Tuesday 5 August 2014

Note on Kanji Recognition Texts


漢字 · かんじ

Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

About the KanjiRecog pages : an article reduced to fixed columns without most of its kana cannot be READ, but the task for a kanji learner is to be forced to RECOGNIZE and identify and notice and recall.

Some katakana show up less ; some hiragana are not in common use and it can be instructive to ask : is that the katakana character or the VERY similar kanji ( there are a few of these. )

Sometimes I use my editor to reset the single column of text to 5 characters wide, sometimes 50 ... the recognition challenge changes. At 5 wide, for me, the kana stand out clearly as do many duplicates in a text.

But you will not likely be aware of what tips you off that THIS kanji is not what you expected and that one is its duplicate. You don't need to learn it now : the exercise is for your capacity to discern features. Some of it you will need to do actively, but much of it comes passively if you look at enough kanji !




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