KanjiKaku: Japanese Kanji

KanjiKaku teaches you to write Japanese by hand and corrects you the way a teacher would. You draw each kanji with your finger. The app checks the shape, the direction and the order of every stroke, and when something is wrong it shows the correct stroke over yours, so you see exactly what to change. WHAT IT CORRECTS • A stroke drawn backwards or out of order • A radical in the wrong place: the pieces are right, but not where they belong • Two radicals that look alike, such as 日 and 目 or 土 and 士 • Proportions that drift, judged more strictly as you get to know the word • Look-alike kanji, put side by side in the exercises until you tell them apart These are the mistakes most students of Japanese make, and the app names each one instead of marking the whole kanji wrong. FROM THE KANJI TO THE SENTENCE You start with the kanji. From each kanji you jump to the words that use it, and from…