Kanatest

Kanatest tests your hiragana and katakana recognition. If you don't know hirgana or katakana check out these charts. gothic1024x768.jpg | gotchi2048x1536.png | mincho1024x768.jpg | mincho2048x1536.png

Also be sure to check out a friend's excellent Japanese Learning site gokali.com

Kiten

kiten and konquerer (web browser) are awesome learning Kanji combo. You can click on a single kanji and it'll query the kanji dictionary remember to toggle it off again.

open kiten (Games | Edutainment | Languages)
Settings | Automatically Search Clipboard Selections
resize kiten to take just a portion of the screen (top or bottom)
click top left Japanese flag | Advanced | Keep Above Others
and 'Store Window Settings' if wish to save this state.

open Konqueror and resize it to allow showing kiten either on the top or bottom
- browse an japanese website and highlight the Kanji with the mouse
- voila it'll that Kanji will instantly be searched in kiten with the reading in hiragana and definition in English.

Click red pencil to put kiten in Learning mode...you can choose a Grade level by click Go | Grade. Then choose Edit | Add All to put those words from that level into your quiz.



Now just click the correct meaning of the kanji shown. The bottom left shows the previous answer.

In Kiten search for proper names, surnames, family names, corporations
Settings | Configure Kiten | Dictionaries | Edict | Add
usr/share/edict/enamdict
Now you can search for Masako and Hiroyoshi names, for example, and you'll actually find the kanjis. Then you can copy and paste into OpenOffice.

Langdrill


Langdrill you can have multiple choice answers by taking Multiple Quiz. Screenshot is showing English > Japanese or you can do Japanese > English sense.


heya here's quiz question from Words: Lesson 3


Romaji lesson if you don't have your hiragana or katakana down quite yet.


Click Load other configuration file to choose romaji or different languages.

kdrill

kdrill is for the hardcore level on those who are mastering kanji.
Guess which kanji corresponds to which definition.



Or vice versa, guess which kanji corresponds to which definition.
Sometimes I get a sideways S not sure why that is.

xjdic

Xjdic is a command line Japanese-English dictionary (alternative to Kiten). You must use it in kterm (aka Kanji Terminal) terminal to display Japanese Kanji fonts.

If your happy with the default 12 point font ignore this step. Just start in Mepis by Applications | Browse All | XShells | Kanji Terminal and type xjdict and away you go or open terminal and type kterm -fk kanji16 then in kterm type xjdict. If, however, you want 16 point or 24 point font then do the following below:

In Mepis under KDE go to System | Settings | Menu Editor and click on Kanji Terminal.
Command: /usr/X11R6/bin/kterm
change to either 16 or 24 point Japanese font
/usr/X11R6/bin/kterm -fk kanji16
/usr/X11R6/bin/kterm -fk kanji24



Just type in an english word(s) and press enter to query Japanese-English dictionary.

@ engage romaji input to hiragana


# engage romaji input to katakana


In xjdic type ? to show this Help display ..remember CTRL-D to exit program.


Updated Jan 27, 2005


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