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For people who want to learn Japanese kana the Learn Kana website is a resource that doesn't directly show the pronunciation/transliteration of the kana characters near the kana characters. Unlike many other kana websites our product Learn Kana hides the pronunciation/transliteration until a user actually clicks the kana character to view it's pronunciation/transliteration.
The Idea
One of my fields of interest is the Japanese language. In fact, there's so much material on the web about learning Japanese, that you can learn the language from the web. I've tried this, but it's not all very user/student friendly.
To name an example. When learning the Japanese "alphabet"(not an alphabet, but syllables) you can look at what is called "kana charts".
These kana charts contain the syllables, but what it also contains is it's transliteration/pronunciation. You might think, well that's what you want right? Well, yes and no.....you want the transliteration and pronunciation, but not directly under the kana character, because if this is so, then it's like you're cheating when trying to learn the characters.
So what i've come up with is a web 2.0 style of learning it.
To see what i mean visit the draft website i already created:
http://variouspages.isgreat.org/learnkana/
For now i've only finished the Hiragana character set and have only tested the page in Firefox 2.0+, so if it looks crappy in IE and Opera, that would be the reason.
How does it make money? :
As you can see on the website i've added advertisement.
I've also registered the website at the 40 largest search engines on the web. (It probably takes some time to get indexed though)
What sets my idea apart from the masses of other Japanese learning sites? :
- The transliteration/pronunciation of the Kana character is not placed under the character, but can be referenced to by clicking on it.
- It's web 2.0 style (I know...it's a buzzword 
- I actually collected _all_ Hiragana characters on 1 page, which is actually more rare than one would think, often websites only show a part of the entire character set, this is annoying when trying to learn it, as a student you want to see it all and in a comprehensive way.
What i need to improve:
- i think i need a more decent domain name, though this one was free and suffices for now i guess.
I thought of this idea when I was...
trying to learn Japanese Kana characters on the web, but couldn't find Kana charts without the transliteration/pronunciation under them. Though if i found one, then it had no link or reference to the transliteration/pronunciation, which made learning more difficult than it needed to be. |
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Clickable link: http://variouspages....great.org/learnkana/
Hmm, I'm thinking that advertising would be too distracting while you are trying to focus learning a language.
most of all, even though it looks good, I think you should change to mouse over display of the pronounciation. Learning needs to be quick :)
btw, I speak japanese
If you this for chinese you you might be on to something bigger.
Tommy
@Kjalnot
Hajimemashite, dozo yoroshiku. ;)
ah ok.... see yeah in 3.0!
Hard to learn just from words.
Learning of kana charts may be the most obvious application, but once you've designed the interface and produced the site it would be a shame not to let it spread to other languages... Perhaps you could help people to learn vocabulary by having pages of words on a particular topic?
If that is a direction you choose to go in, you could even allow people to record their progress and expand their vocabulary week-by-week. Maybe that's going a LITTLE bit further than the original idea though... ;-)
i like this idea. This is helpful for me as im eager to learn japanese language.
I like this idea, and I agree with Kjalnot that mouse-over display would be better.
Is this all about the kana, or are you going to add some kanji to it too?
Good idea, good luck.
Do it in English for the Chinese market
@Charis
I wanted to do Kanji too, but i thought i'd start with the Kana. There are quite alot of Kanji though. Even if i would only get the 2000-3000 basic ones, that would be quite alot of work. It'll depend on how much free time i
will have to work on this project.
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