This is the official web page for the Kanji Crammer application for Mac OS X written by Charles Higgins. I hope you like it. It is a Universal Binary so it runs natively
on PowerPC or Intel Macintoshes. Most of the features don't require a high powered machine. I also run it on an old 400 MHz iMac just fine. It has been tested on Leopard
and Snow Leopard.
I wrote this program to prepare for the Japanese proficiency test but it has become much more than that. The program has two uses: one is for people learning vocabulary, the other is for people, like linguists, who wish to catalog the sounds of a person's native language.
A description of the program for the people who wish to catalog sounds is here
Here is another take on what Kanji Crammer is:
Kanji Crammer is an Open Source slide show/flash card program for learning Japanese Kanji, also known as Chinese characters.
In addition to decks for Japanese and Chinese, it is able to use decks, which use other scripts, like Korean, English, and Thai.
Requires Mac OS X (10.2 or better). Supports audio and various dictionary files. Good for learning vocabulary. Kanji Crammer
can also be used by linguists in the field for recording the native pronunciations of the word lists. It will organize the
recordings and make it easy to begin analysis once in the lab.
Also:
1) You can create your own decks of flash cards.
2) You can record your own audio for any language.
3) You can view a spectrogram of the sound associated with a card.
4) You can create a slide show of those spectrograms.
5) You can prompt and record with text, a spectrogram, or any picture.
6) You can view the tone contour of a sound.
7) You can set the formants of vowel sounds and create a vowel chart.
8) General tool to aid in the study of linguistics.
A screenshot is here.
Help found here.
The readme included in the package can be found here.
Some links.
Download version 1.3.6 of Kanji Crammer.
All old versions( 66 megs ) of Kanji Crammer.
feedback welcome: chiggins63 ⟨at⟩ hotmail ⟨dot⟩ com