Learn Japanese by reading Web pages

[Steve Bildermann]

Moji means character in japanese. It is also the way japanese people will prononce the beginning of "Mozilla".

The moji project aims to help foreigners learning Japanese language to read web pages. The main goal is to add lecture guides to chinese characters (kanji) and translations. It is a Mozilla Firefox extension but I it may be ported it to Mozilla SeaMonkey. This is just UI issue, but I have few knowledge in SeaMonkey so I will be happy to receive patchs to have an extension working with both Firefox and SeaMonkey.

Moji Website - Ironically *not* in Japanese

[Taro Toporific]

Moji ....is a Mozilla Firefox extension but I it may be ported it to Mozilla SeaMonkey.

SeaMonkeys are neato keen!



Sea-Monkey Worship page

[AssKissinger]

How do they keep the Sea-Monkeys® in the little package for so long yet they DON'T DIE???

A. Once again, from the Official Sea-Monkey® Handbook: A true MIRACLE of nature, Sea-Monkeys® actually exist in SUSPENDED ANIMATION! While inside their tiny eggs - yet unborn, they burn the "spark of life" for many YEARS! The Instant-Life® cyrstals in which the eggs are enclosed, preserve their viability and help to extend still further - their unhatched life span!...The name scientists have given this amazing rare process is "cryptobiosis" which means "hidden life".

Taro your reply reeks of cryptology but the above information really is amazing.

[Taro Toporific]

The moji project aims to help foreigners learning Japanese language to read web pages. The main goal is to add lecture guides to chinese characters (kanji) and translations. It is a Mozilla Firefox extension but I it may be ported it to Mozilla SeaMonkey.
Moji Website - Ironically *not* in Japanese

Ok, I'm going free-association cryptic on ya again with that Mozilla SeaMonkey riff.

There's a great advantage to this Mozilla Firefox extension in learning Japanese. Moji browser should not have much of any lag time when you click on kanji to get translations unlike some websites that do this painfully slowly with Java now.

[AssKissinger]

This creature is capable of cryptobiosis.

[omae mona]

Steve's right. Moji is a great tool.

While we're on the topic, Rikai is another wonderful toy, and it will work with any browser that has Javascript enabled (in theory). The Japanese to English page takes a url and re-renders it so that moving your mouse over a Japanese word will pop up a little box with the translation.

For those using Firefox, the little bookmarklet below will jump directly from your current page to the rikai-ized version. Very convenient if you put this on your personal bookmark toolbar. Just cut and paste the below url into your bookmark's location entry. (perhaps other browsers will run this bookmarklet too... not sure).

javascriptlocation.href='http://www.rikai.com/perl/LangMediator.En.pl?mediate_uri='+location.href;

(sorry I couldn't get the above into BBcode... it doesn't seem to like the embedded quotes)

[Taro Toporific]

Steve's right. Moji is a great tool.

While we're on the topic, Rikai is another wonderful toy, and it will work with any browser that has Javascript enabled (in theory).

Thanks omae mona for the url to the often Java-flaky Rikai which was the service I was referring to when I said:
" Moji browser should not have much of any lag time when you click on kanji to get translations unlike some websites that do this painfully slowly with Java now."

[omae mona]

Thanks omae mona for the url to the often Java-flaky Rikai which was the service I was referring to when I said:
" Moji browser should not have much of any lag time when you click on kanji to get translations unlike some websites that do this painfully slowly with Java now."

Ah, I didn't make the connection. I've actually had quite good luck using Rikai (but I don't use it that often).

But Moji, as Taro says, is bound to be faster and availabile 100% of the time. My major gripe with Rikai is that they seem to have cached popular pages. When I visit popular sites (like http://www.yomiuri.co.jp), it tends to give versions that are a few hours out of date.

Plus, Rikai runs off of somebody else's server. When you browse as much porn as I do, you have to think twice about whether you want to leave the trail of all your favorite urls as a free present in the Rikai site owner's server log.

[amdg]

This creature is capable of cryptobiosis.

WHAT the HELL is that thing?? Looks like an evil stealth ninja Winnie the Pooh?

[American Oyaji]

This creature is capable of cryptobiosis.

WHAT the HELL is that thing?? Looks like an evil stealth ninja Winnie the Pooh?

It looks like an XRAY of Stich from Lilo & Stich

[Andocrates]

Maybe it's just me but furigana doesn't help me learn Japanese or kanji.