Unfortunately, you don't have the Java language, so you can't see it work.

Select the desired lesson and then click on the right answer. The "sense" button reverses the sense of which are questions and which are answers. When you get an answer correct, it is displayed above your score for review. Actually this applet can drill you on anything in any font; it just uses a data file with lines "stuff = other stuff".

The source for Learn is here. To install Learn on your machine, unarchive learn.zip and pcffont.zip into the same directory. You'll end up with a bunch of .txt and other files, and two subdirectories: pcf and pcffont. Then load the page "learn.html" with your brower or appletviewer.

The kanji come from Jim Breen's kanjidic. This applet is inspired by jdrill.

I also have a PalmPilot version of Learn.

If you're looking for books to help you learn Kanji, I recommend Kanji Pict-O-Graphix : Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics by Michael Rowley. This remarkable book provides visual aids to memorization by tying the meaning of the characters to the radicals through drawings. I also find Essential Kanji : 2,000 Basic Japanese Characters Systematically Arranged for Learning and Reference by Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill to be a useful reference.

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Copyright 1998 Ken Shirriff. Last updated 10/8/98. Java and other Java-based names are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and refer to Sun's family of Java-branded technologies. Use of this software is subject to the terms of the license agreement.