Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.

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String comparison: * Levenshtein Distance * Damerau-Levenshtein Distance * Jaro Distance * Jaro-Winkler Distance * Match Rating Approach Comparison * Hamming Distance

Phonetic encoding:

* American Soundex * Metaphone * NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System) * Match Rating Codex

There are 214 radicals. Don't worry about learning all of them! I doubt most Japanese can recognize and name them all. However, if you memorize some of the important radicals, they will help you to figure out the meanings of many kanji.

rikaichan is a popup Japanese-English/German/French/Russian dictionary extension for Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey.

Features:

* Simple to use, just hover the mouse on top of a Japanese word. * Automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives. * Has an optional toolbar that allows you to manually type the word to lookup. * Detailed kanji view shows meaning/keyword in English, on/kun readings, and other information. * Hiragana, katakana and half-width katakana are treated the same making it possible to lookup stylized/emphasized words.

When Fija first started studying Uchinaaguchi, there were no classes for people wanting to learn the language, so he surrounded himself with elderly speakers and organized a small group of people who shared his interest. It took Fija 12 years to reach his current level of fluency and he's determined to smooth the way for future students.

Most Japanese textbooks only go over a small subset of what you need to learn Japanese, typically covering a certain amount of grammar and vocabulary with a smattering of dialogues and readings. However, mastering a language requires much more than just learning grammar and vocabulary. What most Japanese textbooks fail to recognize is that they can't possibly hope to cover all the necessary vocabulary and kanji (Chinese characters) to obtain full fluency. This guide fully recognizes that it cannot teach you everything word by word and character by character. Instead, it will give you a solid understanding of the fundamentals with a wide collection of dialogues and examples. In addition, it will go over various techniques and tools to enable you to teach yourself. Essentially, this book is a guide on how you can learn Japanese to complete fluency by actually using Japanese in the areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

There's also a katakana quiz and various kanji training exercises.

Click on the parts that are in the kanji you are looking for. You can click on them again to de-select them.

Open source Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing and text analytics, with distributions for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

Convert Kanji (漢字) and Websites to Romaji or Hiragana (and translate Japanese to English, too).

A resource for studying Japanese and kanji, improving vocabulary or reading manga & anime.

With most nihongo, the translator has an accuracy rate of about 99.5%.

Welcome to the only site on the web featuring an eclectic mix of Japanese verb conjugation and gratuitous pictures of alien monsters