When I first got to Japan, one of the first things they told us to buy was an electronic kanji dictionary. One of the most popular was the Canon Wordtank, which I still use today. It actually looks ...

Learning kanji is often considered to be the most difficult part of studying Japanese. But it doesn't have to be. Read the Kanji (readthekanji.com) is a fun, web-based quiz application designed to ...

Japan’s latest publishing sensation is a godsend for parents fretting over how to get their children focused on learning kanji. Unko kanji doriru (Poop Kanji Drills) applies a mountain of excrement to ...

When I first suggested in this column using Internet resources for learning kanji in 2001, a Yahoo search yielded 12,700 hits for "kanji learning." That number has now reached a staggering 1.4 million ...

Sometimes part of a kanji indicates how it may be pronounced. Looking out for these patterns can give a boost to reading skills. Foreign learners often focus on meaning when they study kanji. At a ...

For young Japanese children, learning more than 1,000 kanji characters during their six years of elementary school is a monumental task, but the addition of some toilet humour has proved a huge ...

One of the most intimidating things about learning Japanese is the writing system. There are three different sets of characters you’ll need to become proficient in, and while two of them, hiragana and ...

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