Japanese Vocabulary

Japanese Vocabulary is a small Windows application whose purpose is to help you study Japanese words with the aid of a set of cards.

This is a portable program which makes it an ideal candidate for being saved on USB flash drives. You can gain access to the tool’s features by simply running the executable file (there’s no installation included in the process). A quick deletion task is sufficient for getting rid of the utility because it does not store entries in your Windows registry.

Japanese Vocabulary reveals a well-structured suite of functions. A help manual is not included in the package so you need to experiment a little bit with the dedicated parameters in order to understand how it works. Tooltips are shown each time you hover your mouse cursor over a specific feature and contain short descriptions about the app’s options.

Japanese Vocabulary offers you the possibility to work with a set of cards that include three topics: Kanji spelling, Kana reading, and English (or other languages) translation/meaning.

The program employs a smart system for managing the cards. It displays the cards that you do not know very well often so you can focus on learning the meaning of those particular words.

You can also check out statistics about the total number of cards, cards shown for the current day, answered items, as well correct entries.

A few configuration settings hidden under the hood enable you to adjust the text used for displaying the Kanji, Kana, and translation data in terms of font, font style, and size, and reset the status of all cards in the vocabulary file (all progress is lost). Reports can also be generated with duplicate cards and exported to HTML file format.

All things considered, Japanese Vocabulary comes packed with several handy features for helping you study the Japanese vocabulary, and can be handled by rookies and professionals alike. On the downside, it has not been updated for a long time so it may cause compatibility issues on newer operating systems like Windows 8.1.