As always, I forget to update the credits to thoses that allows Obenkyo to exist because of the Creative Commons licence.
Here is the project Obenkyo is based on:
- KanjiVG – Kanji Drawings (database limited to JLPT 1-5 & school levels 1-8. and some data modified to fit the drawing algorithm : added some tags, alternative view, …) – if you need other kanji, you can ask me to add them
- KanjiDict – Translation, readings and kanji information (French, English, German and Spanish)
- EDict - writing, translation and readings on the vocabulary and information tags (for now not used but I have coded this information to gain some space : verb = u …)
- JFrench – French translation of the vocabulary
- Tatoeba - Sentences and it’s translation modified to identify the kanji, katakana words and particles in sentences
- Tanos – Data is not under CC, but I got the authorisation to use the JLPT repartiton of kanji and Vocabulary
- Tae Kim’s grammar guide – Great CC guide translated in many languages
- Icons for drawing modified from wikimedia (fom David Vignoni work)
- Predicate Layout from Henrik Gustafsson (not changed)
- Small LED to show the actual level in vocabulary page from Modernl (from Stuart Brown work)
And here are the files:
Traductions extraction(French, English, German and Spanish) from KanjiDict
KanjiVg Extraction for kana
Tae Kim’s guide html pages in De,En,Es,Fi,Fr,Pt,Ru modified to fit into Android (layout changed to prevent horizontal scroll to help swipe & change hyperlink to javascript handle).
Icons modified from David Vignoni work
Once again, I want to thank everyone that are working on theses projects and to encourage everyone to help them in any means possible.
March 23rd, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Is there a way to add kanji to the database, or possibly pull entries from a user-defined database in addition to the built-in one? Maybe it could be another way to select besides JLPT/Grade
March 23rd, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hi Matt,
Concerning Kanji it would be pretty hard to add one, but send me the list of kanji you want to see added and I can add them for the next update.
I am thinking of ways to have the full KanjiVG database with a sideloading … but not in short term
March 24th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hello,
What do you think about passing obenkyo on an open source licence?
It would be nice to suggest patch or features :p
March 24th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
hi Bump,
You are not the first one to ask for it, and I must admit, that the main reason why Obenkyo is not open sourced, is the little shame concerning the quality of the code.
Obenkyo is my first Android/Java/OO project (I work as an ABAP developer that is more akin to script languages than OO ones), and right now the code is a mess.
I have a project for a long time now that I have to work back on, to open source the most important part of the code : the KanjiDraw View that I have created almost from scratch, and the recognition algorithm. I believe that it is the most “interresting” part of the code, and the one where external input could really transform the usability of the app (and the users input with the “report error” give me a goldmine of usage test to test the changes !).
But I am sorry to say that you should not expect it to be “soon” since the time I can give to Obenkyo seems to go thin recently ^^;
But it is something I would love to do, even only to repay KanjiVG team of the great work they have done !
March 27th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hello,
I have a collection of sound files for japanese words. I’m not pretty sure about its origin and it’s license, so I’m not sure that it is acceptable to distribute it with Obenkyo, but it would be perfect if there would be feature allowing playing such files during test. I think in will help remembering of reading. Is it possible to implement such thing in any way?
March 27th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hi,
thanks but I would rather have an open licence or to get the authorisation for it :/
Maintly out of respect for the huge job, I would not be able to do myself (well my French accent would very usefull I fear :p )
I will try to contact Japanesepod101.com that provide sound data for wwwjdict … we will see
thanks anyway
March 28th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html
Is one more source on audio files.
March 29th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Thanks for the info, I sent them a mail
April 2nd, 2012 - %I:%M %p
One more question. In particle test, there is one interesting feature:
ability to show reading on dictionary kanji words. Do you make it automatically or by hand for each work? If first, it could be intersting as separate application or section for reading training.
April 2nd, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Unfortunately, no, I had to add them by hand (with the help of the Tatoeba project that populated it actually).
So it would not be possible :/
And I agree with you … it would be VERY helpfull :p
April 2nd, 2012 - %I:%M %p
http://jgloss.sourceforge.net/ has such feature using dictionary. But I don’t know whether it be possible to port this feature to obenkyo.
April 3rd, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Thank you very much for this app
April 4th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hope it will help improve obenkyo
April 4th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
I have to see how I could implement this kind of thing :/
But since right now I am on a brand new app, I don’t have much time … and it’s crazy at work right now …
I hope you will like the new app
April 5th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hello! Can you add translate in russian? Or can I help you to do this?
April 5th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
what do you want to translate ?
If you want to translate the Tae Kim’s Guide, go on his web site ( http://www.guidetojapanese.org/forum/ ), if you want to help for vocabulary & kanji, right now the code does not allow to add other languages (it will change, but really don’t have time recently to work on the app ^^;; ).
Sorry ^^
May 9th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hello Atomusk,
thanks for all the effort you are putting in this project firstly. And then I would like to ask you if you are going to improve the custom lists side of your app. It would be great to be able to add words from the quizzes directly to a list.
P.S. Little push to make it open source. either way is ok as long as you keep hearing from us anyway
May 11th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hi,
Thank you for your support
Concerning the abilty to add words to a custom list, I do like the idea but right now it is not my priority.
There is much I want to do right now, and very very little time ^^
Concerning the OpenSource, I must say that I consider pushing the drawing recognition as open source, but .. I must find some time to work on this ^^;
Thanks again
September 3rd, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hi,
First I would like to thank you for creating such a wonderful app! I am using the remembering the kanji classification of the kanjis, since I’m learning them using the Heisig method. The thing is that in the application you use the old classification instead of the new one that came up around 2010 (I’m using the new edition of Heisig’s book). What do you think? is it possible to update the classification? if it’s too much work for you I can offer updating it myself(I’m also an android programmer).
Again, thank you for the great app,
Bib
September 3rd, 2012 - %I:%M %p
it would be “easy” to update the classification, but I would need to know the new classification … Since I am using the data from Kanjidict http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic.html and I don’t know any source for the new classification, there is not much I can do :/
September 27th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Hello, after not wanting to bother you for months, I’ll ask. How do you determine the order of the Kanji shown? Is it from a standard list somewhere? [Is there a way to make a back up of the ordered lists by levels or school grades in case I do some weird thing and rearrange the characters by accident?] I am loving the order of the Kanji – I want to be able to print a list – of the Kanji and the vocabulary – the “write each word 5 times” thing on top of the quizzes. I hope that was clear – I have a hard time putting what I want into words orz.
September 30th, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Sorry for the late reply (your comment was burried under 20 unvalidated “spam comments”)
I am using the KanjiDict database : http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic.html
And I have a field with this value : “the rank-order frequency of occurrence of the kanji in Japanese”
So, I group by JLPT (or other group you set in settings), and sort with this value (well, I give numbers a little boost so that they always appear first ). I am not sure I understand what you mean by “Is there a way to make a back up of the ordered lists by levels or school grades in case I do some weird thing and rearrange the characters by accident?”. One way to get the ordered list I use would be to export personnal lists chapter by chapter and mix them in Excel.
For the vocabulary order I think I find in the word the kanji with the smallest rank and attach the rank to the word. This way I get the words with more frequent kanji first. It’s not a bulletproof method, but I like the result.
October 1st, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Thank you very much for replying!
Arranging by frequency of usage and boosting the numbers – that is actually very clever
. The obenkyo order seemed more logical.
I didn’t know we could export lists! I don’t see that option on my LG L7 but when I got the app on my brother’s Samsung tablet, it’s present. I tried to save the list and export and it says it’s saving it on the “SD card” (i have a micro sd inside), but I can’t find it when I connected the tab to my pc and tried to look for the .txt files in the microSD card. Will try a few more things.
October 1st, 2012 - %I:%M %p
edit: I found the import/export functions in my LG L7. I still can’t find the exported lists in my sd card or onboard memory. like, no .txt files, it’s not in the obenkyo folder either. I’ll try a few more things.
October 1st, 2012 - %I:%M %p
Well, you should have a “Obenkyo_data” folder on your SD Card or in your local storage. The file should be inside :/
October 1st, 2012 - %I:%M %p
I looked around using the polaris file reader and found the files. They mysteriously don’t appear on my PC when I search the Obenkyo_data folder. I just emailed myself the 12 files from my phone to PC and I can open them now
. very primitive though. I think it’s something wrong on my side.
I had to click around a few things in the LG phone whereas the tablet had a bigger screen and the export/load/save thing was all clearly visible – http://i.imgur.com/l9YWX.jpg
The text file I sent myself – exactly what I wanted for months
– http://i.imgur.com/80U1x.png