iKana released for iPhone, iPod touch
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 26, 2008 at 7:34am
ThinkMac Software has released iKana touch 1.0, an application for learning Japanese hiragana and katakana on your iPhone or iPod touch. It’s available at the Apple App Store for US$7.99.
iKana is an application for learning the Japanese phonetic scripts: hiragana and katakana. It features flash cards with stroke animations, spoken sound clips and example words.
iKana touch offers a speed recognition test and a writing test to aide memorisation. In the speed test you have to correctly identify a character before the time runs out. In the writing test you have to correctly trace each stroke in a character.
ThinkMac Software also sells iKana for Mac OS X.
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