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JLPT Kanji Project - Japanese study tool

Kanji alive: A free online tool for learning to read and write Japanese kanji Tae Kim's Blog - Japanese, Chinese, and a dash of Korean Tuttle Publishing sent me four books to review so without further ado, here we go. The first one on the list is Japanese Kanji and Kana by Wolfgang Hadamitzky & Mark Spahn. According to the preface, this book is useful as “both a textbook and a reference work” and it “serves beginners as well as those who want to look up individual kanji”. So let’s take a look at what purpose this book serves. Introductory Chapters The first 68 pages have some interesting information about the Japanese writing system. It also has all the information you need to teach yourself Hiragana and Katakana. You can actually check out most of this information yourself by looking inside the book on Amazon although there currently appears to be an issue with all the Japanese showing up as dots. Jouyou Kanji List The bulk of this book from pages 71-376 contain the list of Jouyou Kanji. Is this a textbook or dictionary? If this is a textbook, how am I supposed to use this to learn kana and kanji? Conclusion

Japanese Language & Culture @ Epochrypha A free kanji flash card program where the student types in the readings. Features mastery score tracking, example compounds tied to readings, and example sentences for many compounds. While KanjiLab is getting long in the tooth and is definitely in need of some upgrading, it is still a very useful drill mechanism for kanji. The software itself has not been touched since the last version in 2004, and it still says "beta" because I never got around to rebuilding a final release version. It is stable, however, and has been used by a few thousand people. The most problematic thing about it right now are the included example words, which were developed before the EDICT data set developed much better markings of common words, and the example sentences, which were drawn from the Tanaka Corpus made available by Jim Breen long before all of the work which has significantly improved them and weeded out the many, many errors. Download KanjiLab 0.5.2B (June 9, 2004) KanjiLab.zip for Windows, 684KB.

Kanjicards.org - PDF Kanji Cards for download, Kanji lists and other Kanji studdy materials. Kanji for the JLPT - Online Center for Japanese Studies Kanji for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test "I'm going to take the JLPT this December, but am I studying the right Kanji?" This is a question we frequently hear at Yamasa. The examination is held only once per year (first Sunday in December worldwide) and preparing for it can be frustrating and stressful - especially if you are not sure exactly what you need to study. The links to the files below lead you to Kanji that have been selected directly from the Test Content Specifications for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Kanji for Level 4 Kanji for Level 3 Kanji for Level 2 Kanji for Level 1 (Coming soon) Return to top of page

Behold my pitiable attempt at kana! Would tracing the characters help me get a 'feel' for them and should I first master them with a pen or pencil? Kenshin,(Note: Chinese dude here.)I can read all your kana. "剣心" is also legible. Have you looked at the kanji from which hiragana originate? They can help you get a feel for hiragana. For example, take a look at あ. It would not be unreasonable to assume that hiragana is meant to be written quickly, for it is clerical script sped up many times. Edit: correct info about the origins of cursive script

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