- NEW!! Kanji Game: "Add Two Strokes to 口"
- Raising bilingual and biliterate children: My experience, Part 2"
- Adventures in Kanji-Land: James W. Heisig and the Birth of Remembering
the Kanji
An interview with James W. Heisig by Juan Rivera
- Popular New Japanese Words, 2006
Explains 10 new kanji compounds.
- Popular New Japanese Words, 2005
Explains 10 new kanji compounds and one new word written in romaji.
- Popular New Japanese Words, 2004
Explains 10 new kanji compounds and 10 new foreign loanwords written in
katakana.
- English/Japanese names for the 214 radicals
Provided by
Prof. David M. Mosher, Hijiyama University, Hiroshima
- 「漢字の効果的な教え方:構成要素分析」
This is a speech presented by Mary Sisk
Noguchi at the 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Japanese
Language Educators (CAJLE). It details her kanji learning experience and
introduces component analysis for learning kanji.
- An Introduction to Japanese Names for JSL
Learners from Non-kanji Using Backgrounds
Read this and stop being confused by Japanese names.
- UPDATED! Kanji Bloopers
Kanji confusion can led to some embarrassing moments. Read anecdotes sent
to KanjiClinic.com by kanji learners from around the world.
- Kanji for Level 1 of the Nihongo Noryoku Shiken
114
non-general use kanji you need to know for Level 1 of the Japanese Language
Proficiency Test
- "12 Super Kanji-Learning
Sites"
Teachers! Download this concise 2-page guide to online kanji learning .
Your students will thank you for making a copy for each of them.
- "Which Japanese-English Character
Dictionary Can Best Meet Your Kanji-Learning Needs?"
This paper compares
the following four character dictionaries: Nelson's The Modern Reader's
Japanese-English Character Dictionary, Haig's The New Nelson Japanese-English
Character Dictionary, Spahn and Hadamitzky's The Kanji Dictionary, and Halpern's
New Japanese-English Character Dictionary.
- Easy to use reference chart detailing the unique features of the
four dictionaries listed above.
- Comments on a Dissertation Dealing with
James W. Heisig’s Approach to Kanji Memorization, by Timothy W. Richardson,
Ph.D.
Dr. Richardson's dissertation explores the possibility of
James Heisig's kanji learning system being used for the learning of Chinese.
Ordering information for the dissertation is included.
- The Evaluation of Computer Assisted Kanji Study Materials, by Howard Brown
An in-depth analysis of the kanji learning software Lexikan 2.0.
- シリーズ4/Part
4
シリーズ3/Part 3
シリーズ2/Part 2
シリーズ1/Part 1
外来語を学ぼう!/Let's Learn
About Gairaigo (Loanwords)!
Short articles, in Japanese and English, about
gairaigo, each with a quiz.
- Kanji Proficency
Test (Kanken) 日本漢字能力検定
General information about the Kanken and sample
tests for determining the level of your kanji proficiency, including
handwriting
- "Component Analysis of Kanji for Learners from Non-Kanji Using
Countries"
This paper proposes the need for a nontraditional, analytic
approach to kanji learning designed specifically for adults from non-kanji
backgrounds. It describes the work of three textbook writers who employ
component analysis, and presents various component analysis learning activities.
- "Raising bilingual and biliterate children: My experience, Part 1"
- "A
journey with two routes"
"The day
we met Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan's
send-off"
Other articles in The Japan Times by Mary Sisk Noguchi, using the pen name "Barbara Sumner."These do not deal with kanji learning.