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1. Your Computer Environment

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Language Depend on Browser's 1st Language
ブラウザの最上位言語の設定に依存します。
「にほんご」は、"ja"を指定してください。
"ja"以外は、「English」になります。
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Educational Font さき入水

2. Site Map for uPal (Uinited Portal for Advanced Leasrning)

  1. uPal (2006)

    1. United Podcast for Kanji Learning (2009)

    2. Associative Kanji Learning (2008)

    3. Hiragana and Katakana Quizzes (2008)

    4. Dictionary Search Using Kanji Handwriting Recognition (2009)

    5. United Translation (2008)

    6. United Links (2007)

    7. Login

    8. Logout

  2. iCampus (2004)

  3. LESSON/J (1997)

3. Operations

  1. Input Japanese sentence or URL into text box, and click parse button.
    uPal
  2. Select a word from parsing result.
    uPal
  3. Click search button or play icon of headphone.
    uPal
  4. Play synthesized sound of your selected word.
    uPal
  5. An example of configuration for main window and search window.
    Don't maxmize main window for redisplay of search window.
    右下の検索ウインドウを単語毎に再表示するため、メインウィンドウは最大化しないでください。
    メインウインドウ最大化すると、検索ウインドウが隠れて見えなくなります。
    uPal Search

4. Merits

5. Computer Environments
UTF-8 Japanese Fonts, Cookie and JavaScript

6. How to use TTS

  1. Click Index of Aozora Bunko at /u/.

  2. Select a Kana characters of Author's name.

  3. Select Author's name.

  4. Select Author's article.

  5. Select XHTML version.

  6. Select a word for dictionary search and click headphone icon for audio play.
    Usage of uPal

7. Examples of Text to Speech Synthesis after Parsing

Typical Example 私は 学校へ 行きました。
Geminate Example 昨日 叔父さんと お爺さんに 会いました。
Word Accent Example 雨の 中で 飴を 食べました。

8. uPal Flowchar
uPal Flow Chart

9. United Links for Japanese Learning Web Resources (Aug. 20, 2007)

10. Associative Kanji Learning (Feb. 1, 2008)

11. How to learn by "Associative Kanji Learning"

  1. Select your native language.
    最初(さいしょ)に、あなたの 母語(ぼご)を、ログインのページから 選択(せんたく)してください。
    This Version: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

  2. Select name or chapter for your textbook in lower select tags.
    次に、連合学習のページで、あなたの学習している教科書名と、章番号を選択してください。
    If you don't know the chapter, click "Grade" link tag.

  3. Learn kanji figure and meaning in random order by the "Next" or "Back" tag.
    "Next"や"Back"ボタンをクリックして、漢字の意味や読みなどを学習してください。
    漢字の母語での意味は、漢字から母語への機械翻訳により、右側の4段目に表示されます。

  4. Learn kanji stroke order by animation in random order.
    If you don't know kanji meaning, back to above step.
    In this step, please write kanji on your hand, space or paper. This is called as dummy writing practice(空書き漢字練習).

  5. Check your Kanji by examination.

12. Matching quizzes based on English meaning, "On" reading, "Kun" reading, or all

Kanji Matching Quizzes / 漢字マッチングクイズ
(Differnt Graphical User Interface for PCs or Smart Devices.)
(PCとiPhone & iPod Touchは、ユーザインタフェースが異なります。)

  1. Access the following URL.
    /u/akanji.jsp for Kanji
    /u/akana.jsp for Hiragana and Katakana
    Caution: set on your browser options of cookie and Javascript
  2. Select your textbook such as "Genki", "Minna no Nihonngo", or "Nakama".
  3. Select your chapter in the textbook for Kanji learning.
  4. Click a button of "Login" for score accessing after Kanji matching quizzes.
  5. Click a button of "Quizzes" on a top page of "Associative Kanji Learning".

  6. Match the items of meaning or reading on the right to the Kanji items on the left.

  7. Click a button of "Check Kanji Answers" on a page of "Kanji Matching Quizzes".
    You can see your score for your Kanji matching quizzes.

  8. Click a button of "OK" on a page of "Kanji Matching Quizzes".
    Your scores are stored for "10th Score Display".
    If you want to access scores after quizzes, you must click both buttons of "Check kanji answers" and "OK".

  9. Return to 6th stage in above procedure for repetitions of Kanji matching quizzes.

  10. Click a button of "Scores" in the case of login.

13. Examples of Associative Kanji learning using Apple iPhone or iPod Touch in a ubiquitous environment

  1. File size of GIF animation is smaller than movie such as quicktime.
    Red color in the animation shows begining point of the stroke.
  2. Table tags are available for Apple Safari for iPhone.
    iPhone via Apple Store (May 14., 2008)
    iPhone for Kanji Learning
    PC, iPhone, 携帯電話などのスマートデバイスから漢字の筆順が検索できます。

    iPad (June 19, 2010)
    iPad for Kanji Learning
    PC, iPhone, iPad, 電子黒板などに表示して、常用漢字の筆順の空書き学習に利用できま す。
    漢字のサイズは、表示装置に合わせ、メニューボタンを使って調整してください。
    なお、本システムは、ディジタル教科書として、学校ばかりでなく、自宅おける予習復習のリビング学習にも利用できます。

    Kanji Stroke Order / 漢字筆順

    Kanji Stroke Order
    Kanji and Kana Animations Using Educational Fonts
    教育フォントを利用した漢字, かな筆順アニメーション
    © 2009 iCampusj.net

14. Laguage Translation (Aug. 1, 2008)

15. Dictionary Search Using Kanji Handwriting Recognition (Dec. 24, 2008)

16. Podcast for Kanji Animations (June 1, 2009)

漢字ポッドキャスト：漢字の由来（なりたち）をアニメーションで学習できます。 また、間違えやすい筆順は、強調して示しています。

17. Kanji Search (Oct. 1, 2010)

18. Reading Practice for Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji (Feb. 22, 2021)

1. Click a mode button of for Hiragana, Katakana, kanji words in Nakama 1 or kanji words in Nakama 2.
2. Click a button of "2. Set Options and Start Practice" such as chapters for kanji, maximum no. of items. speed and font size.
3. Read items for paractice.

Reading Practice for Japanese Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji / ひらがな よみ れんしゅう

* Modifications (New, Mar. 25, 2024)
1. You can read Japanese characters by educational fonts. (教科書体フォント)
2. You can practice for kanji words of Nakama 2. (なかま 2)

* If you link this url of reading practice at your CMS, please write the following HTML codes for hiragana reading.
In the following HTML, "a=1" means a hiden command for automatic start, and "t=1" means for reading examination.

<iframe 
style="display:block;margin:0px auto" 
src="https://www.icampusj.net/u/reading.jsp?m=1&r=1&r=2&r=3&a=1&t=1" 
name="iCampusj reading" width="100%" 
height="530" frameborder="0">
インラインフレームを使用しています。
</iframe>

* The following parameter values in bold are default.

ParametersNameValuesItems (No.)
Content Modesm 1Hiragana (104)
2Katakana (104)
5Nakama Kanji (229)
Range of Items m=1

r

1 あ～そ (15)
2た～ほ (15)
3ま～ん (16)
1,2,3Simple Hiragana (46)
4が～ぽ (25)
5きゃ～ぴょ (33)
1,2,3,4,5All Hiragana (106)
m=2

r

 11ア～ソ (15)
12タ～ホ (15)
13マ～ン (16)
11,12,13Simple Katakana (46)
14ガ～ポ (25)
15キャ～ピョ (33)
11,12,13,14,15All Katakana (106)
m=5

r

 504Nakama 1 Chap. 4 (6)
505Nakama 1 Chap. 5 (10)
506Nakama 1 Chap. 6 (19)
507Nakama 1 Chap. 7 (23)
508Nakama 1 Chap. 8 (35)
509Nakama 1 Chap. 9 (28)
510Nakama 1 Chap. 10 (38)
511Nakama 1 Chap. 11 (30)
512Nakama 1 Chap. 12 (40)
Nakama 1 AllNakama 1 All Kanji (229)
m=6

r
521Nakama 2 Chap. 1 (43)
522Nakama 2 Chap. 2 (47)
523Nakama 2 Chap. 3 (36)
524Nakama 2 Chap. 4 (35)
525Nakama 2 Chap. 5 (39)
526Nakama 2 Chap. 6 (32)
527Nakama 2 Chap. 7 (46)
528Nakama 2 Chap. 8 (32)
529Nakama 2 Chap. 9 (42)
530Nakama 2 Chap. 10 (38)
531Nakama 2 Chap. 11 (33)
Nakama 2 AllNakama 2 All Kanji (423)
Maximum Number of Itemsn55 items
1010 items
2020 items
3030 items
4040 items
5050 items
6060 items
8080 items
100100 items
120120 items
150150 items
200200 items
250250 items
300300 items
400400 items
500500 items
Display Speeds30.3 sec.
40.4 sec.
50.5 sec.
60.6 sec.
70.7 sec.
80.8 sec.
90.9 sec.
101.0 sec.
121.2 sec.
151.5 sec.
202.0 sec.
303.0 sec.
404.0 sec.
505.0 sec.
606.0 sec.
Points of Fontp400Small (400 points)
600Medium (600 points)
800Large (800 points)
1200Extra Large (1200 points)
1600Huge (1600 points)
Automatic Starta0Manual Start
1Automatic Start
Examination Modet0Reading Practice
1Reading Examination

19. Special Thanks

19. Keywords

20. Known Bugs

  1. Mis-reading for unknown words
  2. Japanese font error at PDF viewing

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