Charles Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials

2025 Announcement

Please visit my Japanese Listen and Repeat YouTube channel to find hours of listen-and-repeat and other videos for studying Japanese.

This channel is transparently "text-to-speech" (TTS) and doesn't pretend to be anything else. Both the channel's URL youtube.com/@JapaneseTTS and the channel's profile image clearly indicate this. I listen to the audio carefully before creating videos.

おんせいごうせい

Japanese Listen and Repeat youtube.com/@JapaneseTTS

Here are a few of the playlists that you can preview or watch here.

• Study Japanese with AI Songs
• This is experimental. My feeling is that if AI errors are clearly identified, this can be a fun and useful way to study.
• The music is by AI. (AI sometimes makes pronunciation errors. I have these errors marked in the videos.)
• The text is not by AI. I include the text that I submitted to have AI create the songs.

• This has a wide variety of TTS voices reading sentences from the Tatoeba Corpus.
• On January 10, 2025, there 956 videos.

• This is a project in progress.
• On January 10, 2025, there were 4,600 high-frequency words (roughly up through JLPT N2 level) on the playlist.
• 200 Words Per Video - Clean, Seemless Transitions, No Outros and Intros Between Videos.
• Up to about a little over 4,000 takes about 12 hours of listening.
• Please help me proof-listen to these: Start

This is not a monetized YouTube Channel

• Since I never plan to monetize this channel, I am able to use a number of voices that do not pemit commercial use.
• This also means you that are likely not to see ads. I think sometimes YouTube might put ads before non-monetized videos, though.
• YouTube will direct more people to my videos as I get more subscribers and more "likes," so I appreciate those who do so.

Related Things I Have Created for Other Websites

• How to Speak Nagoya-Ben
  • A Lesson in Speaking the Nagoya Dialect of Japanese
  • A friend and I wrote this for the 名古屋味噌煮込みマガジン.

• English-Japanese Vocabulary Quizzes (iteslj.org/v/j)
  • I wrote the JavaScript code for this website.
  • On this site, you can find some more of my vocabulary quizzes as well as quizzes written by others.

There are things on some of the pages below that do not work anymore.

Some items in the following section were designed to use with Flash which is not longer supported. Until I have a chance to clean up all those pages, please just skip anything that says "Flash."

• Japanese-English Quizzes in Romaji
  • You can use these even if your computer doesn't support Japanese characters.
  • Matching Quizzes and Multiple-choice Quizzes Using Only Romaji

• Japanese Kana Quizzes
  • Hiragana
  • Katakana
  • Multiple-choice Vocabulary Quizzes Using Only Kana

• Kanji Study

• Top 2,000 Kanji List Compiled by Paul Battley in 2003

• CGI Flashcards: Randomly Chosen Japanese Words for Reading Practice
  • Each time you load the page you will get a random selection of words from the 17,155 words using kanji that were marked as commonly-used (P) in EDICT.

• Reading Japanese Signs
  • Practice reading Japanese signs.

• Japanese Language Proficiency Test Vocabulary Lists
  • Vocabulary Multiple-choice Quizzes, Matching Quizzes, and Flashcards.
  • Also, Vocabulary Study Lists Linked to Online Dictionaries

• Daily Startup (Home) Page for Students of Japanese
  • Get 36 kanji characters a day.
    • Choose your own level or as many levels as you would like to cover each day.
    • You'll be able to see all the 1,908 selected kanji characters several times a year.
  • Also included are 3 major English search engines, 3 major Japanese search engines and some Japanese reading tools, so it will make a useful "home" page for you.

• Japanese Reading and Translation Practice
  Read Japanese sentences with kanji introduced in the order of frequency of use.

• Quiz on Words Usually Written in Kana
  A fun challenge even for Japanese native speakers.
• Help with Searches for J-Pop on YouTube.com
  • Easily search musicians' names with [G]oogle or with [Y]ouTube.

• Japanese Word Frequency Lists

• Words from Japanese Newspapers in Order of Frequency
  • Multiple-choice Vocabulary Quizzes Sorted by Frequency of Word Use.
  • The Flash program was updated slightly in January of 2017.

• A Select List of Japanese Language Study Sites
  • I tried to make a list of links limited to just the "very best" sites.

• 四字熟語 - For Advanced Students
  • Yoji Jukugo 1 (402) The Most Commonly-used Ones
  • Yoji Jukugo 2 (301) Less Common - (n, vs)
  • Yoji Jukugo 3 (1756) Less Common - (n)
  • Yoji Jukugo 4 (552) Less Common - Not (n, vs) or (n)
  • Yoji Jukugo 5 (234) Less Common - 2 ways to say or write

• More
  • If you use the menu at the top of the page, you can find other things, too.

Related Things I Have Created for Other Websites

• 毎日の英単語クイズ (Daily English Vocabulary Quizzes)
  • These are quizzes I put online for Japanese who are studying English.
  • Be aware that these are designed for studying English, not Japanese. However, you might find these interesting.

• Matching Quiz: Words You Should Know (362 Dozen)
  • This is a matching quiz I wrote for Japanese who are studying English.
  • There are 362 dozens of matches in the main quiz. Perhaps too many to do at one time, so each time you return to the page, the words are reshuffled generating different matching quizzes.
  • Here are the some of the same words, sorted by level.
    • Words Studied in Junior High School (74 Dozen)
    • Words Studied in High School (81 Dozen)
    • Words Studied in College (111 Dozen)
    • Words for AIT Freshmen (55 Dozen)

• High Frequency English Words with English-Japanese Example Sentences
  I created this for Japanese who are studying English, but you might find it interesting, too.

And More ...

• Japanese Study on an iPad
  I'm adding PDF files of the above project, so you can put them on your iPad for offline reading.

• Anki Decks for Japanese-English Study