LexiKAN 2.0
LexiKAN is a powerful computer program designed to help you learn to read and write Japanese kanji, hiragana, and katakana. The program contains all 1,945 Jouyou kanji. Using the LexiKAN kanji drawing tool, you can practice writing each character with the mouse using a calligraphy-like drawing system that provides stroke-by-stroke feedback on the correct placement and order of your strokes. You can adjust the drawing and feedback options,...
Price: USD $29.00;
License: Demo
File Size: 4469 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
ReadWrite Kanji 1.1
READWRITE KANJI teaches the complete 1945 jouyou Japanese kanji characters.
The program is based around a "Learning List" which groups a sub-set of the total
1000 kanji. This allows students to concentrate their efforts on a smaller number
of kanji at any one time. A kanji moves off the Learning List after it has been
learned and is automatically replaced by an, as of yet, unlearned kanji. In that
way the size of the...
Price: USD $16.00;
License: Shareware (Free to Try)
File Size: 2555 KB;
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows XP
jBrowse 1
If you want to read Japanese web pages, but your Japanese isn't perfect, you might be interested in jBrowse. It's a plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer that adds furigana and word definitions to Japanese web pages. It's also a Japanese dictionary and kanji tool. It's also free, unless you pay out of charity. jBrowse can do four things:
1) Inject Definitions into a page in your browser
2) Add Furigana (explanatory kana) into a...
Price: USD $15.00;
License: Freeware
File Size: 2734 KB;
Platform: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
KanjiQuick (Japanese Kanji Dictionary) 2.0
KanjiQuick gives you easy access to more than 6500 Japanese kanji characters and more than 47.000 jukugo compounds. It has all the data included in Spahn/Hadamitzky's Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Input stroke number, radical, a single kun or on reading of an unknown kanji and KanjiQuick displays all the information you need: all readings, all meanings (detailled explanations in English or German) and all compounds for any of the...
Price: USD $29.00;
License: Shareware (Free to Try)
File Size: 0 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows Me