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Date:       2001-11-09 16:13:32
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Subject: Linux language tutors
Date: Fri,  9 Nov 2001 02:57:04 -0800 (PST)

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* Linux offers a cornucopia of software options to help you master your 
  Japanese language skills, as well as many other languages. 
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Using Linux to Study Japanese
By Eric Foster-Johnson

Linux provides a number of tools to help study foreign languages. A lot 
of this comes from the fact that Linux is truly an international 
operating system. Developers from all over the globe work to make all 
the programs included with a Linux distribution. Gjiten is one of the 
latest tools. 

Built on top of the GNOME desktop environment, Gjiten provides a 
Japanese jiten, or dictionary, using the long-available EDICT and 
KANJIDICT dictionary files and presents a GNOME-based windowed front-
end. Unlike dictionaries for most Western European languages, Japanese 
dictionaries, especially online ones, tend to be quite complicated. For 
example, Gjiten, like most Japanese dictionaries, allows you to look up 
the Kanji (literally, Chinese characters) from the Japanese phonetic 
Hiragana alphabet.

First, you enter text in Hiragana using an input method to convert 
Western European characters into Hiragana. Then, you look up the Kanji 
for that sequence of Hiragana characters; however, most Hiragana 
combinations have a number of possible Kanji, each with a different 
meaning. Electronic dictionaries like Gjiten then display the available 
Kanji choices for the Hiragana text and you choose the proper 
combination for the meaning you want to convey.

You can download Gjiten from http://gjiten.sourceforge.net. Gjiten 
depends on a number of other packages, so the installation can be a bit 
complex. You need to download the EDICT and KANJIDICT dictionary files, 
set up an X-Window input method, and install a Japanese locale 
definition. See the instructions at 
http://gjiten.sourceforge.net/gjiten-doc/installation.html for details. 
A manual appears at http://gjiten.sourceforge.net/gjiten-doc/index.html.

Other programs of interest to students of Japanese include XJDIC 
(http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/xjdic), an X-Window Japanese 
dictionary program from Jim Breen, and KanjiPad 
(http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/kanjipad) for Japanese handwriting 
recognition. KDrill (http://www.bolthole.com/kdrill) is a Kanji drill 
program, while JDrill (http://www.bolthole.com/jdrill) is a cross-
platform Java version of the same program.

In addition, Mike Fabian offers a page on CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and 
Korean) support in SuSE and other Linux distributions at 
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/suse-cjk.html.

About the author(s)
-------------------
Eric Foster-Johnson has written 14 books on Linux, Unix, programming 
and open source tools. Eric can be reached at erc@pconline.com or at
http://www.pconline.com/~erc.
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