Kanji Cards 1 Able Software

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Hiragana/Katakana posts should go into the stickied Shitsumonday thread8. Content creators wishing to advertise must contact the mods first. (no kana apps)This is not the full list of rules. Furigana To create furigana in your posts, use the following syntax: 漢字(#fg 'かんじ')will display The quotation marks are not optional. Related Subreddits. Hello, I recently got a Spectre x360 laptop and am interested in using the Genki books on the left side of the screen while using a software (preferably not Paint) on the right side of the screen to practice the characters depicted.Alternatively, a good program that allows me to load the Genki workbook and be able to write on it would be the best option.If there is no software such as I have described, I will probably end up using my iPad and some app for practicing, although I would much rather read through and follow the Genki books. This.Another good source of 原稿用紙 (げんこうようし = Japanese manuscript paper) is incompetech.com, specificallyBarring that, get some regular graph paper and block off 4 squares per masu or whatever you want to adjust the size.To the OP:What you need software for (if you need it) is in coming up with the test questions for your daily quiz.

You don't need the software to grade you. You can do that, if you have the answer key.You can use Anki or similar SRS that work great for managing the 'what am I about to forget?' Put vocabulary words individually into it.

The genius of Anki is, it relies on YOU to grade yourself. So you can make your 'answer' require whatever you want. In your case, make it 'write the prompted word for a basic success, and then assuming I'm correct, write an entire row of it on paper' if you want.

Then you judge, do you like your handwriting on this word? So adjust the 'next time it comes up' accordingly, because you are the grader.I mean, you can use Anki for dance moves, even. 'Dance this named step, did I guess it right?' For a basic pass and then if you think you need more practice, it's a 2, otherwise a 3, if it's totally easy then 4, whatever. I'm basing my argument from the 10 year old who I watched for 4 years and the amount of progress he makes daily through practice (and yes, young people learn more quickly.)It's not even the pen and paper that is important. If you have a calligraphy brush and a bucket of water you can practice on a concrete path on a hot day. I've see Chinese monks do this.

You can practice with chalk on a blackboard. You could even practice with your finger on a tablet if you don't get distracted by all of its other bells and whistles. The magic is in the doing.I've met a non-native girl who went to a Japanese school did the same things that the 'native' kids did in the classroom. She left the country with her parents and moved to another country and joined a Saturday school with Japanese kids who had lived outside Japan. They will be 'native' when they go back to Japan. She was miles ahead of the in reading and writing because she had done more practice (and obviously had more exposure in daily life.)I met a non-native professor of Japanese Studies in the 1980s who had changed schools and was told at the interview that students at his new school were already at a higher level than him and that he needed to catch up.

Actually they weren't but all the practice he put in over the summer holiday gave him an advantage that stayed with him for years.I'm curious about your theory of 'being native' please elaborate why it may be more effective than practice.

SRS is short for “spaced repetition system”. Generally speaking, it’s a piece of electronic flashcard-like software that helps you to long-term-memorize large quantities of information by effectively working on only a small subset of the information each day, using.The idea of spaced repetitions is painfully simple: when you first learn something, you (need to) review it very frequently in order to keep remembering it.

Later, you can review it less frequently — apparently this is a property of human memory regardless of age or “intelligence”. The ever-increasing space of time between repetitions allows you to keep reviewing (and thereby remembering) old material even as you learn new material. The SRS takes care of that constant “leaking bucket” problem where you only remember things learned recently. In this sense, it could be said that SRS basically solve the problem of long-term memory: as they say at, you can forget about forgetting.SRS aren’t perfect, but if used correctly (i.e. Daily and with well-formed question-answer pairs), then they promise retention in the range of 90-95%, and in my experience, they do deliver. It’s interesting to think that actually “letting go” — allowing that you will forget 5-10% of what you learn, rather than being obsessed with 100% retention, has the counter-intuitive effect of leading you to actually learn more.

To put it in numerical terms, I have so far learned 4500 kanji with a retention rate of about 90%+; 90% of 4500 is a much better statistic than 100% of only, say, 1000. Also, the 5-10% that I forget generally aren’t the ones I’ve been reviewing for a long time; they are the more recently learned characters.There are many SRS available for varying platforms. Whatever SRS you choose, remember that the key is not which SRS you use, but that you actually use one and use it every day.For more on SRS and kanji study, check. Slipping up isn’t really a big deal once you actual return to it. You come back and find that you have a big pile of flashcards to review and either do them in one sitting (100) or deal with them over the course of a few days or a week (500.).

The SRS will catch those that you forgot – that’s the whole point. Our brains are pretty good at dealing with it, too.As long as you bite the bullet and load up your flashcards, rather than telling yourself “argh, there’s going to be LOADS to do” every day and not doing it. If you feel like that, then just allocate a 5 minute (set a countdown timer on your phone) session each day until you’ve gotten over it. First things first, thanks so much for this information.

I was beginning to think Japanese was an impossible feat. The SRS system is really helping out, as well as all the other information on the site.I was wondering if there was any possible way to add audio to say, a program like Mnemosyne. I’m getting decent at reading, but I still have great trouble catching spoken Japanese.

I figured if it helps to read sentences over and over, it ought to help to hear certain Japanese spoken over and over (and an SRS system would be the best way to do it). I have sources for good Japanese audio, and I know how to “grab” the audio from movies and shows; if there were some way I could make that audio the “question” in Mnemosyne and the “answer” could be the transcripted phrase, I don’t know, maybe it will help my listening skills.Thoughts on if this might be a good idea (and if it’s possible?)Thanks. I can confirm that Mnemosyne supports audio, as of version 0.9.8.The tag is used like this (but use angle brackets instead of parens):(sound src=”file.ogg”/)You can put that tag either on the question or answer side, and the sound will play when it is shown. Hit ‘R’ to replay the sound.I just found that out last week, because I was wondering if audio might be a neat addition to the flashcard review. It seemed like hearing the audio confirmation would be fun, rather than just reading the phonetic spelling. However, I agree that the effort required to prepare the audio is a big concern!

Mario,Actually you should have the English keyword as the question and the kanji as the answer. That way, when you review you can look at the keyword and then try and write down the kanji.As for inputting them into your computer, I have three suggestions:1. I know in windows there is an option in the Japanese IME for ‘writing’ the kanji with your mouse in a box.

The computer then tries to work out which kanji you meant.2. Look on this website and there is a file you can download with a list of all the kanji and keywords. You could use this to copy/paste the kanji into your SRS.3. Save yourself a ton of time and use Everything is already set up for you and it’s a great site for later in the book as people have shared stores for all the kanji, when Heisig just gives you primatives. Name(required),I used iFlash for quite a while. I really enjoy it, however it doesn’t have an SRS algorithm attached to it. So I had to stop using it.

If it did have an SRS algorithm, I would jump on it immediately. It is a great program, just not exactly what Khatz is advocating here. If you or anyone has figured out a way to make it work like an SRS, please let me know.One more thing, I can’t really find an SRS that I’m fully comfortable with for the Macintosh.

I couldn’t get mnemosyne to work, Genius and J-memorize didn’t do it for me and Anki seems a bit too buggy yet (although, it appears to be shaping up fast). Any suggestions?

(I’m using a moldy ibook G3).Thanks,Charles. I’m looking for a SRS which works on my mobile phone (Docomo, FOMA, n903i- I have sim cards of 1,2 and 4Gb in size) which can connect to an internet database so I can use the same info at home on my computer as well. Yes I live in JapanI tried the “Khatzumemo” on my phone (after creating an account using my PCs and heres what happenedI surfed using Docomo’s proprietry iMode software (which supports HTML and Java (I think)1) The picture on the login screen was missing (no problem-saves on time/money)2) the password defaults to accepting numbers (no problems- I changed my password)3) Once logged in the screen simply goes blank, white, nothing at all happenedI havetried logging in an manyh different times tooAny help would be appreciated. Hey is there an SRS that will work well on a WIndows mobile device? I know there is supermemo for pocket pcs, but I keep hearing bad stuff about it. I’ve got mnemosyne on my laptop, and am building a dictionary for my PDA using ebpocket, but I would really love an SRS on that PDA.

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Then it will be the lamborgini of language tools.If I have to stick with supermemo for pocket pc, can it synch with its desktop buddy? Or would I have to make my cards twice? As it is Im going with th ecutting and pasting from the PDF file I found containing the whole of RTK1. If anyone wants to know, you need Adobe reader 7 to be able to cut and paste into word and then from there into your SRS. Im trying to be lazy/ efficient, but the srs developers seem determined to make us double up all my efforts. Well seeing as its been a month and no answers, I will mention my own discoveries snce thenthat only supermemo and fullrecall have windows mobile capabilities. Supermemo is apparantly buggy, badly designed, and difficult to use not to mention its not freeware.

You would have to buy two seperate programmes if you wanted to sync, while the pocket pc version of fullrecall is free and unlimited, only the desktop version costs, and less than supermemo. Its interface is very simple, there are good preset databases, but I havnt had any luck with synching yet, although My correspondence with the programmer seems to have spurred a new update.Im hoping once I repair the registry(again) that it will finally sync, plus you can apparantly use just the one database on a sd card, and work from that on the pc too, negating the need for sync. So it gets better and the dude who made it is cool and helpful. Oh yeah and fullrecall has rave reviews from what I have seen, and is 100% guranteed bloat/spyware free.

Woohah talkin to myself still but i hope it helps someone elsepocket fullrecall is the way to go for a pocket pc/pda/ windows mobile device based SRSthe pocket version is free and unlimited. I decided not to bother with the desktop version now, as I have my PDA everywhere I go anyway.

I have to enter it all in manually as there is no import function for pre-made databases, but the entering process is a good learning tool in itself. Of course, you need a japanese OS windows mobile device, which is also good Nihongo practice, especially as I can handwrite all entries on the screen then select the right kanji.good for stroke order practice. It took the update by the developer and setting the new data bases again, but now it works sweet.

If you are in japan you can get good secondhand pda at sofmap in Akihabara in Tokyo or Denden Town in Osaka. Don’t forget to try your haggling skills in Japanese!!

I got a 一万円　discount all in Japanese, somewhat strange Japanese, but I was still pretty stoked. Hi to all I need your help Im a very beginner to study kanji I already learn all hiragana and katakana. And I would like to use the program ANKI, but I don’t have idea how to use to learn kanji and compondsI download the program, but now. How I can learn something?I don’t know what to type, I thought in this program there was all the cards and kanji and sentence I needed but there’s nothing. How I can add all these things?I don’t know where to find itThank you so much I hope you can help me 🙂. As someone who has been studying Japanese for the last 15 years on and off with varying levels of motivation I am very happy to have been referred to this website.

I feel like an idiot for not taking on an approach like this sooner, but I guess information wasnt as accessible as it is now. Well that is the defense I am going to use.Ive got a question that someone might be able to help me with. Im plugging in sentences into Anki that contain the vocab that I need for JLPT level 1 working from a textbook. So far I have added 500 sentences and I am still enjoying it. I also downloading the premade Hesig deck and am working on that.My problem is that I seem to be spending too much time on this each day. In particular the the adding and revision of sentences. In the earlier stages of my study with Anki I noticed I had a higher memory retention rate and a higher rate of answering correct the first time.

And Im thinking that is because I would have to review the sentences that I entered the day after. This has the benefit of still being fresh in your memory when you review it but also retaining a better sense of the nuance of a particular word/sentence as you have looked through lots of examples.Presently there is a 4-5 day space between the time that I enter a new sentence to the time that I first review it and I think this is bringing my review time up. I have anki set to the standard mode over reviewing sentences and learning 20 new ones per day. I guess I have been adding more than 20 per day so now there is this big space between when I add the sentences and when I first review them.My question: Do you guys make sure that the amount you add each day is equal to the amount of new sentences that you need to study each day (in order to make sure that you can learn the new sentence the day after you entered it)? Add 20 learn 20 new ones. If so do you think this has saved time?Sorry for the long post!

RJ and Raul,Khatz covers how you learn to pronounce the kanji in his. The fourth question down reads:“ Remembering the Kanji Volume 1 (RTK/RTK1) does not cover kanji readings. How will I learn pronunciations of kanji in Japanese?You learn kanji readings on a sentence-by-sentence basis. When you input a sentence into your SRS, part of the input process will be for you to find out the readings for its kanji. Those readings will be part of the “answer” section on an item in your SRS.”In the comments section of the article he answers a similar question with a more detailed answer:“how do you manage to memorize the kanji readings and stuff?1. Learn the reading of each kanji as it used in the sentence. So, rather than learn all the readings of a given kanji, learn the one reading that is being used.in this case.–in the sentence at hand.2.

Add that kanji reading to the “answer” section of the SRS.Note:(i) A sentence has a kind of rhythm to it that will actually make the reading quite easy to remember, generally speaking. Certainly, it will be easier to remember than an isolated kanji reading.(ii) Also, be sure to use SHORT sentences to begin with, don’t overwhelm yourself. Something like 「テレビを見る。」 or 「夕食の支度をする。」 or 「慌てて登校する。」　is a good length.(iii) Use sentences that have multiple parts of speech. What I mean is, you want nouns, verbs and adverbs/adjectives all in there.”So, to sum up:1. Don’t worry about the readings when you are still learning the kanji.2. After you’ve learned the kanji, then you learn the kana (hiragana+katakana). These are your pronunciation guide.3.

When you are ready to start picking out sentences from your immersion environment (listening, books, etc.), you will naturally and gradually learn the readings of kanji one by one in the context of individual sentences you enter into your SRS (start really simple!). At this point, dictionaries with sentences, beginner books and books with furigana (tiny hiragana printed over or beside kanji) are your best friend. (Some manga–especially those written for Japanese children–put furigana on all the kanji.)Here is an example of how to learn pronunciation of kanji in the context of a sentence when you enter it into an SRS:1) Put the sentence with kanji in the question of your SRS: 行こうよ！2) Using hiragana, indicate the pronunciation of the kanji in the answer: いこうよ！ (or 行こう＝いこう, etc.）The fact that each kanji has multiple readings can sound intimidating when you think of it all at once, but it’s easy when you take it sentence by sentence. Like Khatz says, you just get used to it. Kind of like how English speakers get used to how “ough” in words like “dough” is pronounced like “ow” in “snow”, but the “ough” in “cough” sound like “off”, and the “ough” in “rough” sounds like the “uff” in “cuff”.

When you’re still learning the alphabet, if you worry about all the diffent ways you can pronounce the vowels, you might get a heart attack. You start out with something easy and fun like “The Cat in the Hat” and before you know it you’re sounding out the highly-processed ingredients on your cereal box and asking your mom what “dextrose” and “trisodium phosphate” are. Likewise, when learning Japanese pronunciation sentence by sentence, your knowledge gradually builds and connects until you develop a ‘sense’ or ‘feel’ for how a kanji is probably read (even if you’re not sure). It’s a process that you go through a step at a time. Khatzumoto,I’m a beginner in Japanese; rather I started to learn Japanese last week. I’m a High school student and I don’t have any money to spend on classes and really don’t have time to go to Japanese Classes either (Pretty much avoided this after reading how unpractical the method they teach is).I’m so-called ‘Emersing’ myself into a Japanese environment and finding it really easy, I’m using the SRS and that’s where my question comes in.

I’m using SRS for Kanji of course but when I’m memorizing each of the characters, I don’t hear the ‘Audio’ of it.Do I need to memorize the character and then find how to say it?Sorry if I’m sounding like a total idiot but could you help me understand. Maybe I’m not just getting the concept with the SRS, but where does ‘Speaking Japanese’ come. Should I be learning Hirigana/Katakana first? I’ve been told that it is used my younger children to help them further understand the Kanji better?I’m probably asking a question thats probably been answered but.

Could you please help me understand.:/Could you please answer here or reply it to my email.Thanks (I really like your guide and the concept of ‘Self-Emersion’, It’s awesome)– –Jonathan. PLEASE EXCUSE THE CAPS —I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU, KHATZ, OR ANYONE ELSE WILLING TO PROVIDE SOME INSIGHT.i SIMPLY WANT TO LEARN JAPANESE WITH ONLY JAPANESE. FROM BEGINNING TO END. HOW DO I USE AN SRS WITH ONLY JAPANESE?

ALL OF KHATZS SENTENCE PACKS HAVE THEIR ENGLISH EQUIVALENT AND THAT RUBS ME IN THE WRONGEST OF WAYS. I JUST CANNOT BRING MYSELF TO DO IT. WHILE LIVING HERE IN JAPAN, I HAVE PURCHASED A FEW CHILDRENS BOOKS FOR LEARNING THE KANJI AND HIRAGANA AND THEY LOOK TO BE PROMISING! THEY ARE A PART OF A SERIES INTENDED FOR JAPANESE CHILDREN (AGE 5 AND UP) SO I PLAN TO CONTINUE USING THEM AND ORDERING THE NEXT ONES IN THE SERIES.IN SHORT!hOW CAN AN SRS FIT INTO ALL OF THIS?

SHALL I WAIT A BIT AND THEN SLOWLY BEING INPUTTING JAPANESE QUESTIONS WITH THEIR JAPANESE ANSWERS IN MY SRS? BECAUSE AS KHATZ SAYS, SENTENCES ARE KEY TO NATURALLY PICKING UP GRAMMAR, WHICH I WANT TO DO.AND LASTLY, HEISIGS BOOK.SO MUCH ENGLISH WITHOUT THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE KANJI? HELP.MAYBE I WILL JUST STICK TO THE CHILDRENS BOOKS, MOVIES, SHOWS, MUSIC, PODCASTS, AND HOPEFULLY AN SRS?THANKS TO EVERYONE,JUSTIN. To be able to do the SRS-technique effectively I’ve written a Windows Mobile SRS-application for Kanji/Hanzi repetition.

I think it’s mature enough now so that I can release it so any of you guys who uses Windows Mobile as well can use a free SRS-tool. =)The algorithm used is mostly the same as in SuperMemo and Anki, I just haven’t had a chance to do any testing of it with lots of Hanzi/Kanji yet, since I’m still learning at chapter 12 of Remembering the Hanzi. =)It uses its own file format but can read and save XML files, so with a bit of fiddling and converting it should take content from other sources (Anki, SuperMemo, etc).

I’ve created a program for editing decks on the PC too and I’m supplying the first few chapters of Remembering the Hanzi as sample content.Have fun. I’d strongly recommend learning skip codes, they’re a method of describing “classes” of kanji through patterns and are great for finding kanji in pictures/books by narrowing options down from a few thousand options to around ten.Also not sure what your operating system is, but while getting your OS into japanese can be a hassle enabling japanese just requires downloading some software called an IME. Google has a decent one, and microsoft has a good one you can add in through the control panel under the keyboard tab in the region and language menu.