alive is a searchable, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners read and write kanji. It is freely available, cross-platform, and does not require any Japanese fonts. Asian Studies Virtual Library http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html Japanese in Microsoft XP Professional http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/planning/multilingual/ Duke University Japanese Studies Resources http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/japanesestudies.html Computing in Japanese http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html#links_japancomp J-Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources http://jguide.stanford.edu/ Jobs Teaching English in Japan http://www.eltnews.com/jobs/index.shtml Asia for Educators http://afe.easia.columbia.edu Produced by the Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum. Has online teaching guides (Asia in Western and World History; Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective; Asia: Case Studies in the Social Sciences; guides to particular primary sources), classroom materials available by subject and by type (including lesson plans, timelines, maps, key points & central themes, multimedia units, cartoons & illustrations). Agenda Asia http://www.iias.nl/gateway/news/ agasia/index.html A cooperative service from the European Alliance for Asian Studies, this is an online listing of Asian studies conferences, work-shops, and seminars. The meetings are arranged by geographic area (East Asia, Southeast Asia, etc.). New meeting information can be submitted online for inclusion in Agenda Asia and in the Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies. Area Resources The Mid-Hudson Japanese Community Association http://www.hudsonwebworks.com/mhjca/ Consulate General of Japan in New York http://ny.cgj.org/ The Japan Foundation New York Office http://www.jfny.org/jfny/index.html Japan Society http://www.japansociety.org/ Asia Society http://www.asiasociety.org/ Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/ Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/dkc/ Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/imjs/ Kyoto University Research Center for Japanese Garden Art http://www.kyoto-art.ac.jp/~j-gar/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sackler/index.htm Quizmakers Create your own online vocabulary lists, flashcards, class websites and quizzes! http://www.quia.com Create activites (word lists, flashcards, matching games etc.), class websites, and amazing online quizzes (including multiple choice, pop-up, fill-in, short answer and essay questions with easy links to ANY online source), create class rosters and have easy access to tests, students' scores, time spent on tests etc. ; licence fee required for instructors (not for students) Bard has licences for 10 instructors; for information contact kufner@bard.edu Pics Tips and Treats http://www.uiowa.edu/~pics/tips.html Guidelines to work with video in language teaching Software for Learning http://www.cict.co.uk/software/ teaching.htm Downloadable programs for use in the classroom or at home . Interesting: Markin a program which replaces the traditional teacher's red pen with a complete on-screen marking environment, is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments. Create exercises, quizzes, tests http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html Find many links to a great variety of online exercises and quiz-makers, FL self-test sites and more. Interactive Exercise Maker http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/ index.htm These pages are intended for use by educational institutions to use as a model. Teachers are encouraged to try out cloze, match and gloss makers, and then save copies locally. The multimaker, for example, allows you to enter as many multiple choice questions in an exercise as you like. Include your own title, instructions and individualized feedback for each answer.
	Placement Tests Nihongo nôryoku shiken (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) http://www.jflalc.org/proftest/index.html JETRO Business Japanese Proficiency Test http://www.jetro.go.jp/it/e/bj/1test.html Goethe Language Tests http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/ FREE tests in 25 languages and 600 language combinations. Multilingual vocabulary exercises / language tests in Arabic Bulgarian Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Serbian Spanish Swedish Turkish
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