I have been working on learning the Hiragana alphabet for about a month. Progress was slow initially, but I was getting up to speed, when I realized my method would probably not scale further. I had installed Kanatest previously, but somehow had not figured out how it could help me and had dropped using it. But I went back to it, and I must say after experimenting with Bryn Dyment’s excellent Real Kana website, I realized that I could do something similar with Kanatest. I must say that I have become a real fan, and improved in both the Hiragana and the Katakana set which I was not learning before, since I basically drew the characters on a sheet of paper over and over. You can install and run Kanatest easily on the Ubuntu operating system.
The coolest thing is that when doing a search on wiki’s, I ran across a group on Facebook named in Japanese and I picked up WIKI spelled in Katakana characters (I hope this displays right) !
WIKI - ウイキ
I wonder how I would spell XWiki ?
