Mozuku

A teacher at my college recently introduced me to iKnow, a vocabulary self-study site for Japanese learners (the interface is only in Japanese at present). It teaches vocabulary and then provides dictation exercises a little bit similar to the Nintendo DS　えいご漬け (Eigo-zuke) games, which are very popular. The interface is very clean and the audio quality is good and it loads quickly. Like Eigo-zuke, my only complaint is that it is a little too focused on sentence-level language and there is not a lot of context provided. However, iKnow seems to be making a lot of use of collocations and that is quite a nice characteristic to have (instead of the usual semantic groupings of items we find on most vocabulary sites) and the recordings used in the dictation are clear and at a good speed not painfully slow (or overly_separated_and_annunciated) as is often the case . A very nice resource, especially for self-studiers.