From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 7 6:30:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tick.ssec.wisc.edu (tick.ssec.wisc.edu [144.92.108.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604F715801 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 06:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dglo@tick.ssec.wisc.edu) Received: from tick.ssec.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tick.ssec.wisc.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA23965; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:28:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Glowacki Message-Id: <199904071328.IAA23965@tick.ssec.wisc.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Learning Japanese for native English speaker In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:15:47 MDT." <199904062215.QAA80385@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:28:04 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > I'd like to learn Japanese so I might communicate with some Japanese > hackers that are doing cool things in areas that I'm interested in. In > addition, I'd like to be able to read most tecnical web pages. I'd also > like to know what good software to deal with 16-bit character sets (kanji, > hiragana and katakana) which people use. I'm an emacs user if that matters. > > Thank you for any pointers you can give me that would further my quest. I'm trying to pick up some Japanese, too, so I'd appreciate you forwarding anything you find. I've found the following: http://www.bolthole.com/kdrill/ Kanji Drill program http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html A page on EDICT, the online Japanese/English dictionary http://www.righto.com/ Ken Shirriff has Kana/Kanji quiz programs for Java and PalmOS Good luck in your search! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message