by Matthew

Thanks to a work mate for putting me on to this one:
Denshi Jisho
Finally, an easy to use, well-designed site for searching Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC dictionary/database.  It is the full gamut of references in one place:

English to Japanese;
Japanese to English;
Kanji;
Sentences!

A couple of things about this site have been a long time coming. The first thing that [...]

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by Matthew

I came upon the Kanji Clinic via their regular, but not so frequent, column in the Japan Times today. I have added a link in the side bar under (oddly enough) the heading, “Kanji”. Yes. Quite useful for some extra vocab, and so on.

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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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