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J-Ben is a Japanese study program.
J-Ben is software for studying Japanese, especially "kanji", which are the Chinese characters used when writing Japanese. It should be an excellent study aid for people studying for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), but can no doubt assist anyone studying Japanese who is trying to master how to read and write kanji.
J-Ben is FREE SOFTWARE and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. (Its dictionary files are under separate licenses.) In a nutshell: you're free to copy and distribute this program freely. If you want to make changes to the software package though, read the licenses since restrictions do apply.
J-Ben is designed to work on Windows 2000 or later (with East Asian font support installed), as well as most modern Linux distributions. It has been tested directly using Windows XP Professional and Debian GNU/Linux "Sid".
What does it do?
J-Ben functions as a basic kanji dictionary: copy/paste or type one or more kanji into the program, and the program will give you information about all of the kanji it finds. This information includes the different readings of the kanji, the English meanings, stroke count, Jouyou grade levels, dictionary cross-reference codes, and much more. This information is supplied by the KANJIDIC dictionary file from Monash University.
J-Ben also lets you define a list of Kanji to study. It can read in Kanji from a text file, or it can query the KANJIDIC dictionary and add kanji based on newspaper frequency ranking or by Jouyou grade level. You can also sort added-in kanji by grade level or newspaper frequency allowing you to spend more of your time studying kanji of higher importance to your studies. You can also easily thumb through kanji in your study list in the dictionary, too!
Finally, J-Ben features a kanji flash card mode. Choose how many kanji you want to study, choose whether you want them chosen randomly from your list or from a specific point in your list, and choose whether you want to do reading or writing practice. J-Ben will then drill you through the kanji you've selected. It will track which kanji you mark as wrong, run you through the kanji you missed until you get them right, and at the end will print a percentage score and a list of kanji which you marked as wrong.
In the future: I plan to add English-Japanese, Japanese-English dictionary capabilities. Also planned are a vocab flash card mode, and an addition to the kanji dictionary tab where it'll also tell you commonly used words which use the kanji you searched for.
What dictionaries are available?
J-Ben is powered by the publicly available free dictionary files EDICT and KANJIDIC, from Monash University.
EDICT is a general purpose Japanese-English dictionary which can be searched both to and from Japanese. (Currently EDICT support is not implemented.)
KANJIDIC contains extensive information about kanji characters. This includes Jouyou grade levels (the grades in which Japanese students learn the kanji), frequency rankings for the top 2501 characters (based upon analysis of the Mainichi Shimbun over 4 years), stroke count, dictionary reference codes, and other information.
What's New in This Release:
· The makefile was changed to support "make install" and to better handle intermediate build files.
· Linux builds now follow the File Hierarchy Standard.
· The software now uses libiconv for handling charset conversions.
· All wxWidgets-specific code has been removed from non-GUI classes with the exception of the error log.
· A DocBook manual has been written and is now on the project Web site.

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