Do you love Japanese Kanji? Perhaps you want to learn to read the magnificent volumes of Natsume Soseki. Maybe you are a fan of Japanese Manga comics? Whatever your interests are, reading Kanji will help you pursue those interests. To practice Kanji memorization, start using Kanji Flashcards 500. Take advantage of this free online program to learn Japanese Kanji today! You’ve mastered the basics of Hiragana and Katakana. Now you can push yourself a step further into learning to read Japanese proficiently. Start here.
The cool part of this program is you can set up a specific group of kanji characters and go backward or forward as many times as you want. Just use the drill button. You can omit kanji as you memorize them, or you can add the Kanji characters if you need more practice. Go to Help section in the left hand side of the navigation screen for the instruction on the Drill section of using Java Kanji Flashcards.
Another benefit is that you can hide any contents individually in a card including on and kun reading (English meaning, reading and English meanings in common components). The button ‘show back’ reveals English interpretations, and ‘show front’ hides the contents on the face of the flashcard.
Keep in mind as you learn kanji that the stroke order is very hard to remember. Java Kanji Flashcards includes an animation of each kanji stroke order. This is one of the most useful tools for beginners for Kanji learning.
It would be more helpful if Java Kanji Flashcards included a program for audio to demonstrate each kanji sound. Kanji has 2 ways of reading: on reading and kun reading. Both are used in different ways in Japanese phrases. These forms of reading are important fundamentals in Japanese language study, as they are used to combine three Japanese character types and bind them into meaning. The three character types are: kanji, hiragana, and katakana. Currently, Java Kanji Flashcards is a useful tool for writing, but is limited to learning to read and speak. The sounds are written entirely in Japanese. The student of kanji should pursue multiple means of learning this writing system, while utilizing Java Kanji Flashcards as a starting point.