Hiragana Trainer

October 3rd, 2007

This application is somewhat obsolete now. It’s still useful for plain hiragana recognition and I won’t take it down, but you might find the Japanese Vocabulary Trainer more interesting

Instructions: Write the romanization of the phrase above (I got the romanization from here). When you press enter you’ll move on to the next entry if your answer is correct. If you need help click the hint button.

Bugs: I’m aware of two bugs right now – the blinking cursor doesn’t appear for some reason, and sometimes you’ll get “undefined.” Just refresh the page if you get that error.

I wrote this trainer application because, while I can recognize the symbols by themselves, I’m having problems recognizing hiragana in words. Don’t expect the words to make sense, all this does is put together 5 kana together at random.

Hopefully this is useful for others as well. I’ll be updating this as time goes by, and the code can easily be made into a trainer for katakana. The next step is to start building a word database so that it can be a vocabulary trainer as well.

I’m posting the source files as well. If you make any improvements, please let me know. Please excuse the messy code, I rushed this.

Source Files:
Flash: Here
XML: Here

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9 Responses to “Hiragana Trainer”

Raam

October 7th, 2007 at 11:08 am

Blinking cursor works for me. I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.7 on Mac OS X 10.4.10 with Flash 9.
Raf

October 7th, 2007 at 3:00 pm

I’m not sure what’s going on then. I just tried it at work and it doesn’t work here either.
Andre

October 9th, 2007 at 5:04 pm

This is pretty cool, Raf. Works for me in IE7, but not in FF2.0.0.7
Raf

October 9th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

I’m using firefox too and it works fine. You might need to install the latest flash player. I know sometimes IE7 and Firefox can have different versions of the player
Limpan

October 28th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Seems to be a mix up with te and to, and de and do
Fraxxx

March 26th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

Yup, ‘te’ and ‘to’ are mixed up. Good lookin though.
Peter

March 27th, 2009 at 1:04 am

Please check DE and DO its probably mistake, thanks!
Finris

August 20th, 2010 at 8:20 pm

yup, de and do are exchanged, pretty strange.
By the way, if “undefined” appears and you type “undefined”, it works
Nana

October 21st, 2011 at 5:08 pm

Pretty cool, but except for the mixed up te-to and de-do confusion,there is another mistake: should be FU and not HU!