Practice your Japanese
That's a small program I whipped out in my spare time to study Japanese... The idea is to add the words, sentences, expressions or any other stuff in the interface and then the program pops what you added randomly and you need to answer. The point is to achieve the highest score, practice everyday to maximize your score, then add more words and expressions :)
The features include adding words and expressions to a specific list, for example based on subject: Animals, Numbers and so on...
Choice of the language you want to answer in, like if you choose English, then you'll be asked for a word in Japanese & Romanji and you answer in English and then you can switch.
And of course it shows you if you were right in the previous question.
Technical points: It's web-based, written in PHP & MySQL so it can be put on any system and run on any platform.
For the ones of you who study Japanese and are interested in the idea, can send me an e-mail and I'll send you the thingie.
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Looks like an interesting way to remember certain grammar patterns and certain Kanji words. ^_^
Sounds really interesting ^^
To tell a secret,
that way I managed to memorize Hiragana and Katakana in a week and a half, studying about half an hour a day ^^
あ。これなかなか便利ですね．．． 試して見るか。
I'm really sorry, didn't quite get the last part, did you want to see it?
tameshite miru ka. It roughly means, "let's test it", "try it out".
This program could be useful, but languages shouldn't be learned by comparing it to another language. Especially since there are words that cannot be translated.
Yeah, it doesn't remove the fact that you still need to expose yourself to the culture and the way the language is spoken... But for verbs or nouns for instance, can be useful...
Please e-mail to blog-comments@berense.org and I'll send you the code...
I would also want to try it, although when I tried sending an email to that adress, I got a "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)". Is there another way to contact you so you could send it to me? Seems a pretty useful program!
Oh! I'm really sorry!
The e-mail is blog.comments@berense.org
Please resend your request...
I'd be willing to try this. Although, if you could add phonetic (pronunciation) spelling with the Romanji, it could be more helpful?
O.o
I'm not sure I see what you mean, you mean like with Hiragana?
Please give an example...
he probably means hiragana in writing as well and wants the program to speak out the japanese words
Not at all. I mean like how a dictionary has a second spelling to "sound - out" the word so it's not pronounced like a foreigner would mangle it....(did that make any sense?)
EX: Anime (ah-nee-meh)
There ya go!! Exactly! Moe = Mo-eh etc....
Any practice tool that simultaneously addresses the matters of vocabulary and kanji memorization could be useful.... unless all it knows is "neko". (^ω^)
It also knows "inu" ^^
And also anything you would give it :)
Is it available for Mac OS?
Could you send the code to nar@lovehina.me.uk I would be interesting in playing with this. Thanks! ^_^
I might put in each of the words I learn during class, then I can review things easier ^^
I meant naru@lovehina.me.uk, I can't type!
I will send you the code later today but I would now recommend of a much better software I found during this time called Anki... It's been developed for about 6 years according to it's author and is basically a very handy tool for remembering anything including all kinds of languages and lots of other stuff... There is a computer version and mobiles version http://ichi2.net/anki/
Thanks, I will appreciate it.
I've seen Anki before but I didn't really like it. I like the idea of yours as a base for making my own maybe (as it's MySQL + PHP based, I like learning PHP too)