Asian Studies LibGuide

Want to start speaking Japanese from your first lesson? You will! Our lessons take you by the hand and guide you through real Japanese conversations. Our teachers slow down and explain every word and phrase. Just imagine... you’ll finally understand every Japanese word you hear. Learning for travel or love? Want to focus on reading, writing, grammar or culture? You get lessons based on your goals and needs.

If you want to learn the Japanese language (or "Nihongo" as it's called in Japanese) online, you've come to the right place! Our lessons can get you well on your way to learning how to speak, read, and write Nihongo. On this site you will find such things as the Japanese alphabet (including Hiragana and Katakana) as well as Kanji (Chinese characters), vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, and common words and phrases. What sets us apart from other Japanese language courses or tutorials is that we actually teach you how to conjugate verbs and how to build your own sentences - things critical to learning how to speak fluently!

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Founded by Kenichi Uchikura & his team of Japanese experts, we provide online access to articles, tutors, and video tutorials for learning Japan’s language and culture

Learn Mandarin Chinese quickly and easily!
40 online lessons with audio, including reading, speaking, writing, modern vocabulary, grammar, calligraphy, examples and exercices. All texts and dialogs in mp3 format for download.

Learn to speak, read and write Chinese

The free online Mandarin Chinese lesson is to give a glimpse of some basic pronunciation to total novices who are interested in learning Mandarin Chinese. By completing all 32 lessons provided here, you should be able to manage basic pronunciation of most of the Chinese characters covered, learn some vocabulary and acquire certain simple Chinese sentence structure.

Chinese isn’t as hard as you think it is, and there are plenty of free resources as well. Scroll down for videos and free lesson materials. For more Chinese language videos, you can always see our YouTube channel, GoEast Mandarin.