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Hiragana & Katakana
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Basic Charts
By clicking each hiragana or katakana in the charts, you can see its stroke order and hear how it is pronounced. Visual clips are provided with hiragana. [by Eri Banno & Akimasa Kinoshita]
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Flash Cards
In each set of exercises, 15 hiragana/katakana are shown one by one. Choose the correct reading for each character from the three options provided. [by Eri Banno]
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Listening Quiz
Choose the character from the three options that represents the sound of hiragana/katakana you listen to. [by Akimasa Kinoshita]
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Concentration Game
Play the “Concentration game” game with online hiragana/katakana cards. [by Akimasa Kinoshita]
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 Usagi-Chan's Genki Resource Page
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/index.html
Resource site for Genki users offering exercises for learning hiragana, katakana and kanji, as well as for the vocabulary appearing in Genki. Hiragana and katakana sections include stroke order movies, drag-and-drop-style exercises, worksheets and flashcards in PDF format. [by Andrea Shea & Kazue Masuyama]
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Kanji
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Kanji Reading Practice
Practice reading all the kanji introduced in the Reading and Writing section. The exercises are prepared lesson by lesson. [by Eri Banno, Yutaka Ohno, Mika Hashimoto and Akimasa Kinoshita]  Practice List
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uPal: Associative Kanji Learning
http://www.sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/icampus/u/ukanji.jsp?m=2
This website offers essential information on every kanji that appear in the major Japanese language textbooks for elementary level. You can easily access kanji that appear in Genki I and II, and learn their reading, meaning, stroke order (animations) and relational kanji knowledge. Kanji Matching Quizzes for these kanji are also offered. [by Joji Miwa (Faculty of Engineering, Iwate University)] |
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Genki Kanji List (Linked to WWKanji)
A list of kanji learned in Genki. Each kanji in the list is linked to WWkanji, a kanji-learning system created by Ms. Saeko Komori at Chubu University. Each kanji page in WWKanji offers information on kanji readings, stroke number and compound words, as well as a QuickTime movie showing stroke order. Kanji List
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Kanji no Renshuu (Kanji Practice)
http://www.KanjiRenshuu.org
This site contains exercises for kanji vocabulary learned in Genki 1, Genki 2 and An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese. Students can choose quiz-type and lesson(s) to practice. They can also choose how much vocabulary from the selected lesson(s) to put into the practice. A kanji vocabulary list for each lesson of the three textbooks are also available. [by Michael Hominick (created for Duke University)]
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KanjiAlive
http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/
Web-based tool to help Japanese-language learners read and write kanji. It contains a database of 1235 kanji. Students can easily search for kanji in a certain lesson of Genki by inputting the lesson number. [by Kanji Alive Team (The University of Chicago)]
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Usagi-Chan's Genki Resource Page
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/index.html
Resource site for Genki users. The kanji section contains stroke order movies, drag-and-drop-style exercises, worksheets and flashcards in PDF format. [by Andrea Shea & Kazue Masuyama]
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Grammar/Conversation
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Genki Movies
The movies in which the phrases from “Greetings” and the conversations in “Dialogue” (L1-L12) are acted out. (10/06/09) Movies for L13-L23 are added.[by Elizabeth Armstrong（Bucknell University）]Movie List
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Verb/Adjective Conjugation Practice
Practice conjugating the verbs and adjectives introduced in the Dialogue and Grammar section. Contains 16 exercises for such conjugations as negative form, past form, dictionary form, masu-form, te-form, passive form and causative form. [by Eri Banno, Yutaka Ohno and Akimasa Kinoshita] Practice List
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MyKikitori--Practice Your Japanese Listening Skills 
http://mykikitori.com/
A listening practice site which contains original dialogues based on the grammar and vocabulay introduced in Genki I. Two speeds, natural and slow, are available for each dialogue, and all the dialogues are accompanied by comprehension questions in audio format.
[by Aiko Sato (San Francisco State University)]
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Particle Exercises
http://www.all.umn.edu/japanese_language/class_materials/particle_exercise/index.html
This site contains fill-in-the-blank exercises for the particles that appear in each lesson of Genki I. A reference chart of how each particle is used is also available. [by Yukimi Fukumoto under the supervision of the Japanese Language Program at the University of Minnesota]
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Vocabulary
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Vocabulary Exercises
| Choose the correct meaning from three options for the given words or expressions.
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 GreetingsPractice for expressions learned in the “Greetings” section. [by Yutaka Ohno]
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Vocabulary (Lesson 1)Practice for the vocabulary introduced in Lesson 1 of the Dialogue and Grammar section. [by Yutaka Ohno]
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Choose the number or time from three options that match the sound you listen to.
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Suuji (Numbers) Listening QuizListening quiz for numbers (Lesson 1). [by Akimasa Kinoshita]
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Jikan (Time) Listening QuizListening quiz for expressions of time (Lesson 1). [by Akimasa Kinoshita]
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Genki Exercises
http://oldweb.lyon.edu/webdata/users/mpeek/JapanWebpages/GenkiExercises.htm
This site provides a variety of vocabulary exercises for all the lessons of Genki, including exercises to match words with their meanings, to choose the correct meanings, and to find the words or particles to fill in the blank, etc. It also includes quizzes for matching hiragana and katakana. [by Mieko U. Peek]
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Usagi-Chan's Genki Resource Page
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/index.html
Resource site for Genki users. The vocabulary section provides word lists for all the lessons and exercises for meanings or readings of the vocabulary. [by Andrea Shea & Kazue Masuyama]
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