[Launcher] WaKan - Japanese & Chinese learning tool

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[Launcher] WaKan - Japanese & Chinese learning tool

#1 Post by joby_toss »

WaKan is a versatile tool for students of Japanese or Chinese. It features a character dictionary, a word dictionary, a text editor, a vocabulary management utility, many printing options (character flashcards, vocabulary lists, text including furigana), and a text translation tool. will allow you to read real Japanese or Chinese text with minimum knowledge of characters and vocabulary.

Features
Unified interface for Japanese and Chinese.
EXPERIMENTAL - Popup tool that displays translation for text on screen. Works with many Windows applications (like Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Microsoft Word, etc.))]
Simple Japanese text editor with automatic kanji conversion and dictionary entry display for inputted words
Editor displays meaning of words and characters as you browse through the file
Character dictionary with many search options (searching by kun or on reading, PinYin reading, radicals, stroke count, Unicode code, Jouyou grade, SKIP code and FourCornerCode)
Automatic Japanese text translator - adds furigana to every kanji in text and tries to display the meaning of each word
Printing of annotated text including furigana and word meaning hints, traditional vertical right-to-left printing is also possible
You can completely avoid Roman letters (except when inputting words) or you can display everything in Roman letters as you want
Program supports three Japanese Romanization systems (English - Hepburn, Japanese - Kunreisiki and Czech) for inputting words
Program supports three Chinese Romanization systems (PinYin, Wade-Giles and Yale), phonetics can also by displayed in BoPoMoFo
Toneless Chinese searching (you do not need to type the tone numbers in order to locate a word)
Character searching by several radicals (if you do not know which part of the character is the radical) and stroke count range (if you cannot determine the exact stroke count)
Printing character cards - great tool for memorizing characters
Wealth of information about each character - character usage frequency, Jouyou grade, etc.
Character dictionary includes about 20,000 characters, simplified variant is shown for traditional characters (simplified characters are used in mainland China).
Displaying word compounds for each character (words that contain selected character)
Searching as you type - both character dictionary and word dictionary display results immediately as you type
Locates inflected forms of verbs, adjectives and adverbs
Intelligent ordering of search results (according to frequency of usage, etc.)
Vocabulary management - you can organize words you want to learn in different vocabulary categories
You do not need to install IME to be able to use this software. Romanized input is converted internally by the program
Can be used with any EDICT-format dictionary

System requirements
-Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
-Japanese and Chinese fonts installed (recommended are: MS Mincho, MS Gothic, SimSun and MingLiU from Windows XP or Internet Explorer)
-128 MB RAM recommended
-at least 800x600 resolution (1024x768 strongly recommended)

FAQ & Forum

As far as i can check there are no settings written outside the application's folder but it does write to the registry.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/178496737/WaKan_PJ.7z.html
http://www.mediafire.com/?l25waf5damh
Please see "readme_PJ.txt" inside "Docs" folder.

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#2 Post by I am Baas »

Awesome. Thank you so much.

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