Category Archives for 03 writing • 書く事
After Kanken 2009
Yesterday I sat the kanji kentei 漢字検定 in London. There were surprisingly few candidates there. Less than 30 for all levels by my reckoning. This is a real pity as it’s an interesting and challenging test of real Japanese reading … Continue reading
Fingerpainting Kanji in OS X
I was a little underwhelmed by Apple’s two recent offerings. The Touch didn’t get a camera and the price drop has yet to convince me to buy one. Maybe in the New Year. Then there was Snow Leopard. Anything new … Continue reading
Japanese Children’s Calligraphy
I’m not sure how long this link will last. Today’s Mainichi Shinbun has a photo special of calligraphy from the 26th Hiroshima Heiwa Shodo-ten. The examples written with pen as opposed to brush are very interesting, especially the more cursive … Continue reading
漢字学習ステップ８級 • Kanji Study Step Level 8
漢字学習ステップ８級 published by: 日本漢宇能力検定協会 Another book to prepare for the kanken test. This time it is an official book published by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation. It is a textbook for Japanese people, completely in Japanese and requiring a … Continue reading
Japanese Spellcheck
Do you miss out small tsu? Forget when to lengthen a vowel? Use the wrong voicing? Help may be at hand from Purdue University. It is an old project (the last update was 2002) but they have available custom dictionaries … Continue reading
MacOS X 10.5 Leopard すごい！
Since MacOS X was first released the built-in support for Japanese has been excellent. Everything you need for Japanese is in the standard installation. It’s there when you want it. It just works; no searching around for install disks. I … Continue reading