Using a Palm for studying japanese
I have been aware of very nice tools that can help to improve my japanese. Of course, having these tools alone will not do anything by themselves if I don`t study DAILY 30 min at night and 30 min at morning (at least).
I am only posting some links, but i will give a review when I have instaled and checked out all of those.
An important notice is that in Japan it is difficult to find PDAs wih the Palm OS, so it is better to buy in other countries. Anyway here are some links for Sony Clie Models with Palm OS in japanese (they are expensive and from the 2004, 2 years ago!! maybe used ones can be found cheaper in the auction site):
Clie Site (japanese)
PEG TH-55 in Yahoo
PEG TJ-47 in Yahoo
I would recomend getting new models from palm, such as the E2, TX or T5... a Z22 may work also but it has a low resolution.. i dont know how much this affects in visulizing kanji.
The first link is about the best program for palm, and also FREE: PAdict
http://padict.sourceforge.net/
It makes it possible to write a kanji, hiragana and katakana and search for words and compounds. very neat. also includes pocketkanji wich shows the way the kanjis are written and their individual meaning, and sounds (onyomi and kunyomi). a must have! thank you to all developers involved.
The second link is Peter Rivard recomendations. He says that it is possible to make a palm a better electronic diccionary (denshi jisho) than the ones that are sold in japan (casio ex-word, canon wordtank, etc..)
http://www.peterrivard.com/Pages/japanese.html
http://www.peterrivard.com/Pages/SuperDictionary.html
(for sure i will try this, still it is looks a little difficult to install)
The only thing is that the "denshi jisho" have a keyboard, wich is very usefull for finding the words quickly (maybe in real time while a person is talking). This can be a disadvantage, but the advantage is that a palm is much portable than those. If you want to get serious in this, having both is a good combination. If this dictonary is as good as it says, the palm should be better because the aviability of writing the kanji directly (also keyboards for palms are aviable if this is the case).
Palm OS goodies by Todd David Rudick (Rikai), he recomends super memo and learn alpha. but they are in low resolution. they seem efficient anyway.
http://www.rikai.com/palmos/
Also we can read PDFs on palm. Here are some usefull PDFs for spanish-japanese vocabulary and kanji.
http://nippein.cjb.net/
More programs that i will check
KanjiKun(looks like it is dead), KingKanji($24.95USD), Dokusha(Free but not updated since 2002) -also this document converter can be used-, Super Memo ($19.95USD low res), Learn Alpha(low res), AW Dictionary (78912 entries, 20$USD x 2)
J-OS, a program to display japanese characters (not needed for PAdict). Too bad, the price is $40USD.
http://simple-palm.com/index-e.html
A program to input japanese
http://pitecan.com/OpenPOBox/index.html
More links for japanese sites and programs
http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/00INDEX.html#pilot_r
Kanji + English<>Japanese Diccionary in the Nintendo DS!
looks that Nintendo will open this option for its palm-like game console. The question is, would you use it for studing or playing??
http://ds.ign.com/objects/811/811637.html




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