Youtube Video Presentation: 100 Kanji in 6 Minutes

tom_b New member

From: Tokyo Registered: 2013-12-18 Posts: 7 Website

As an experiment, I've uploaded a video presentation showing the 100 most frequently used kanji in Japanese with English keywords from James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji".

You can see it here:
http://youtu.be/eZytCdt_UZo

The presentation shows the kanji one-by-one, going from the most frequently used kanji (1) to the 100th most frequently used kanji (100). The frequency list was taken from Halpern's "Kanji Learner's Dictionary".

For each kanji, the kanji is shown first, then shortly afterwards the keyword is displayed, with audio. The timing is relatively fast, so that 100 kanji can be displayed in 6 minutes, but not too fast I hope. I carefully chose the animations to be unobtrusive.

My goal is for someone who wants to learn the kanji, to just be able to sit back, and watch the presentation, soaking in the kanji/keywords.

If anyone has any comments, please let me know! If you guys like it, I can make more presentations like it with other lists of kanji.

Last edited by tom_b (2013 December 22, 6:52 am)

ryuudou Member

Registered: 2009-03-05 Posts: 406

I understand where you're coming from, but this is a pretty blatant attempt to advertise your "free to try" app. Don't you think you should be a little more subtle?

Or even more direct. Just make a thread for the app; there's no need to try to subtley advertise it under the guise of presenting this kanji slideshow when we can all browse the kanji ourselves by clicking the top of the site.

tom_b New member

From: Tokyo Registered: 2013-12-18 Posts: 7 Website

That's a fair comment - I'll remove the reference to the app. Editing the above post now.

I was hoping the presentation offered some value to those who just wish to quickly learn the 100 most common kanji.

Any feedback is welcome. Does anyone have any ideas how to make the presentation more useful?

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