dacetone's Journal: Tee Vee Jay!

I just ordered TV-J, a feed of NHK (the equiv of the BBC, the broadcasting authority in Japan) from Comcast, and have been watching it all morning. I'm hoping that exposure to natural Japanese speakers will improve my speaking ability, and trying to read all the kanji subtitles makes me realize just how far I still have to go!

My goal for the summer is to learn the 100 kanji and be ready to pass Level 4 (the level that native children reach in elementary school) of the Japanese Proficiency Test. I'm guessing I already know around 40 (counting the numbers and very basic words) from class, so I think it is an attainable goal. And it won't make me too sad to have to take a vacation to Honolulu to actually take the test ;)

Kanji Gold

[L-Train8]

I think you are mainly a Mac user, but if you have a Windows box around, you should check out Kanji Gold [web.uvic.ca], a little flashcard program that I've found really useful in the past. You can select, for example, all Kanji < Level 4, and drill on them. You can view the pronunciation in kana or romanji. It gives example usage. All in all, everything you would want from a Kanji flashcard program, and it's free as in beer and as in speech.

Re:Kanji Gold

[dacetone]

Interesting! I'm going to give it a try in Virtual PC. It sounds great.