Tag Archives for vocab
にほんごをまなぼう Lets Study Japanese
にほんごをまなぼう Lets Study Japanese is an interactive site based around school activities made by the Japanese Ministry of Education. It is almost completely in Japanese. There are some English explanations of what to do, but otherwise it’s an immersive program. You … Continue reading
Anki – multiplatform flashcard program
Anki 暗記 [あんき] (n,vs) memorisation, learning by heart. This is a flashcard program that was written by someone specifically to help him learn Japanese. It’s free, and runs on Windows Linux and Mac. Apparently there’s also a version for mobile … Continue reading
JLPT 3 Kanji and Vocabulary Tests
日本語能力試験 直前対策 文字・語彙 ３級 (国書刊行会） I decided that 直前対策 translates best as “cram session”. This is another interesting little A5 sized book for JLPT3. It covers the first paper that tests vocabulary and kanji. It does this by giving you 15 mock … Continue reading
iFlash
This is a small shareware program that allows you to make flashcard sets, organise them and run them on your Mac. It’s based around the concept of cards that have a question on one side and answer on the other … Continue reading
JEDict
JEDict is my new favorite mac-based dictionary reader. Again it uses data from the EDICT project like WordLookup, but it’s searches are much more powerful and speedy. It doesn’t only search on the first character. It has single kanji searches … Continue reading
Jazz Up Your Japanese with Onomatopoeia
Hiroko Fukuda (Kondansha International) Another book in Kondansha’s series of grammer titles. This time it’s all about 擬音語 （ぎおんご） and 擬態語 （ぎたいご）. These are those words like べろべろ (a state of total inebriation) and たっぷり (replete). This little book explains the system behind Japanese onomatopoeia; … Continue reading