good@cs.mcgill.ca (Dave GOODGER) (06/05/91)
In two months I will be going to Japan for at least a year. I have just
installed Kanji System 6.0.7 on my Mac SE/30, and I am looking for any
of the following:
- utilities
- games
- Japanese language/kanji/kana tutors
- applications
- fonts (esp. PostScript/ATM fonts [do they exist? does ATM support Kanji?])
- inits & cdevs which make life under KanjiTalk easier or more productive
- any tips, tricks, or info about KanjiTalk
- anything else you care to mention
I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could give me. Please send
e-mail; I will summarize & post.
Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu. Thank you very much.
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"Do you like our owl?"matt@asgard.ucsb.edu (Matt Barth) (06/07/91)
I have recently returned from a 1.5 year stay in Osaka, conducting research in computer vision and robotics. I have had a year's worth of Japanese before going over. A year or so back, I came across some Japanese-reference software for the mac called 'KanjiSama' that I found to be indispensable. KanjiSama is a kanji reference tool that allows you to look up kanji with several different lookup modes. If you know the readings of the kanji, you can simply use the FEP (Front End Processor, the little window that pops up when you type in Japanese mode in KanjiTalk) to find the kanji. Or you can find your unknown kanji based on its root meaning, it stroke count, or its primary radical (same as looking up in famous Nelson kanji dictionary). Kanjisama also has a mode of looking up based on an alphanumeric code for each kanji, it works great if you know how to use it. Once you have determined the kanji and/or kanji compound through the lookup modes, it has both a general and technical dictionary that gives you the reading, and the English definition. If the particular compound is not found in the dictionaries, KanjiSama automatically gives you the root meaning of the individual characters, so you can get a jist of the meaning. I have found that KanjiSama is great for reading Japanese articles. I read the material, and if I don't recognize a kanji compound, I can usually find the meaning using KanjiSama in a few seconds. Before, I had to have two or three dictionaries out, so I could lookup the readings, and then the meaning. this took a lot of time, and it would be so frustrating that I couldn't get through the Japanese article. KanjiSama is also good for learning reinforcement. You can save your unknown kanji/compounds to a text file and drill on them later so as to remember them next time. When used consistently, your word recognition increases rapidly. I have seen other Japanese reference software for the mac, but they all seem to be based on Hypercard, and are pitifully slow. KanjiSama is an application by itself, and dictionary accessing is quite rapid. KanjiSama is produced by a company called SANBI Software, the address & tel: SANBI Software 3594 Crowell Avenue Riverside, CA 92504 (714) 352-0276 I think the latest price for KanjiSama is about $140. I have heard they also have a demo version as well. ______________________________________________________________________________ Matt Barth Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 matt@asgard.ucsb.edu ______________________________________________________________________________