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Wouldn’t it be useful to have a Dictionary always at hand when you study Japanese? The application zKanji can be installed on your own PC to support your studies.
It has built-in word and kanji dictionaries, and an optional (but highly recommended) database of sentence examples. It is extremely versatile when used as a study tool, helping with issues such as verb and adjective conjugations and finding out which particles are used with a verb, as well as the more obvious issues of vocabulary acquisition and learning to read kanji. The dictionary in zKanji can be used in two different modes; Full Size and Popup. Full Size Mode If you start the program normally, there will be three windows on the screen, one of which is the dictionary (the other two are the kanji window, and the study groups window). Popup If you click the minimize button on any of these windows, all three disappear and an icon for zKanji appears in your system tray. When zKanji is minimized, you can use the dictionary as a small popup window in the lower right hand corner of your screen. (You can adjust its size as needed.) This helps when you want to look at something else at the same time– like the chat box at the StudyJapanese web site. You can make the popup visible by right clicking on the zKanji icon in the sytem tray and selecting either “Japanese to English” or “English to Japanese.” (You can also configure keyboard shortcuts, like Ctrl+Alt+J and Ctrl+Alt+E to carry out these commands.) In the image below, the zKanji icon is the icon in the system tray which is a white box containing part of the red kanji 字 in handwritten style, and the popup dictionary is the window above the system tray. Learn Hiragana When the dictionary is in Japanese to English mode, it will convert roomaji (Roman letters) into hiragana as you type them into the Search window. If you type in words you are familiar with in roomaji, this is an easy way to see what they look like spelled in hiragana. It can also be used in place of an IME (input method)– you can copy and paste the hiragana which appear in the Search window into another program (e.g. the StudyJapanese chat box). In the image below, the white text highlighted with blue is the result of typing “wakarimashita” or “wakarimasita.” Practice Conjugating Verbs and Adjectives First make sure that the inflection (“Inf”) button is toggled on (it will be blue) and that you are in Japanese to English mode. Now if you type an inflected word into the Search window, such as “wakarimashita” (わかりました), the dictionary will not only select the verb “wakaru” (分かる, わかる) in the results list, it will also tell you that the inflection you have typed in is the polite past (at the beginning of the meaning column– see image above). Similarly, if you type in “hanasemasen”, it will tell you that this is the potential, polite negative form of the verb “hanasu”, meaning “to speak” (see image below), and if you type in “tanoshikatta”, it will tell you that this is the (plain) past form of the adjective “tanoshii”, meaning “enjoyable” or “fun”. If you type in a wrong spelling, such as “kitte” when you really meant “kite”, you will find out that you have conjugated a different verb than you intended to, or that you have written something which is not a correct spelling of a conjugation of any verb. Check which particles go with a verb Is it “nihongo o wakarimasu” or “nihongo ga wakarimasu”? If you’re not sure, type “wakarimasu” or “wakaru” into the Search window. Make sure that the examples (“Ex”) button is toggled on and that you have installed the examples database file. You can now step through many example sentences containing forms of the verb wakarimasu, and see what particles occur just before it (the form of “wakaru” will always appear in red). Press the forwards triangle button to get to the next sentence. You will find that “ga” often occurs, as does “wa”, and (less often) “to”, but that “o” never appears. (See the example sentence in the image with わかりました (wakarimashita) highlighted in blue.) Explore how any word is used in the context of a sentence Not sure how to use the word “suki”? Follow the instructions above, typing “suki” into the Search box. If there are words you don’t know in an example sentence, position the mouse pointer over the word to get its pronunciation, and click on the word to go to its definition. Since you will still have the same example sentence showing, you can click on 好き to get back to more sentences for “suki.” This is a very powerful tool for anyone studying the Japanese language. Sharing Widget |