#7 The Japan-related Web. Part 1: What it is
Yesterday we talked about entertainment on the Japan-related web.
Today we are going to discuss our third category: services and web-tools.
In this series, “services” has a very loose definition.
Japan-related forums where you can ask questions to your peers, social networking sites, and hotel booking sites are all lumped together as services.
Web-tools, for example, would include things like online Japanese dictionaries,
kanji character flashcards, and train schedule tools.
Personally this is one category of the J-web that really excites me and I think it will be growing a good deal in the future.
What do you think? What services and tools do you like best?
On the internet in general there are services and tools available to help with all sorts of problems (services for managing finances, wikis for organising all of your information, and more).
Are there similar services for solving problems foreigners in
What are these needs and problems?
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January 14, 2008
Here are some of my favourite web tools:
1)
http://rikai.com (great assistance for reading Japanese on the web)
2)
Jim Breen’s Dictionary
3)
Japan-related firefox addons:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=japan&status=4
January 16, 2008
I’ve used and liked SpeedAnki.com for learning kanji: http://www.speedanki.com/
January 18, 2008
Speedanki is great. It makes me wonder why I bought those tuttle kanji cards… But you can’t take speedanki everywhere with you.
January 19, 2008
Do any of you use the train tool at
http://www.jorudan.co.jp/english/norikae/e-norikeyin.html ?