Hiragana Trainer
October 3rd, 2007
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.

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
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