Oct 7, 2008
Genius files: Remembering the Kanji
I’ve been using Genius software on my macbook for some time now. For studying Japanese Kanji, this looks like the way to go. I recently came across a yahoo group which provides some pre-made genius vocab lists which correspond to James Heisig’s book Remembering the Kanji:
Download Remembering the Kanji Genius word list (357kb)
The yahoo group has a bunch of other files as well, including Anki files if you’re on windows. I have about 2 months left in China, but I’m grateful that I’m not going to have to struggle with kanji as much as other students of Japanese.
Anki works on OSX, too. I use it pretty much constantly
I’m finding that while learning Japanese my character knowledge is almost a hindrance sometimes. Like, I know what ?? means because it’s the same as Chinese, but I have a really hard time replacing ‘bi4yao4′ with ???? in my head. I’m sure the problem will fade in time, but it’s frustrating.
You mentioned anki to me a while back, and until just recently I’ve been favoring genius — more for its simplicity than anything else.
But I find that I’m liking Anki more and more because it has two text areas, one for the sentence, and one for how it’s read. (and a third for meaning as well)