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The Chinese Radical Decks

Back at the end of February, I posted my Japanese Radical Deck. That was meant to help Japanese students build a framework so that they could actually remember Japanese kanji. In the comments thread, there was a fair bit of discussion as to how to modify that deck to make it work for Mandarin or Cantonese.

Chinese Radical Decks

In the meantime, a reader, Peter Membrey, contacted us and asked if he could commission something related to Cantonese. We found someone who could modify our Japanese deck for Cantonese and Mandarin, and poof! We now have 3 new, fancy radical decks: (more…)

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Japanese Tutorial 1: How to Type in Japanese on a Mac

Japanese Tutorial 1: How To Type in Japanese on a Mac

Hi everyone! I’ve been planning on blogging about Japanese for a long, long while, but I wanted to finish the Korean trainer beforehand, and Korean ended up taking 2-3x longer than expected.

But! It’s finally done, so this month I’m going to be blogging a fair bit. Our first entry is a quick tutorial on how to type in Japanese on a Mac, since we’ll need that working for all the other tutorials to make sense. (more…)

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