Jetset Japan InfoZone - Essential Japan Living Information

JAPANESE LANGUAGE LEARNING SOFTWARE

BEGINNER'S JAPANESE: Download and unzip this little file to get you started learning Japanese. Basic level for starters, contains lists of hiragana and Katakana and an introduction to basic kanji. Very handy.

Basic Japanese(164k)

KANJI GOLD: All Level 1 and Level 2 Japanese Kanjis (about 6000). Compounds sorted into Grade levels (0 -9) kanjis. (over 44,000 compounds). Custom Dictionaries for compounds (can be made with JWP). Custom Dictionaries used for vocabulary study. Custom kanji lists and dictionaries (can be made with JWP). Includes Kanji lists for many popular kanji texts, with page numbers. Kanji POPUP feature that automatically flips through kanjis and/or compounds while you are using other programs. Kanji meanings available in both Hiragana and English. Unique kanji study list method to help memorization of Kanjis.

Kanji Gold (3.1MB)

KANA SENSEI: KanaSensei is a small Java applet facilitating the learning of Japanese kanas (hiragana and katakana). You can learn both sets of characters at your own pace by specifying subsets of kanas on which the program will test you. The program will ask the specified symbols again and again until you learn them all. The applet is offered in three languages: English, French, and Spanish. The Java source code is also available.

Kana Sensei (91 KB)

KINGKANJI FOR WINDOWS/PALM: This is a very popular Japanese flashcard program for Windows and is also available on the Palm Pilot. It has animated stroke display for 1st-6th grade Joyo kanji and kana (over 1,200 characters). It is highly customizable and emphasizes kanji/kana writing as well as reading. It can also read your user created flashcard files. This program is self contained and does not require a Japanese operating system or Japanese fonts. For help, view the HTML file included in the archive. Registration is only $24.95.

KingKanji for Palm is compatible with Palm OS 2.0 and above. This means it works on all Pilots except the Pilot 1000 and 5000. To install a 30 day fully functional demo, simply download the zip file below file, uncompress it, and install the three Pilot databases (.prc and .pdb files) on your Pilot. You can find out more about the product at the gakusoft website:

King Kanji for Windows (1.5 MB)

King Kanji for Palm (2.3 MB)