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If you would like to read and write Japanese on your home
computer, but don't feel like wiping out your English installation in
favor of a Japanese equivalent, you have a few options.
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Mac OS X: Japanese
(along with a set of beautiful Japanese fonts) is built-in
on Mac OS X. In the System Preferences application's
International panel, click on the Keyboard Menu tab,
and enable Kotoeri, the Japanese input method. That's
it! If you would also like to switch the system language
(the language used for menus, alerts, etc.) to Japanese,
click on the Language tab, press the "Edit..." button,
enable Japanese, then drag Japanese to the top of the
Languages list.
Mac OS 9:
Launch the OS 9 (re)install CD, go through the installer
and choose custom install. Choose the Japanese Language
Kit and install. In every application there is now a keyboard
menu, from which you can choose Kotoeri, the Japanese
input method for use in most applications.
(The Mac part is written
by Mr. Michael Erlewine. Thank you Michael!) |
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Once your computer has the ability to read Japanese, there are a few
sites in the Useful Links page you might like to check out. Here are
a few to get you off the ground:
The genki-online.com site
gives you online practice for each lesson. Go to "Self-Study
Room."
The rikai.com site
and the Pop
Jisyo site
allow you to go to other sites "through" it.
The advantage is that any page you load with it, you can get translations
to the Japanese words by hovering your mouse over text on the page.
 JPN1011
Computer Lab Session 1 
JPN1011 Computer Lab Session 2
JPN1012
Computer Lab Session 1
JPN1012
Computer Lab Session 2
If you have any comments, e-mail to: matsu021@umn.edu
Last updated: 03/24/2008 |
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