NippoFile
NippoFile is a language-learning and reading assistance programme.
NippoFile gives you:
- A history of the Japanese writing system and an introduction to the grammar.
- A audio-phonetic feature with quizzes that help you to learn the hiragana and
katakana.
The reading assistant uses 4 dictionaries:
- A 3,500-character dictionary
- A dictionary of words in hiragana
- A dictionary of words in katakana
- A dictionary of compounds composed of kanji and phonetic symbols.
The programme lets you add vocabulary and customise the dictionaries.
The kanji dictionary gives all the informations about the characters, in Roman
characters or hiragana at the user's request, and their numbers in the big
standard dictionaries (Nelson, Spahn-Hadamitsky, Halpern, O'Neill...).
Several methods for translating kanji are proposed:
- The novel "NippoFile" method, based on a structured description of the kanji.
No prior knowledge of the chinese characters is needed for reading a Japanese
text with this method.
- The traditional 214-radical method
- The four-corner method
- The number of strokes in the kanji
- The pronunciation
- The English meaning of the kanji
In the automatic mode, with a simple click, you will get a word to word
translation from a text in a word processor file.
Use NippoFile and you will learn to associate the written form of kanji with
their pronunciations and English meanings. You will learn an increasingly
greater number of characters and terms.
NippoFile is compatible with all the "AppleĻ" computers:
- Disk space : 12 MB
- RAM : 2 MB minimum
Only the automatic translation fonction requires the Japanese system extension.
NippoFile is delivered in an A4 loose-leaf binder that includes:
- 10 diskettes
- A simplified documentation
- A tutorial that will help you get a good start and show you the potential of
the programme.
In order to get a demo program, click on:
Download Macintosh demo (English version)
nipofile.sea.bin (718429 octets).
The final user's price is 350 US$ for the English version, including a free worldwide shipment.
If you need to get further information about the product, please click on:
Send an E-mail to the publisher,
MAGICDESCOM.
www.flsw.com/nippofig.htm
Last update: September 1, 98
