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Need for Kanji (Chinese characters) on Japanese L10 vocab lists
For Japanese, you need to have the Chinese characters (kanji) in addition to the hiragana. I won't use it without the kanji because written Japanese is all about kanji. I love the site and the idea, but adding this would make it so I'd actually use it everyday and really help my grow my vocabulary.
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The company has this in progress.
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Inappropriate?We will be adding kanji in the next few weeks.
In your opinion, what is the most useful way to add this? Seeing Kanji and Hiragana side by side, or being able to select them separately?
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Thank you for the reply.
I don't know if this is technically doable but having the Hiragana pop up if you move the mouse over the Kanji and hover there is a good way. Rikai-chan does this:http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/.
Other wise I think having them side by side would be most useful. Personally, I've been studying Japanese for a while and am fairly good at reading Kanji. When there's a Kanji I don't know the "yomikata" to, I like to try to guess the reading. In my own vocab lists I have the kanji and then the hiragana reading a few "tab" spaces away so I can look at the kanji and try to figure out the meaning. Then I shift my eyes over to the hiragana to confirm. If I don't know the kanji, I look at the hiragana, then go back to the kanji and mentally say/repeat the reading while looking at the kanji.
I hope this helps. Let me know if I wasn't clear in my explanation. I am really excited to see you add kanji. I think I'll use L10 everyday once it's up an running.
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Inappropriate?now we are defenatly discussing features here
i agree it is a must that the kanji is included, since nobody goes to japan writing in hiragana (and you do not find many texts fully written in hiragana either) its just basics you need to know, but kanji is the way to go.
now we are discussing the different kanji languages used in japan
many new words in japan use katakana rather than hiragana (specially modern words, foreign words, ...) i have not seen any katakana here, is it all translated into hiragana?
about how to display the data
as far as popping up the data when hovering over the kanji is a nice addition
but i'd vote to have them next to each other, well aligned so you can cover/uncover a column and try it yourself before reading it all.
this might be something to look at too. layour of the email...
instead of pushing all data after another in 1 line (per word)
some sort of column layout (basic table) might help readability.
Sander
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