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AAA ... World Kigo Databasee, LINK collection for KIGO
Kiyose, Saijiki and more
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/links/KIGO___Kiyose_and_Sa_001087608594/
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AUSTRALIA
Culture Information
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/.
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Acronym Finder
the web's most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/
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BIRD finder
bird song from around the world
http://www.whatbird.com/
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Bangladesh, Bangla Fonts
LINKS to Bangladesh Poetry
http://www.cyberbangladesh.org/literature.html
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Bilingual Haiku to study as translation exercises.
Kageyama Noriko. Kokusai Haiku Kooryuukai .
http://www.alpha-club.org/page03_01/
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Buddhist Terms . Glossary
Rather short explanations.
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/b_gloss2.htm
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Buddhist Terms. Glossary
Basic terms.
http://dharma.ncf.ca/faqs/glossary.html
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ENGLISH : Japanese and other languages. Online
free dictionary,
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html
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ENGLISH : Japanese. Online. Not very extensive.
Just start typing in your latin letters, say H A I K U ...
http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary/translate.html
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ENGLISH, Japanese, Thai, and many more
Multiple Bilingual Dictionary Search and Compilation Service . VERY extensive !!!
http://dict.longdo.org/?search=
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ESPERANTO
(afaik) haikai no renga (renku) in Esperanto .. and more
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translatinghaiku/message/211
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Edo Gaku, Studies about Old Edo
List with books on the subject (Japanese)
http://homepage3.nifty.com/butainudenka/edogaku.html
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English/Japanese for CHILDREN
Enchanted Learning. with many illustrations !
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languages/japanese/Aisfor.shtml
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Ethymology : Wikipedia
with more links at the end
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology
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Etymology Dictionary
explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
http://www.etymonline.com
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Food of Japan, by Naomichi Ishige
Detailed cultural history.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldkigolibrary/message/189
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Furigana / inserting it in a web page
Tips on how to do it.
http://www.filemaker.com/help/05-Create%20a%20database23.html
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Furigana Converter. ONLINE
Convert Web Page Kanji to Furigana!
http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/j/furigana.html
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GERMAN : English. Online LEO
Deutsch-Englisches Woerterbuch. Other languages too.
http://dict.leo.org/
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GERMAN : Japanese. Online
wadoku.de . Japanisch-Deutsches Woerterbuch
http://www.wadoku.de/
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GRAMMAR of the Japanese Language
Learn Japanese ONLINE. Very good for beginners !
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/grammarpage.php
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HEPBURN : Meiji Gakuin
Japanese / English / Online Dictionary
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/mgda/index5b_j.html
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History : what happened on this day ?
from BBC UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm
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INDIA Templenet . Amazing collection of knowledge
The Ultimate Source of Information on Indian Temples
http://www.indiantemples.com/
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INSECTS with many photos
What is that bug ?
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/neuropterans.html
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JAPANESE : Kanji Dictionary
Yamasa Institute. With English and other languages.
http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/MainPage?OpenForm
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JAPANESE : Kanji Gold
a free flexible MS Windows(TM) flash card program for learning Japanese Kanji.
http://web.uvic.ca/kanji-gold/
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JAPANESE : Kanji Learning
For Beginners, a FUN page.
http://www.japan.com/study/japanese/quiz/index.php
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JAPANESE : WEBLIO kokugo jiten, ruigo jiten
and phrases and more
http://www.weblio.jp/
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JAPANESE : Yahoo Language Package
Kokugo, Ruigo, Eigo and a few new updates ... very useful !
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/
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JAPANESE : decipher text online
Read foreign language web sites with pop-up hints by moving the mouse over words you want to lookup!
http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx
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JAPANESE : google package
Kokugo, Ei-Wa, Wa-Ei
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/
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JAPANESE : personal names of authors
Meiji & Taisho Periods
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~sdomier/PL/PL801-819.html
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JAPANESE : personal names of people
Nihon Zatsuroku = Japanese Names =
http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/names.html
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JAPANESE ; Synonyms Online
Ruigo Jiten (thesaurus) members only
http://www.gengokk.co.jp/thesaurus/
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JAPANESE Dictionary of Word Origin
Gogen Yurai Jiten / Gengo Jiten
http://gogen-allguide.com/
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JAPANESE Language Learning . from the BASICS
Simple explanations. very much recommended for beginners !!
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/grammarpage.php
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JAPANESE: DHC translation service
with LINKS to more online translation services
http://www.kotoba.ne.jp/
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JAPANESE: Japanese Language Study Materials
by Charles Kelly. a LIST of LINKS
http://www.manythings.org/japanese/
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Japanese : Monash University Language material
LINKS to other info. Various languages. Packages to download.
http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/
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Japanese English : Denshi Jisho
Various functions to study KANJI too.
http://jisho.org/
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Japanese English : General and including technical and medical terms.
GLOVA
http://trans.glova.jp/index.php
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Japanese English Dictionary !!!!!
Meiji Gakuin. Reprinted version to browse
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/mgda/index2_j.html
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Japanese Software Wordprocessors
LINKS to various sources.
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/j_main.html
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Japanese->English kanji translator (ONLINE)
Kanji by kanji translator, basing on many good dictionaries. THE BEST !
http://www.rikai.com/
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Japanese-English translator (ONLINE)
Translates only kanji and hiragana, no romaji
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
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Japanese-Polish dictionary (ONLINE)
Strange system of notation both Japanese and Polish characters, but useful
http://pingwin.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
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KANJI : Converters for some languages, mostly English
LINK list to more kanji tools . Chinese Character Support.
http://kanjidict.stc.cx
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KANJI : Kanji Gym / in German
Der Verlag Vittorio Klostermann und James W. Heisig präsentieren Ihnen diese praktische und effektive Lernsoftware.
http://www.kanjigym.de/main/cms/cms.html
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KANJI : Reviewing the Kanji
following James W. Heisig's method called "Remembering the Kanji".
http://kanji.koohii.com/
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KANJI : the basic ones with compounds
THE JOOYOO KANJI. Michale Haldane
http://www.michaelhaldane.com/KanjiLink.htm
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KANJI Decipering Online : Rikai Chan
Needs firefox to work with, you have to download Rikai chan, but it is MOST HELPFUL !!!
http://www.polarcloud.com/rchow
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KANJI converter
to Hiragana, Romaji, English !!!
http://www.j-talk.com/nihongo/
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KANJI learning
(c) Leo Hourvitz: Read Japanese Today
http://www.stoneschool.com/Japan/nihongo/KanjiByPg.html
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KANJI: Kanji Curiosity!
by Eve Kushner, California
http://www.evekushner.com/writing/?page_id=81
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KANJI: Wiki
Kanji Wiki is designed to be a site where students and teachers can submit their ideas to remember kanji.
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/KanjiWiki/
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KANJI: adding furigana online. Hiragana Megane.
This system adds hiragana on the kanji.
http://www.hiragana.jp/en/
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Library, International Public Library
for general information
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48468
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Multilingual Dictionary
Direct search access to many language dictionaries !
http://www.dictjuggler.net/
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Multilingual translator (ONLINE)
Japanese, English, German, Russian, Polish, etc.
http://www.1-800-translate.com/machine_trans/
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ONLINE dictionaries etc (Japanese)
LINK collection
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000022/unixdic/tbl3-web.html
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Onomatopoetic Words
japanese / english. well defined
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=793155
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Onomatopoetic Words / Theory and practise
Overview
http://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/12/onomatopoetic-words.html
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PLANT names in many languages. University of Melbourne
MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE : search engine
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
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Poets Names / The Japanese Literature Home Page
and other literature resources in English
http://www.jlit.net/authors_works/author_index/modern_authors_a_to_i.html
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Romaji (roomaji)
Spelling and the Hepburn System. Gabi Greve
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2000/07/spelling-and-hepburn-system.html
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SANSKIRT : online dictionary
with LINKs to others
http://sanskrit.gde.to/dict/
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SANSKRIT : Explanation of terms
More. Devasthanam is the website of the Sanskrit Religions Institute.
http://www.sanskrit.org/www/Sanskrit/sanskritterms.htm
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SANSKRIT : Learn it online. The tutor - freely downloadable
SanskritaPradipika - a little lamp for Sanskrit.
http://www.sanskrit-lamp.org/
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SANSKRIT : List of words. S and E
Online Sanskrit Dictionary project.
http://sanskrit.gde.to/dict/dictall.txt
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SEARCH engine
Easy to search for phrases
http://www.dogpile.com.
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SEARCH for WORDS and synonyms
Michael Quinlion
http://www.worldwidewords.org.
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Science Encyclopedia
English
http://science.jrank.org/
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Shinto Basic Terms
Explanations with some photos. ABC ...
http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/bts/index1.html
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Shinto Terms Glossary
Glossary of Shinto Names and Terms
http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/glossary/index2.html
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Synonyms Thesaurus (Japanese Digital BOOK)
Digital Dictionary (http://www.gengokk.co.jp )
http://www.junglejapan.com/products/ruigo/04/g/index.html
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Synonyms Thesaurus European Languages
Wortschatz Lexikon etc.
http://www.language-learning.net/hp_1160_22_2.html
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Untranslatability, from Wikipedia
Some words are hard to translate !
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldkigolibrary/message/219
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VOCABULARY resources, thesaurus
with Dictionary Directory, Word Quests and more
http://www.wordfocus.com/vocabulary-resources.html
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World Kigo Database / Gabi Greve, Japan
Kigo and Keywords in many languages. With detailed explanations.
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/
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ZEN-related material : thezensite
a wide variety of materials about Zen
http://www.thezensite.com/index.html
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