宇宙教育テレビ ・ Space Education TV

On this Space Education TV website, you can access over 100 recorded live stream of science news! This site is geared toward young kids but is a perfect study tool for Japanese language learners, too. The hosts don't speak too fast and often pause. Also the terminology used, even though its science-related, isn't too complicated because it is for kids understanding. If you enjoy science, want to see the culture of Japan's education and classrooms, or you want to work on your listening comprehension, this site has hours and hours of educational information for your ears.

Just scroll down and click on one of the 100+ video stream links!

Daily Yomiuri News Site

Pera Pera Penguin was a great place for access to grammar lessons! It seems yomiuri.co.jp changed their English website and along with it disappeared all of the Pera Pera Penguin Japanese lessons. Luckily, this Polish website has 88 of the 100 available for download. For those that haven't read these, they are 1 page quick lessons on various topics in Japanese. For example #50 deals with onomatopoeia like どきどき (feeling nervous) and ごろごろ (lie around). Despite being one page, they are surprisingly complete with examples, English explanations, and even a few exercises with answers provided. I recommend downloading all of them since it is uncertain whether or not yomiuri.co.jp will republish them.

You could also access those 88 PDFs here! ^_^

NHK Radio News

No matter what level you are you can still benefit from listening to the daily news on NHK Radio News. Up your vocabulary and learn about current news and events in Japan. You really don't need to be able to read Japanese to get your listening practice here. Just click on the speaker symbol on the left to start up a station. Of course you can recognize the Flash Player and Windows Media player symbol. Even 10 minutes each day while you eat your breakfast will surely help to UP your listening ability! 　Click on ふつう at the top to hear nws at normal speed. ゆっくり slows down the track to a slower speed. はやい speeds up the track so that it is faster than normal speed.