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Have anyone tried the a japanese kanji teaching application for iPhone called “iKanji”?
If yes, what do you think of it.-
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I have an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S2), so unfortunatley I don’t have an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. I’ve looked at reviews for iKanji and it seems to have got alot of positive reviews. This link ranked it top out of the best 5 Kanji iPhone apps http://www.zonjineko.com/2816-review-my-top-5-kanji-iphone-apps/ .
Koichi also did a video a couple years ago about electronic dictionaries for the iPhone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AejPoyWqoFk&feature=plcp&context=C43c4c72VDvjVQa1PpcFMmYc9EUQgVvbSEUWatCwYzyyUmzASyssA%3D.
Thanks :)
Your welcome :)
I’ve never really had much luck with these weird one off Kanji Learning or Japanese learning apps / websites. They’ve always just ended up being a bit of a waste of money for me.
The most effective method I have found for fully utilising my iPhone and my study is Evernote and Anki – Evernote is excellent as I just jam all my vocab pdf’s on it and a tonne of other useful stuff and just review as and when i get a few minutes (I have a pro account so I can use it offline if i happen to be out of 3g range). Anki for iPhone is also a good investment (although it’s £17) – it’s one of those things that, when it becomes portable, it’s super effective.. I can just grab, 5 mins at work and bang through my kanji reviews, an hour later, take another 5 mins and do another load of reviews.. Instead of just going “Right for the next 30 mins i will do anki” i just fit it in around my day, gives me loads more time to watch/review other aspects of Japanese learning.I hope this helps, the above two are really the only app’s you should ever need.. don’t buy in to the sales pitch of “You can learn Japanese in 3 months with this app!” as it’s bullshit – I haven’t seen anything be more efficient than the ways given in textfugu..
Anki is free on Android. I was going to buy Anki for my iPad until I saw the price…jesus.
Read the Kanji is probably the best website I reckon. I haven’t found any that rival it, but of course it does come at a cost. (N5 is free at least)
I like Evernote a lot and use iBooks for PDF reading on my iPad, the new screen makes reading PDFs really nice. I’m not a big fan of apps for the most part since on an iPad it’s obviously easy to just browse full blown websites, on my phone I only use Anki for Japanese right now.-
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Luke.
Meh, I don’t beggrudge paying for Anki.. I’ve used it long enough for free, might as well give something in return.. The fact i’ve been using it on my phone for about a month now, i’ve already got my money out of it.
Read the Kanji.. Hmm, not sure about it.. I did have a look around and found it similar to iKnow.. I liked iKnow when I was using it, but was only in the stages of learning Hiragana back… I say back then.. It was January.. The Kanji section just scared me ha!
iKnow also had a free app (with your monthly subscription).I might give Read the Kanji a go when I’ve made my way through RTK – I’m thinking i may even scrap RTK for Textfugu radicals and just make up my own stories.. Heisig’s references just seem kind of boring to me.. (<- total derailment).
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isocracy.
Heisig is definitely boring. Kanji Khooli is really helpful with giving you stories, or giving you ideas for stories. Gandalf, Harry Potter, James Bond, Sir Cumference, Gremlins, Freudian imagery up the wazoo etc. Helps stuff to stick.
Don’t forget Mr.T and Spiderman – the most common ones xD
I don’t really use stories from the book or the site, I just think of some sort of association between the elements and that works pretty well while keeping it really short and easier to remember. The annoying ones are the few that have 4+ primitives. @___@
and yep that book is boring as sin. HATE IT. I would have finished it last month but because of the sudden acquisition of a social life I’m only just getting to the last few lessons now. Can’t wait to jump back into grammar and stuff that makes me feel like I’m progressing again.
@ Mark – Ha! Yes Mr. T is my favourite I think, can’t believe I forgot him. :(
Thank you for all the tips.
I actually never studied Kanji with stories before, just memorizing it, so I still think it’s kinda weird. But fun.
I liked “iKanji” because you learn how to write them. I’ve always learned this way, memorizing and handwriting.
And I also think Anki is too expensive for iPhone. ;p But it seem to be of a great help.
I learned a lot when I had to write reports everyday, and at the beginning I used to handwrite it. But now, I have no one to correct them for me.
If I were to handwrite and then type to post on Lang-8 or send to someone that could correct it for me, I wouldn’t. I’m too lazy to do this. Well Maybe I’ll have will/courage to do this later.
I’ll try to keep up the studies with the stories and also learning how to write them. I can’t look at a Kanji and not think of the writing order.
Having a diary in japanese helps a lot, I just wish sometimes I could add furigana to Kanji at Evernote. It would look weird, but… :p
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