Great Japanese Language Learning Tool: Livemocha!

Yesterday late night somebody twitted me a link to www.livemocha.com. Today I returned to find out more and fell in love!

The site is simply great.
And it's free.
And lessons are fun.
And you can find language partners in minutes.
And... ...just too many things I love!



I found 10+ native Japanese interesting in learning Russian! Two were online while I was there, and one got my review of his russian exercise.

The only flaw I noticed was that some tests report "wrong" even if it's right because of double instance of the same word in the test answer choice, but it's so minor, rare and non-important comparing to overall site's idea, implementation and beauty, I don't even care.


This is me, a fresh livemocha fan!

Time For Tests!

Before we go any further, I need to make sure that we, you and me, are more or less on the same page.

Ta daaa! Nice Yoko, isn't she?

Here is the set of random basic Japanese tests I found on a web site Quizlet.com.

First, there are some tests that look easy to me. I did try few and I can set myself a goal to pass them with A+. Will do this in 3 days, before my lessons with Ei san continue:

Hiragana

Katakana

Primary Greetings

Romaji Japanese Vocabulary 1

Basic Japanese Nouns

Basic Japanese Nouns II

Daily Routine Verbs Kana

Japanese verbs part 1

Japanese verbs part 2

Meeting People - Kana

Can you pass the tests above with A grades? If yes - cool! If not - work harder next few days!

If tests above go well, I would try the tests that look bit hard to me to right now:

Japanese Verbs
Yr 9 Japanese Term 4 Verbs - Kana
Basic Japanese Adjectives
Japanese adjectives - Kana
Japanese for Busy People I: Lesson 1 - Kana

Hmmm...If I were a real man, I would do every test here and here. Kidding.

P.S."Quizlet.com" sounds really awful for my Russian ear, but the site is quite useful. I did not find a way to embed it's tests to this blog though - not so good. Does anybody know Japanese tests that come with the code to embed them into the blog like you can do with flash videos etc.?