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Commercial sites for learning Japanese include: pimsleur, coscom, yesjapan, worldwide learn and learn japanese.

These free Internet sites may be useful: japanese online, thejapanese page, sabotenweb, about, learn japanese, nihongo, tumbleweed, hikyaku, 43things and academicinfo.

Japanese-English-Japanes dictionaries are at: freedict, monash, jeffrey's, online dictionary, babelfish, kanjinetworks and jekai.

Machine translation can be helpful, though you will need some grammar to correct the rendering: omnilang, free translation, ibm, google, babelfish, systran and worldlingo.

Some useful language exchanges: friends abroad, xlingo, mylanguage exchange, polyglot learn language, and lingozone.

Japanese Poetry


Haiku is thriving in many countries: Japan, USA, France, Germany, Russia, Ireland and elsewhere.

Haiku poetry bibliographies can be found on haikuworld and insouthsea.

Recommended books include: R.H. Blythe's The History of Haiku (1963-4), S.H. Gill and C. Andrew's Rediscovering Basho (1999), L. Downer's On the Narrow Road: Journey into a Lost Japan, R. Aitken's A Zen Wave:Basho's Haiku and Zen (1979), W.J. Higginson's The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share and Teach Haiku (1985), A Hidden Pond: Anthology of Modern Haiku (1997) and W.J. Higginson's The Haiku Seasons (1997).

See here for a brief history of Japanese literature, here for contemporary arts in Japan and here for an extensive list of magazines publishing haiku.

 

 

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