by Matthew

When you have a lame work computer (like me) and you can’t jack it up for Japanese like I talked about in the post about Rikai-chan and Perapera-kun, then there are some handy online dictionaries you might want to know about.
Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC is one place to start. It is not particularly usable nor intuitive [...]

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by Matthew

Kanji gets a lot simpler when you start thinking about them in their component parts I think. For me that is the case anyway. On this theme, Salvatore-John has a book called “Easy Kanji” which groups kanji according to common components. It is good for low-intermediates and people who already have a couple of hundred [...]

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