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Nintendo DS Lite

Will at Nihongojouzu.com has a review of the Nintendo DS Lite, which apparently makes a nice alternative to the standard denshi jisho choices, especially since it includes a stylus so you can write kanji.

Source: “Nihongojouzu.com / Will” | Subject: Software / Tools

Moji Firefox Extension

Another excellent innovation from the chaps at mozdev.org – the Moji extension for Firefox and Thunderbird. Moji is an integrated sidebar-dictionary aimed at helping people read Japanese (and Chinese) on the web. Simply select a single kanji or a whole word from whatever Japanese text you are reading and click on the respective button in the Moji sidebar to display the kanji reading and English … [ Read more ]

Source: “mozdev.org” | Subject: Software / Tools

Samurai Kanji

Samurai Kanji is a 2042-kanji flash-card application for PDA’s (PalmOS, SymbianOS, or Windows CE) intended for drilling after studying James Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji I.

What primarily makes this kanji flash-card application different from other, similar applications is that the kanji are divided into the same lessons that Heisig uses in his book. The user can then choose which lessons to drill on as the … [ Read more ]

Source: “Robert Baruch” | Subject: Software / Tools

WaKan

WaKan is a freeware tool to assist in learning the Japanese and Chinese languages. It contains a character dictionary, a word dictionary, a vocabulary manager, a translation tool, a simple text editor and many other helpful functions, including the printing of flashcards.

One of the main goals of this project is to enable students to read Japanese or Chinese text with minimum knowledge of the … [ Read more ]

Source: “Filip Kabrt” | Subject: Software / Tools

Kanji Trainer Penpen

This is a Tetris-like matching game (ie. things move and you can’t stop them) to make studying Japanese Kanji and the Chinese Hanzi characters fun. Basically, you have to match:
“kanji character”+”phonetic reading”+”English meaning”
to score points.

Current word lists follow the Basic Kanji Book series:
Basic Kanji Book vol. 1-2
Chieko Kano, Yuri Shimizu, Hiroko … [ Read more ]

Source: “Coolest.com” | Subject: Software / Tools

JFC (Japanese Flash Card) Program

JFC is a basic Japanese flash card program designed to aid students learning Japanese. Much of JFC is designed to basically mimic what one would normally do with paper flash cards, except on a computer. There are a number of potential advantages to using a computer flash card program over a normal paper system:
1. One does not need a big stack of paper … [ Read more ]

Source: “Glenn Rosenthal” | Subject: Software / Tools

JWPce

This is a free Japanese word processor (and more) program that was originally based on the JWP free program (though note that JWPce is a different program from JWP and has a different feature set).

Source: “Glenn Rosenthal” | Subject: Software / Tools