12/16/2004

LearnAlphabet databases for Kanji

I'm still using supermemo to learn to write kanji (at 722 characters now) and increase my vocab, but wanted something to help me review a little bit whenever I have extra time and have finished my supermemo quiz. Unfortunately the drill feature in that program is a little clunky to use (esp. as I didn't categorize any of the data files below--but in any case, you don't want to mix extra practice with drilling the cards you get wrong). Anyway, to make a long story short, I found a nice little free program called learn-alpha and made new data files for my customized kanji-ordering (in sets of 200 kanji). Learn Alpha is a very simple quiz program, but it suits my needs (the files have bitmaps of the main characters but depend on a Japanese environment for the reading, so that's a waste, but anyway it works). Here are 10 files representing the 2000 most common kanji in the same order as the below supermemo file:

These require a Japanese capable palm (either a Japanese model or one with JOS or the like installed) and the Learn Alpha program. Note that program comes with Kanji cards ordered by grade level, but the "answers" are just the English meaning. My cards have kana readings, an example compound, then an English keyword.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi,

I learnt about learn alpha in your blog and I'd also like to build my own lists in spanish, but I find it a bit complex to use bitmaps to define each kanji. Is there any other way to create lists using directly the character itself?

Thank you

7:30 PM  
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1:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi,


{is it possible that you could also make/do you know of} a comparable non-Jap OS version of your Learn-Alpha databases (i.e. using romaji/ascii for the kana)?
I once thought of building such things myself, but it seems the romaji versions of kdict etc are quite hard to find ...

Thanks,
Best Regards,
pirogo

8:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello. this is in response to Pirogo seeking a non-JOS program to learn Japanese. I found two programs actually, both free, that you can use. one is called Dokusya and the other is PAdict. both are great programs and PAdict, you can enter the kanji in real kanji format, not using romaji. you have to actually write the kanji in the proper stroke order for the words to come up. it is a great help if you are reading a newspaper and only want to know the meaning of the words.

1:42 AM  
Anonymous Carl said...

These files don't seem to be downloadable anymore. Any chance you could put them up again

10:22 PM  

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