I am planning to write some software that helps you learn the Japanese language. It will be based on a flash-card approach where you choose a topic and view flash cards that show sentences or words in English and you have to remember how to say them in Japanese.

At first you may not know anything so you would start with basic symbols (Hiragana and Katakana). There are about 46 of these to learn. Hopefully I can include audio too so you get to hear the pronounciation too.

Next there would be simple sentences shown in English where you learn how to say them in Japanese.

So you would learn by repetition. Using software it should hopefully be quicker to learn than with a phrase book and tapes. One reason it would be quicker is that the software would learn which things you have mastered and cut them out.

This software would not be a substitute for formal lessons but it could be a great way to get your knowledge of vocabulary and basic phrases up to speed.

Update:

Well it seemed like a good idea at the time but there is already very good yet cheap software already in the market so I decided not to persue this idea. Some software I downloaded to try out was from Declan Software and it was very impressive and at a low cost.

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