Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Two things Japanese related

Rikaichan
This is a plugin for the Firefox browser. It adds little info boxes that display when you mouse over Japanese text. It's pretty awesome.

Reviewing the Kanji
This is a website that you can log into and review kanji using a flashcard system based on Heisig's Remembering the Kanji I. It's pretty sweet. So far, I'm up to over 500 kanji and I've been using it for about 3 weeks. My goal is to learn to recognize (and write) the most common ~2000 within the next 6 weeks. I've been studying Japanese off and on for several years now and prior to finding this website, I only managed to learn about 150 kanji.

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