http://en.kanjiroushi.net/

Does anyone know anything about this site? I checked around to try to find out where their info comes from (especially in regards to their example sentence) and couldn't find anything. So, if no one here knows what the deal with the site is, then I will probably shoot them an e-mail to find out.

I ask because they seem to have a good program for the iPhone/iPod Touch that helps learn kanji based on many different classifications (this program is usable on their website, though I'm not sure if in full). When you select an exact word, they do give example sentences. It's these I really want to check the credentials of.

So if anyone knows, please post!

The rule is: if it's English and on the internet, it uses EDICT/JMDICT+KANJIDIC+RADKFILE/KRADFILE+TANAKA. All free stuff of questionable quality.

I just checked out one page for a kanji and it is indeed that.

It gives the credits at the bottom of the page. Kanji data is by Jim Breen.

Looks like the examples are the Tanaka corpus, yes. I found this one in the examples for 腕:

Quote:彼は手腕家だ。
He is man of ability.

and if you look on the WWWJDIC site you find the same sentence with the same ungrammatical English translation.

Jarvik7 Wrote:EDICT/JMDICT+KANJIDIC+RADKFILE/KRADFILE+TANAKA. All free stuff of questionable quality.

These aren't all the same level of questionable quality, mind. Tanaka is far and away the worst (perhaps irredeemably so in the absence of native Japanese speakers to sanitize it). EDICT has its limitations (there's been a discussion somewhere on the forum before about this) but IME is not generally outright wrong, and sometimes is the only online source of a definition for an obscure or jargon word. I don't use the KANJIDIC/KRADFILE bits but it seems unlikely to me that they're going to be very far wrong (fairly simple and well defined purpose, after all), except in the "meanings" for kanji -- but then I'm not a fan of trying to ascribe meanings to individual kanji anyway...

Ignoring that, look at these snippets from the website:

Welcome on the website Kanjiroushi. The purpose of this website is to help people learning japanese and discover Japan!

You can discover this website depending on your japanese prowness:

Kanjis are a major part of the japanese language. Enjoy delving in these new kanjis

Kanjis, Kanjis some more Kanjis. With this serie, you will know 1000 kanjis

Some 1000 Kanjis more and you will be a god of japanese language

Hiragana and Katakana msut be learned before going on with the more difficult Kanjis.


Note the lack of spelling, grammar and punctuation.

2000 kanji = god? That's not even the bare minimum!

Yep, so it seems another source for the iPhone/iPod is a bust. Oh well...

Does anyone know if there are any reputable ones on the Japanese iTunes store?

Ryuujin27 Wrote:Yep, so it seems another source for the iPhone/iPod is a bust. Oh well...

Does anyone know if there are any reputable ones on the Japanese iTunes store?

For kanji? 漢字源 (Kanjigen) has been on the appstore for awhile.