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[Mike_2003]

Greetings,

Does anyone know of some good Japanese software for learning the kanji? (I don't know anything about Japanese, but I mean the symbols ).

A friend of mine is doing a Japanese exam and has no access to resources and would like some kind of program to practice the most common ones, about 2000 in number.

Thanks,

Mike.

[shmooj]

Where is your friend located? If they are in Japan, I would recommend heading to their local software shop and looking around in the kids educational section where you can pick up some pretty simple software for teaching kids the Grade 1-6 Kanji. These are equivalent to the 2000 or so you need for most communication. THis is what I did as foreign made stuff cost an unbelievable amount.

Or you can go online to
http://www.kanjistep.com/
or a personal favourite
http://www.kanjisite.com/

[Timuli]

You can also try the following link for some software:
http://www.learninglanguages.net/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=10&StartingResourceIndex=30

Apparently the next one teaches you to write Kanji too:
kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/overview.htm

Some more kanji and so on sites:

www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl
www.geocities.com/easykanji/
www.nihongoresources.com/

Cant vouch for any of them as I havent tried any of them except for the first one

[Mike_2003]

Thanks for the links, they were great!

Mike