Its been awhile since we’ve heard from Phil and his Javascript Japanese Flashcards which aid in the learning of, you guessed it – Japanese! The latest installment features more words and the ability to display multiple words which have the same meaning in the same deck. Of course all the previous features still exist from the last release, which can be read here.

Quoted from the README:

To get started, you just need to unzip the japanese.zip file, and if you’re reading this, I assume you’ve made it that far already. Then just place all the files onto your memory stick. Personally, I put the entire “japanese” folder at the root level of the memory stick. Then you fire up the PSP web browser and
enter the URL “file:/japanese/index.html” (unless you put it somewhere else).

A few problems to take note of:

1. If the vocab reviewer doesn’t fit on one page, you might need to set your text size to Normal and/or your display mode to Normal.
2. If you’re loading the vocab page with all the words so far, it takes a little while to get started because it needs to first shuffle the deck (which takes a while with that many cards)

The attached zip file contains a few html documents (JavaScript) and 1×1 pixel images.

Download: Japanese Flashcard Review

Happy learning!

Phil has sent us an update to his Japanese Flashcard system which aids in the learning of Kana – it also contains a few elementary Kanji lessons.

Here’s what he had to say about this update:

Here’s a newer version of the kana reviewer. Now it has a “score” that it gives you for how proficient it thinks you are. Each flashcard has a certain percentage and the longer you can go without answering an individual flashcard incorrectly, the more of that percentage you get.

At first it offers feedback for setting small proficiency goals. And once you get close to 100%, it’s a way to tell when you’ve made it through every card in the deck successfully.

The Kana review allows for Hiragana, Katakana and mixed quizes as well a review mode that just shows you the answers as you scroll through the syllabary. When you answer incorrectly, it increases the frequency that you’ll see that card, and when you get one right, it decreases the frequency.

To get started simply put these files on your memory stick and open the PSP web browser pointing it to the correct location.

Download: Japanese Flashcard Learning Tool

This tool will definitely serve useful for those who wish to learn the language – it’s based on Javascript so the PSP is not necessarily required but it is formatted to fit the screen nicely, and lets not fail to mention portable! Enjoy!

And great work Phil!