Comments on: Kanji Reading Aids

By: Bobo

Bobo — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:28:49 +0000

Hey guys right I’m using “Furigana injector” which is an addon on Firefox its excellent! Download it at addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=kanji+injector&cat=1%2C37

By: Dagur

Dagur — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:05:22 +0000

There’s a bunch of language learning extensions for Firefox out there (see addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:37?show=100&sort=updated&exp=on)

Have you guys tried them and can you recommend any of them?

By: Chiro-kun

Chiro-kun — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:46:24 +0000

理解ちゃんよりもWAKANっていう奴はどうだ？
俺の愛用だし、コピーペーストだけで単語の意味を分かれるし…まあ国語じゃないけどね。

みんな、けっぱれ！

By: カズヤ

カズヤ — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:45:15 +0000

Wow.Thanks Joe,I just tried that and it worked perfectly.I’m even more happy that I switched to Firefox now.You rock!

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:03:31 +0000

>So is it safe to use readings generated by hiragana.jp and post them into your SRS?
Always confirm them using a dictionary. If still in doubt, skip the senence. Hiragana.jp mostly fails/is incorrect on personal and place names (Tanaka Masahiro[田中正弘], etc.)

By: JDog

JDog — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:43:47 +0000

So is it safe to use readings generated by hiragana.jp and post them into your SRS?

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:43:04 +0000

Hmmm, looks like my paste got cut off. There should be a second closing paren at the end.

If you want, you can cut and paste it from my entry at www.joewright.org/var/archives/2006/11/help_for_the_ka.html

By: Saru Sponge

Saru Sponge — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:49:22 +0000

That doesn’t quite work, Joe. Is that a direct paste of what you have in ‘Location’?

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:26:24 +0000

Thanks, Joe! More stuff I wish I’d known about.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:51:01 +0000

Rikaichan is great when reading things online, but hiragana.jp is the way to go when you want to print something for offline work. And here’s another tip for using hiragana.jp:

Thanks to the miracle of bookmarklets, you don’t even need to go to the trouble of loading up Hiragana Megane and typing/copying in the URL. All you have to do is this (using Firefox; I don’t know if it works in IE or other browsers): go to your bookmark manager and create a new bookmark, then paste in the following as the “Location”:
javascript:void(document.location=’http://trans.hiragana.jp/ruby/’+escape(document.location))

I put this in my Toolbar with the description “Hiragana Meganize”. Now when I wind up at a Japanese page with kanji, I simply click my “Hiragana Meganize” bookmark on the toolbar and presto: the page is reloaded with furigana. Very, very slick.

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:44:16 +0000

Oh! Thanks, Alex. I haven’t used reading aids in a while (blows on fingernails and brushes them on collar). Thanks for letting people know about a better option :D.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:36:56 +0000

You shouldn't forget the Rikaichan Firefox extension, also. It's easier to just toggle the support on or off instead of having to copy and paste URLs. http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/