Declans Japanese FlashCards

Declan's Japanese FlashCards is a fully configurable audio-based Japanese vocabulary
flash-card program. The program has been designed to help students learn a large number
of Japanese words as quickly as possible in a systematic but fun and simple way.
The program includes an audio feature that uses voice recordings of a word's pronunciation
to aid the learning process.

The program includes a flashcards feature a well as a number of exercises which help
with the memorisation of words and test the student's progress. Exercises include
Kanji/Kana multiple choice, English multiple choice, listening multiple choice, a
word/definition connecting exercise and a grid search/matching exercise.

Words are grouped into Word Files and the flashcards and exercises are undertaken
on the basis for these Word Files. The program comes pre-installed with a number of
Word Files and many others can be downloaded from the Declan Software Japanese
Word File archive and installed manually. Upon release Word Files totalling over 3200
of the most frequently used Japanese words - each with a sound recording of its
pronunciation - were available for download.

Word Files are studied based on a Learning List. The Learning List feature allows the
student to concentrate, at any one time, on a smaller sub-set of the larger Word File.
Only after a word in the Learning List has been mastered will it graduate from the
Learning List and another word from the Word File replace it. Words graduate from
the Learning List if they are correctly answered consecutively in each of the exercises.
One incorrect answer and the word's consecutive answer counter is reset to zero. This
process of words graduating through the Learning List and being replaced continues
until all the words in the complete Word File have been learned. The it is time to move
to the next Word File.