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Steve Basnof:
Howdy.

So I've been studying Japanese for three years and there's getting to be a lot of vocabulary that we're being taught, and a lot of it that I'm forgetting because I'm just not using it.

I was wanting to compile all the vocab/kanji I've learned and compile it in an spreadsheet, then make a simple program to choose random words and quiz me on them. (Jaruden had a little browser based quiz that he put up on the old boxtorrents site a while ago that he used to quiz himself on hiragana.)

I don't know how to program things but I would like to maybe know what kind of programming I should learn that will make it easy for me to make something like this. It really doesn't need to be fancy, it just needs to be able to do sort of what Jaruden's quiz thing did, display a Japanese word and then quiz me on either it's reading or it's English definition.

Anyone know what would be best for this?

Thanks.

relic2279:
Someone has already done it for you.

http://www.readthekanji.com/

I know it might not be exactly what you want, but it's an amazing little program.  And free.

Steve Basnof:
Thanks!

That's really helpful. But I would like to make a program of my own though to keep track of words that I have explicitly learned and be able to review it. (That website won't know what I have actually learned and what I haven't yet)

Basically I'd like to program something myself so I'd have the freedom to choose how I want it to display things. (I might want it to display the english definition and have me choose the Japanese word, or various other things like radicals.) Would anyone be able to tell me even what kind of code to learn or if it can be done with some kind of web based programming?

ant900:
C# using winforms seems like a good way to accomplish what you want.

Steve Basnof:
Thanks! I'll check that out

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