Good online Japanese courses?

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N1 is now out. Sadly only 10 lessons and still full of furigana

Well it seems to be the same length as the N2 course, so I'm interested.

This time it's £150 in both browsers. Luckily I can VPN in to work and now it's £10 even after I've logged in as me.

So another £10 spent (although I probably won't touch the course until after I've sat N2 in December ...)

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Seems the course is free, just have to sign up for it.

It is free (I've signed up ... bit of a pattern these last few days!), however they only have A1-1 and A2-2 courses available at the moment AFAICT.

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During an ultimately fruitless search for some N2 past papers, I stumbled across an NHK site full of programmes for schools:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/school/.

They mostly seem to be 10m segments. I've just spent 30m watching something about rivers, another one about eruptions and just now one about earthquakes. Not quite an online course but certainly very useful listening practice for me. The icing on the cake is that there is an associated script displayed next to the program. I've mostly been listening rather than reading, but it does seem to very closely follow the narrator (it may even be exact, but I've not checked properly). Looks like I have some more listening practice to get through!

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During an ultimately fruitless search for some N2 past papers, I stumbled across an NHK site full of programmes for schools:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/school/.

I have at times made use of the NHK 高校講座 (Kokokoza) videos, which are aimed at people doing their high school diploma through distance learning, and also have accompanying text: http://www.nhk.or.jp/kokokoza/

懐かしいです！ (So nostalgic!)