Curl flashcard maker for Conning's Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course

Did you recently acquire the 2nd Ed. of Halpern's Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary ? The 2nd Ed. has the Unicode value for the kanji. In the example below that value is 9801.

Here is a snap of the Curl applet that I use on my desktop with the Unicode values found in Andrew Scott Conning's 2013 Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course : ( note the 4 markup macros named EmFontSize, CardFontSize, FrontSide and KJ )

customized Curl flashcard

Some Curl flashcard markup proposals in the testbed viewer :

See
 http://www.aule-browser.com/flashcards/flashcard-kanji-03.dcurl
for Curl desktop code or
 flashcards/flashcard-kanji-03.curl
to run a test in the browser.

The test markup is

{EmFontSize 36pt}
{CardFontSize 18pt}
{CardBackground "blue"}
{HiLight "red"}

    {FrontSide color="gold", 

 日本語の漢字は {KJ \u9801} がです。
}

Curl flashcard markup

Here are three snaps of user editing flashcard output format using Curl as the markup :

then after an edit

then after a Curl markup edit

joyo kanji

I have added a Curl applet with the joyo kanji from the 2010 revision (that's 2136 dictionary entries from kanjidic2.)

I discuss the features over at my Curl Community blog. Here's the short account: suppose you are at 919; enter 40 and press ENTER.  Once the generic "water" kanji displays, the RIGHT INNER button beside the thin top right-arrow will let you "jump back up" to this 919 "window" kanji.

If you instead jump forward by entering 1926, you can "jump back" with the left "inner" button which is beside of the skinny LEFT arrow at the top.

Why the "jumps" ? The code was needed to add "red" and "green" buttons to a list on which to base "spaced-repetition".

A desktop version for Mac, linux or windows is about 24-hours away.

The list is just a CSV file, so you could move the applet to your own machine if you have a simple script in Rebol or the like - but it will then be a local browser page.  The desktop version will use no browser and store ts state in client-side persistent data instead of cookies.

Tuttle Kanji Flashcard app

At http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/tuttle-henshall-kanji.html there is now a Curl applet for the Tuttle kanji cards ( I am still on the red flashcard set ! )

I used this card as a reminder of the Bayware "Power" Kanji software for Windows 95 later marketed by Transparent Language as Kanji Power2 or some such.  That software had some real strengths in its visual interactive approach to syntax and post-position particles for Who-Where-When-verb basics and modifier-before-modified.

The strength of the Tuttle cards is that each flashcard includes four 2-Kanji combinations with the Kanji of that card.  At my age, my quarrel is with the small font for these - also an issue with the O'Neill paperback.

Font-size is even an issue in Firefox with the Perapera plugin as using CTRL-+ for the browser window content causes the plugin's popups to explode in size.

The Curl* applet illustrated above includes the UNICODE value and the Henshall number.

Request a variant, and I can produce it in about an hour (skip-code, Nelson etc) so long as the information is in the Kanjidic2 XML file.

I will post a download link for the CSV file for the Tuttle flash card set for anyone using Excel or the like.  Now to go look on-line for the "green" set ...

* Curl requires the Curl browser plugin from curl.com or curlap.com (in Japanese.) Curl is in version 8.0 and is very secure and my preferred alternative to Java as both language and browser plugin.  I will add desktop versions today or soon.

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