Masako O. Douglas
JWPce is a software program, which was developed by Professor Glen Rosenthal at University of California, Los Angles. It is an excellent tool to learn kanji and vocabulary.
Learners
of Japanese , especially from an alphabetic back ground , commonly share the
following problems in learning kanji and vocabulary:
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It takes
a great deal of time to learn kanji, but it is very hard to retain them for a
long period.
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It is difficult
to differentiate new kanji in work sheets from those , which have been already
learned in the past. The learners
tend to think there are so many unfamiliar kanji in work sheets.
*
Kanji in a hard
copy are difficult to read.
* It takes great deal of time to look up kanji in kanji dictionary and sometimes the target kanji cannot be found after long search.
JWPce
solve these problems.
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It has a search
function . Learners can quickly
locate target kanji in their vocabulary list .
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It separates new
kanji from already taught kanji by different color.
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It provides
enlarged kanji and information such
as number of strokes , ON/KUN yomi of the kanji, and index number of Halpern and
Nelson dictionaries.
*
It has an
on-line dictionary and vocabulary list maker.
JWPce
is a free shareware program for PC. It
is downloadable from the following site: