KanaTrain
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kanatrain.pl is a program to help memorize japanese phonetic characters, in
particular hiragana (平仮名). It requires a Perl interpreter, version 5.6.0 or
later (but it won't work with Perl 6) and a terminal capable of displaying
glyphs specified with UTF-8. At the moment I know of only two programs capable
of this: xterm as included in XFree86 4.x, and EMACS with `Mule-UCS`_ or
`oc-unicode`_ packages.
The program contains two exercises: in the first one you're presented with a
hiragana and you should write its pronounciation. To avoid ambiguities is best
to write it after the *Kunrei* romanization (ち 'ti', し 'si', ぢ 'di') instead of
the more common *Hepburn* (ち 'chi', し 'shi', ぢ 'ji'). If you make a mistake the
correct pronounciation will be shown, along with the hiragana corresponding to
the one you gave (if any).
In the second exercise you're presented with a pronunciation (written after the
*Kunrei* system) and five different hiragana characters, where only one is the
right one. You should write the number relative to the right one. If you make a
mistake the correct hiragana will be shown, along with the pronunication of the
one you chose.
To end each exercise just give an empty answer.
.. _`oc-unicode`:
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~otfried/Mule/
.. _`mule-ucs`:
ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Mule-UCS/
