This is a handy little gadget that I picked up at Bic today. You know those little stacks of cards connected with a ring that Japanese use to study English vocab? This is an electronic version of that. You can enter your own words in an separate application on your PC and then sync it to the memoribo. Test your knowledge of English vocab while on the train, waiting in line etc. Of course, I don’t plan to use it to learn English, you can download a list of 1700 kanji from their website and upload that to the memoribo. Gonna try it out right now! Get a Memoribo
Very smart
How do you like it? Did you try the kanji function? Does it show both on and kunyomi? How about meanings in English of the kanji characters?
I downloaded the kanji content and it was not what I expected. Lots of fairly difficult kanji vocab and then reading of the word is embedded in a sentence. It doesn’t tell you want it means. Not targeted for Nihongo learners. But it’s easy for me to just enter my own custom content. You can imporst csv data so I’ll look around for all the kanji and readings somewhere and convert it, shouldn’t be to difficult.
So you can use it to practice kanji kunyomi and kanji onyomi, if I understand you right. Can you also use it to study kanji English? Can you also keep track of the correct and incorrect answers you gave? I am using kanjigold on my PC and it keeps track of my answers. If I answer a kanji correctly, it appears less often and if I answer incorrectly, it will re-appear more often (the so-called “on time” function in kanjigold).
You can’t do any of those things out of the box, the memoribo was intended for Japanese to learn English vocab. But you can input custom content via included application and also import csv content. I’m trying to do that with kanji
I see. I think that for the time being I will stick with using KanjiGold and not spend money on this gadget.
Yeah, it will take me a while and a bit of effort before the memoribo is of any use :(
Also, I downloaded kanjigold after you mentioned it. Very nice, thanks!
Oh, you did not know KanjiGold yet? It is the only software tool I use to learn kanji. One of its neat features is that you can “feed it” the list of kanji that you want to study. I am using that feature: I write a file that contains the kanji that appear in the textbook that I am using. And thus does KanjiGold support what I learn from the book. In that way do I not get confronted with kanji of which I do not know how they are used in an actual sentence or setting. Besides that, do I use the “on time” feature. This makes that the kanji that are easy for me do not get repeated so often, and the kanji that are difficult to me appear often.
Did you ever get your gadget to display kanji using the imported csv content? The study bug is coming on and I feel like getting a new gadget just might help me kick start the fever.