NOTES ON VOCABULARY DRILL 2.1 ============================= Vocabulary Drill 2.1 is a little program that I wrote to help me study Japanese vocabulary words (although you can use the program to study vocabulary lists of any kind: SAT, GRE, French, etc..). The program comes with several thousand beginning Japanese words in files that correspond to the vocabulary lists in the textbook "Japanese for Busy People", volume I, by the Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (Kodansha Internation, Tokyo). In the Autumn of 1994, I enrolled in first-year Japanese at Stanford with the incredible Professor Busbin. I found that flash cards were time-consuming to make, and didn't really force me to learn how to correctly spell words. We learned the Roman character (phonetic) spellings of the words, and then later used hirigana and katakana to write them. Until I figure out how to use Japanese fonts on the Macintosh, the program will remain using roman characters. (sorry!) The program is very simple. You can click on a vocabulary word file to open it when the program starts up, and you will be drilled on all of the words (presented in a random order). Your response must EXACTLY match the correct response specified in the vocabulary file. After you have been drilled on all of the words, you can review all of the words that you missed, until you have answered them all correctly. Good luck with all of your memorization endeavors. Gambatte kudasai! -JJK MORE ON VOCABULARY WORD FILES =============================== The vocabulary word files are just simple text files that you can edit with Teachtext, or your favorite word processor (NOTE: remember to save them as a plain text file!). IMPORTANT: In order for the program to read a vocabulary file, it must be included in the same directory as the program itself. This is because I developed the program on a UNIX platform that doesn't understand Macintosh pathnames. Sorry! DISTRIBUTION NOTICE ==================== Copyright (c) 1994 James Kuffner, Jr. All rights reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of this software and that you do not sell the software. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. I developed the program in a UNIX environment, but ported it to the Macintosh platform using Think C. I apologize for the crummy user interface. If I ever have the time, I will try to improve it. As stated above, this software is free, but I enjoy comments and suggestions. Author: James Kuffner, Jr Computer Science Department Stanford University U.S.A. email: kuffner@stanford.edu http://robotics.stanford.edu/~kuffner