BB Super Sound ・ JAPANESE Karaoke

BB Super Sound brings Japanese-style karaoke right to your home with FREE online access! With more than 3,000 tunes, there is a wide song selection available here. The most popular tunes include artists such as AKB48, Kyari PamuPamu, Utada Hikaru, Arashi, Morning Musume, and GReeeeN.

Click the orange カラオケ button to begin. You can search by artist via the アーティスト名 field and you can enter the song title in the field marked 曲名. You should note: If you are searching for Arashi, for example, you can only find this artist if you type 嵐. Typing あらし or "Arashi" wont produce any results. Once results are produced, a red Play symbol, when clicked, will work on your computer. You can enjoy a karaoke screen with lyrics and background movie as if you were in an actual karaoke room in Japan. As for the blue Play buttons, those are MIDI files which require an ".mlr" player that seems to be available only in Asian countries. In other words, unless you have a MIDI file player on your computer these songs most likely won't be accessible.

Kawasaki International Culture Exchange ・ Weekly PENPAL Newsletter

The Weekly PenPal Newsletter is perfect for you if you would like to make friends from Japan. The weekly pen pal news letter is FREE! A penpal list is sent out to your email 4 times per month. This lists includes penpals of all ages from around the world. Many of them are from Japan!

Interested in Japan culture? Traveling to Japan? Want to receive snail mail letters written in Japanese? Create long-lasting friendships with someone through this culture exchange site.

Some people prefer snail mail to Email. Some are eager to send you something like a photo, letter, and maybe even a small souvenir!

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Japanese Nihongo - Conversation

This is a page directed from Japanese-nihongo.com which lists a variety of different conversation topics for beginners including but not limited to introductions, first visit to Japan, taking the train, and getting lost. These conversation lessons are geared towards beginner and intermediate students of Japanese. Options for viewing the lessons may be in HTML webpage form, or PDF or DOC which you can download and save to your computer. In many cases, there are audio files included which play in your web browser.

If you click the Home link at the top of the page, you can find a link which directs you to entries--including some written in Japanese that you can study. There is also links for more conversation dialogues, JLPT, and essays. If you are ready for advance level, I think you will also like reading these.

生活日本語会話 - Japanese Life Conversation

Sekatsu Nihongo Kaiwa is a site of collected example conversations offered by a Taiwanese university. While the accompanied sound files seem to broken, intermediate and advanced speakers can find a wide variety of example conversations here for speaking practice with topics ranging from self-introduction to shopping expressions to apologizing for something.  The readings for each Kanji character is also provided here. If you're using Rikaichan, words can be interpreted despite the use of parentheses.

As for beginners, if you don't mind the absence of English on this site you might also find this site useful to you. The pronunciation practice located at the bottom of the page could be most helpful to you.

Interpals - Language Exchange

InterPals is the premiere online community for meeting pen pals, language partners, travel buddies or just plain old fashioned friends!It's totally FREE!