Heisig Keyword Learning/Writing Practice

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Reply #1 - 2008 July 25, 12:21 am
megaboyx Member
From: japan Registered: 2008-05-30 Posts: 47

Sorry, I posted in another thread but it seems more appropriate here.  Yesterday I put together a helpful program (for me anyway) that lets you paste in any Japanese text.  Then it will process it, removing Heisig level kanji up to the number you specify.  It replaces them with blanks and prints a sequence of keywords at the end.  You can then get a page preview and print this out, even across several pages if need be.

Then you can work through the list, replacing the blanks with kanji from the keywords.  Under each underline/blank is the sequence number and the on-yomi if you choose to have it there.  I think this is good practice getting kanji from interesting sources and remembering the keywords.

Last edited by megaboyx (2008 July 27, 1:05 am)

Reply #2 - 2008 July 25, 12:48 am
alyks Member
From: Arizona Registered: 2008-05-31 Posts: 914 Website

Oh, now I get it. That could be helpful. Why don't you just put the program online where people can download it?

Reply #3 - 2008 July 25, 2:42 am
megaboyx Member
From: japan Registered: 2008-05-30 Posts: 47

Because I don't have a place online to put it.  Just message me if you want to try it. I don't expect too many people will want it anyway.

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Reply #4 - 2008 July 25, 3:06 am
alyks Member
From: Arizona Registered: 2008-05-31 Posts: 914 Website

Try the RTK yahoo group.

Reply #5 - 2008 July 25, 3:22 am
megaboyx Member
From: japan Registered: 2008-05-30 Posts: 47

Yeah, I wasn't planing on joining any groups, signing up for anything, or in general going through any trouble beyond emailing a zip file.  I'm not here to peddle anything.  Just thought someone on the board might like something useful.  It's no skin off my back if not.  I have tons of much bigger study tools and Japanese language programs I have developed but this is just a simple one-off thing that didn't take much time.

Reply #6 - 2008 July 25, 10:58 am
mentat_kgs Member
From: Brasil Registered: 2008-04-18 Posts: 1671 Website

Yo megaboy, I'm sorry I was rude to you in the other thread. I just think this particular idea is not that great. Please don't feel discouraged when showing your next stuff.

Reply #7 - 2008 July 25, 11:36 am
megaboyx Member
From: japan Registered: 2008-05-30 Posts: 47

Hey nothing you could say could discourage me.  I didn't offer it for a confidence boost.  I didn't think you were rude anyway.  The usefulness of anything depends on the particular circumstances and level of the user.  You should say it's not a good idea for you, but you can't say that about everyone else.

Reply #8 - 2008 July 25, 4:59 pm
kaiya Member
Registered: 2007-12-22 Posts: 12

megaboyx wrote:

Because I don't have a place online to put it.  Just message me if you want to try it. I don't expect too many people will want it anyway.

You could always upload it to megaupload for free then post the link where it's located.
http://www.megaupload.com/

Reply #9 - 2008 July 26, 10:30 pm
megaboyx Member
From: japan Registered: 2008-05-30 Posts: 47

OK, thanks.  At least you don't have to sign up there.  The link is      
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TRYESQ21

The file description is Kanji Heisig Test Generator

There is no installer for it, it's just the exe and the database text file.  It needs .net 2.0 or higher to run.

I added page settings so you can adjust the margins for your printer.

Last edited by megaboyx (2008 July 29, 7:44 am)

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