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		<title>Kotoba &#8211; Best Flashcards Ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kotoba is a simple flashcard program designed to help the user learn Japanese by running through vocabulary that you set up in the lexicon/dictionary. It&#8217;s really easy &#8211; set up your dictionary with your own set of vocabulary (Or download one from their site that others have submitted. I used the professioncy test as a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kung-foo.tv/kotoba/index.php">Kotoba</a> is a simple flashcard program designed to help the user learn Japanese by running through vocabulary that you set up in the lexicon/dictionary. It&#8217;s really easy &#8211; set up your dictionary with your own set of vocabulary (Or <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kung-foo.tv/kotoba/index.php#9">download one</a> from their site that others have submitted. I used the professioncy test as a base and have been adding words as I think of them, personally.) and then press play. It&#8217;ll just start running flipping through each word first showing the <em>Kanji</em>, then it&#8217;s phoenetic spelling using <em>kana</em>, and finally the English translation.</p>
<div id="attachment_129" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://liliy.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/kotoba1.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-129" title="Kotoba" src="http://liliy.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/kotoba1-300x187.png" alt="Why so serious? Learning Words is Fun!" width="300" height="187" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Why so serious? Learning Words is Fun!</p></div>
<p>As you can see above, I can just leave it running on my dual monitor. It&#8217;s a way to work without really working. ^^ Just the repetition of seeing and reading the words every once in a while is good to boost memory. It&#8217;s almost subconcious and also sort of works as a screensaver when my second monitor is just sitting there doing nothing&#8230;heh.</p>
<div id="attachment_130" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 304px"><a href="http://liliy.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/kotoba2.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-130" title="Kotoba Lexicon" src="http://liliy.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/kotoba2.png" alt="Screenshot of Kotoba Lexicon Editing Tool" width="294" height="206" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot of Kotoba Lexicon Editing Tool</p></div>
<p>And as you can see, the Dictionary is easy to edit and maintain as well. Just click &#8216;Add&#8217; and fill in the blanks. -Which also means that you can use any language you want! You could write in spanish and then fill in the translation leaving the &#8216;kana&#8217; section blank. Kotoba works exactly the same way no matter what you fill in the blanks. ^_^ You could probably use it for just about anything that requires flashcards.</p>
<p>Sadly, this program is Mac-only. While normally that would have me shouting for joy &#8211; I&#8217;d love to have this program at work which is Windows Only. So, if any of you happen to spot a Windows equivelent please drop me a line!  <img src='http://liliy.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/smilies-themer/xpressions-green/hugegrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>P.S. This is my first post using the absolutley awesome <a target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-2/trackback/">WordPress 2.7 Beta 2.</a> It&#8217;s so awesome. *_*</p>
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