naraimasu: Kanjibox and kanji look alikes

Favourite kanji app of the moment and kanji look alikes

One of my favourite iPhone apps of the moment is Kanjibox .

This app ties in well with one of my goals for the next few months, to learn the jlpt level 3 kanji (new level 4?).

I really fight with kanji look alikes, and am trying all sorts of different ways to remember which kanji is which. With this app I have one little method, which, together with several others, might help me get there in the end.

Studying Kanjibox in Kanji mode one is presented with 4 kanjis and one meaning. Very often the kanji presented are look alikes . Quite often I get answer wrong and and an angry red box at the bottom of the screen blinks back at me.

If I know the meaning of the kanji presented but not the look alike, I press the look alike. I am, ofcourse, wrong, but both the kanjis are presented at the bottom of the screen and I can take the screen shot.

I download the screenshot to my computer, edit the picture. and am gradually building up a list of look alikes.

I've named each look alike set with a short phrase from the definition presented so it helps me remember the two look alikes.

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