German for Japanese: study guides and learning resources
Note: Although this is the German Forum, I post in English for all the Japanese who want to learn German, OK? And sorry for the size of this post m(-_-)m
There are so many doitsugo links for Japanese learning German, I can't believe learning German is that popular.
Here are just a "few"
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German for beginners - a sneak peek
The famous German language course on NHK TV:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/gogaku/german/index.html
Quick introduction:
http://www.econ.keio.ac.jp/staff/sakai/hu/
Much quicker introduction:
http://www.ns.kogakuin.ac.jp/~d101563/de.html
For first time learners:
http://www.human.niigata-u.ac.jp/~language/allemand.html
The Merry Project (multimedia site):
http://www.21merry.net
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Information about Germany, German and much more
Lessons, audio examples, grammar etc.:
http://www.euroassist.de/germany3.htm
doitsugo FAQ:
http://sendai.cool.ne.jp/mirkka/institut/germanfaq.html
Lots of helpful information about Europe and Germany:
http://de-jp.blume4.net/index.html
German kitchen:
http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~mikado/
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Studying German
Interesting page, covering doitsugo and everything related:
http://www.doitsugo.com/
Another page here:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/yuki_k/deutsch/deutsch.html
Tipps on how to study German:
http://www.kamogamo.com/jp/deutsch/howtostudy.html
How's your German? Take the test here:
http://www.transparent.com/tlquiz/proftest/german/tlgertest.htm
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Blogs about doitsugo
The famous "Haa tschi!" blog:
http://himawari.blogtribe.org/
Another blog:
http://germany.exblog.jp/
And some kind of diary:
http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/freiburg/
Another diary:
http://www.tiara.cc/~germany/topics/vhs/vhs.html
...and again a diary:
http://www.monkeymagic.com/index.html
German Garden, some kind of diary(?):
http://germanml.fc2web.com/index.html
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For the "serious" student
Community site for the serious doitsugo student:
http://www.doitsu.co.jp/index.php
And don't be surprised to find Meggle Butter in Japan
Supporting links and tipps for learning German:
http://gaikoku.info/german/index.htm
A student's personal selection - learning material (at Amazon Japan) :
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/3FJ9O0EGZYCJP/249-7879297-9971520
For people already studying German:
http://www.euroassist.de/language/learners.htm
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German movies
A recommendation:
http://www.kamogamo.com/jp/deutsch/film/filmTR.html
More German movie tipps:
http://ho47.jugem.cc/
More movies at Amazon Japan:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/3OGL5G8URXOYJ/249-7879297-9971520
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If the above links were not helpful enough, explore the links on the following pages.
Dozens of links about doitsugo, doitsu, benkyou and ryuugaku on these pages:
http://www.tufs.ac.jp/ts/personal/narita/n_link.htm
http://www.ohnichi.de/Link/link7.htm
http://www.alles.or.jp/~heidel/index.html
http://www.languagecourse.net/discount-ryugaku/german-for-business.php3
http://www.languagecourse.net/discount-ryugaku/
http://www.learn-in-germany.com/jp/
http://www.geocities.jp/asasuke2003/index_japanisch.htm
http://dir.goo.ne.jp/education/02826/02831/
http://de-jp.blume4.net/link/de_4.html
http://home.q05.itscom.net/joe/index.html
http://joe.ciao.jp/lernen/lernen.html
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Wordprocessors: Japanese/English/German
Casio XD-L7150 with audio output (speaks German!) :
http://www.casio.co.jp/exword/product/product/xd_l7150/
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001KA8J2/yasken-22/249-7879297-9971520
Casio XD-H7100 -> NO audio output! :
http://www.casio.co.jp/exword/product/product/xd_h7100/
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001KA8GA/qid=1095300572/249-7879297-9971520
Seiko SR-T7010:
http://speed.sii.co.jp/pub/cp/cp/ProductPage.jsp?recordID=1250&subCAT=101
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As I said, there were much more pages about learning German for Japanese.
How I found these pages? I found 90% in one go, only by asking Google for "doitsugo benkyou" (written in Japanese)! That's all, so simple.
Feel free to send me an e-mail if there are any questions regarding this post.
rakuten