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    Thread: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application.
Post: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application.

This is fantastic. How can I help? I don't have a developer kit unfortunately, but I do have an iTouch.
khooks General discussion 76 29,468 2010-04-07, 9:03 am
    Thread: Do we even need Heisig's book anymore?
Post: Do we even need Heisig's book anymore?

I still open up RTK before I add a new group of kanji. Mostly, I'm learning the primitives, since they're not included anywhere on this site. For the most part, I don't use Heisig's stories finding ...
khooks Remembering the Kanji 48 11,681 2008-07-07, 7:23 am
    Thread: textbooks
Post: textbooks

I can't find a source for it, but there's also a followup to Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar called "A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar" that's very good. Both are a little expensive,...
khooks Learning resources 119 45,127 2007-05-11, 7:43 am
    Thread: textbooks
Post: textbooks

Aside from the Genki series, I'll mention the other books that I use often for reference. * Kanji Learner's Dictionary - Jack Halpern * Kodansha's Communicative English-Japanese Dictionary Kodansha's...
khooks Learning resources 119 45,127 2006-09-28, 9:09 pm
    Thread: textbooks
Post: textbooks

I've used about a half dozen different textbooks and my favorite by far is the Genki series. The pacing is very good - not too fast and not too slow, there's minimal use of romaji (none past chapter ...
khooks Learning resources 119 45,127 2006-06-28, 12:55 pm
    Thread: Vocabulary Software
Post: Vocabulary Software

A website would work best for me too. I'd like one that used something similar to Leitner and was capable of having more than 2 sides per "card." The text I'm using is the Genki series from Japan Ti...
khooks Learning resources 57 17,046 2006-06-21, 8:44 am
    Thread: What do you wish you'd known when you were starting out?
Post: What do you wish you'd known when you were startin...

I like the idea of assigning slightly different meanings to primitives based on where they're located in the kanji. I hadn't thought of doing that before, but it's a good idea! I've had trouble at t...
khooks Remembering the Kanji 15 5,558 2006-06-19, 3:25 pm
    Thread: Electronic Dictionaries
Post: Electronic Dictionaries

Not exactly a dictionary, but I use JWPce. It's a free word processor with built-in dictionary and several kanji lookup tools. http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html
khooks Learning resources 30 13,889 2006-06-14, 10:33 pm