For learners of Japanese studying vocabulary, this might be the most important insight, especially if you come from a language like English: the words aren’t composed primarily by sound or articulation in Japanese, but instead are composed primarily by meaning: combinations of a limited set of morphemes (small units of meaning) represented by kanji in written language (and spoken), mainly according to the first 3-5 rules above.
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"Kanji Word Association Tool was created for students who want to learn kanji and words at the same time in the most optimal fashion possible. Based on a user-provided list of kanji, this tool will generate a list of words that are associated with each kanji and ensure that each word consists only of kanji that you have already studied up to that point and kana. In addition, words are sorted by frequency and no duplicate words are used."
cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool
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Description:
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cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool allows users to generate 3 kinds of reports:
1) Word Frequency Report
2) Kanji Frequency Report
3) Readability Report
You may analyze a single text file or an entire directory of text
files (including sub-directories).
Before text analysis begins, all aozora formatting is removed (if present) and
a user-specified number of lines are trimmed from the beginning and end of the
text files.
By default, only files with a .txt extension will be analyzed. To change this,
edit the "extensions" setting in settings.txt.
"Lather. Rinse. Repeat… 2,042 Times
The 97-Day Kanji Challenge follows a six-step process. The first five steps only take a few minutes. Actually, step six only takes a few minutes also… but then you need to repeat it a couple thousand times."
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