Knowing the stroke information of kanji is necessary for a student to be able to look up words in the dictionary, figure out other people's handwriting even when it is not clear, and guess the meaning of unfamiliar kanji. In a traditional kanji teaching class, a new kanji is introduced by showing how it should be written once or twice as an example on the blackboard, and the students practice writing it once or twice. Then they are asked to fill up a row with the kanji in their notebook as homework. When they practice the kanji at home, they can only look at the written results of the kanji in the notebook. Textbooks or dictionaries show how kanji should be written by either putting numbers or arrows, the use of which does not always clearly demonstrate the process of how a kanji is written.
Students can follow easily by just looking at the screen and practice writing next to the model.
This practice mode allows the student not only to see how the kanji is written but also to actively write and compare with the model. We have added 2285 sound data for the 'jukugo'. When you click on the jukugo, the recorded sound file is retrieved and played. The ability to customize certain aspects of this program have been added so that the instructor may more flexibly link QTKanji to a given course curriculum. Of course the CD-ROM is always available to the user as a backup reference.