Facebook KanjiRecog page

There are several new posts on recall and recognition of Japanese characters over at Facebook.com/kanjiRecog.

At the same time, work is progressing on a variety of kanji, kotoba, jukugo and related app's using Curl markup from www.curl.com and www.curlap.com (Japanese site.)

This is MIT Curl, the expression-based web language from M.I.T. in Cambridge, MA,  and not cURL !

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Masaoka Shiki summer kigo haiku 1896

Here is a screenshot of my Curl applet with over one thousand summer kigo (季語)  haiku {俳句} of Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki ( 正岡 子規 ) from the year 1896, early in his mature period.

The applet has a scrolling tree kigo index, FIND and COPY. The applet in intended as an aid for recognizing kanji through reading haiku.

All kanji habe been converted from SH-JIS to utf-8.

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learn kanji software

Inter-relating kanji with Japanese syntax and conversational pragmatics is not so obvious in flashcard server software and mobile app as you might think.

Client-side Curl is not the hard part : looking at Mercury for Erlang on the server-side ( as there is no SOUL for Pharo Smalltalk.)

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Curl as flashcard markup

Over at my Curl blog I have a series of snaps from testing Curl as flashcard markup.

Here is a snap as the markup evolves to simple wiki-style CardFontStyle and such.