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HiraKata Quiz for iPhone released

kumo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:49:55 +0000

I have released an iPhone version of my hiragana and katakana quizes. My intention is to link together the web version of the quizes with the iPhone so that you can keep track of your progress and continue your learning, whether you are on the bus or sitting at your computer. It is called HiraKata Quiz and it can be found on the app store here.

Hiragana/Katakana quiz update

kumo — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:09:48 +0000

I have updated the hiragana and katakana quizes and I hope they are now easier to use.

I have split the text box on the question page into multiple text boxes so that there is one for each hiragana or katakana. I hope that this is clearer than the previous version where one had to insert a space between each romanji.

*Click on image*The _results page_ might actually be useful now as it shows you not only how many times you got a katakana or hiragana correct, but also how many times you got the row of characters (e.g. the ‘k’ row with ka, ki, ku, ke, ko) right so you can decide to reconfigure the quiz and choose some different rows.As always, the quizes can be found at “quiz.kumo.it”:http://quiz.kumo.it so enjoy! If there are any problems, or you don’t like how I have changed something, or you have new ideas please write to me on my “guestbook”:/guestbook or at “kumo@kumo.it”:mailto:kumo@kumo.it

Katakana quiz is back online too!

kumo — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:09:00 +0000

Well I was able to sort out the problems that I described in my previous post and so now the new katakana quiz can be found here!

Hiragana quiz is back online…

kumo — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:58:00 +0000

I used to have some php scripts for learning hiragana and katakana but they stopped working when I changed servers. I took the change to begin rewriting them (in ruby on rails) and finally I have the first version of the hiragana quiz online. It is still basically the same as the old version but at least the code is much cleaner and I should be able to add new features without too much trouble.

Anyway, the new hiragana quiz can be found “here”:http://quiz.kumo.it/hiragana/start.

Good luck!

!http://www.kumo.it/files/hiragana_quiz.png!

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*UPDATE:* The dns problems seem to have been resolved so the quiz is back online again!

Site changes

kumo — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:03:00 +0000

oops… something has gone wrong…

My switch from custom html (hand-crufted for NetPositive, Opera 3.x, Netscape 4, IE 5, lynx/links, etc.) to using pre-made software is not going well. Pages are missing, incomplete, and messed up. The hiragana/katakana stuff has just refused to work again.

Only time will tell what happens…

Hiragana Fixes

kumo — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:28:00 +0000

I have updated the internals of hiragana quiz and
fixed a few problems that people were having with it. I have tested it, but not
enough so if you spot problems can you please get in touch with me. Thank you!

Katakana Initial Release

kumo — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:27:00 +0000

Initial version of the learning katakana script.

Hiragana Script

kumo — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:33:00 +0000

Finishing off the “learning hiragana”:/japan/learn_hiragana script.