Kana Helper



Hiragana (phoneme)   Hiragana (kana)
Katakana (phoneme)   Katakana (kana)
A random kana is chosen and you must choose its phoneme   A random phoneme is chosen and you must choose its kana



The mechanics of the above tutors are explained here. I wrote them with the phoneme version in mind, but all behave the same way.

These pages were created to help me learn kana. It was very effective, and took only a couple hours -- much more useful (for me) than flash cards.

I stole the images/sounds contained on these pages from this Japanese learning website created by Takasugi Shinji.

Note: Japanese fonts are not necessary to use this helper. Images are used to represent kana. Also, it was tested with Internet Explorer 5/6.

If you want to use this locally, you can get it here (285k). You will need something like WinRAR to unpack it.