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If you have ever wanted to try and learn to read Japanese, which a very complex language, but it would help you in case you play to stay for a while in this country, now you have to chance to do it in a smart way directly on your iPhone or iPod.
ThinkMac Software is a company from the United Kingdom, an independent software developer that designs innovative applications for the iPhone platform.

By installing the iKana touch 1.0, you would enable Japanese hiragana and katakana learning on the iPhone or iPod touch, by using flash cards with cool animations, spoken sound clips and many language examples. In order to improve your beginner skills and learn to read Japanese, you can perform recognition tests and writing tests to memorize things easier.
Hiragana and katakana are components of the Japanese writing system, representing phonetic scripts.
The speed test provided by the application you have to identify characters before time expires, while the writing test provokes you to trace each stroke in a character correctly.
iKana touch 1.0 is available at the App Store and iTunes for the iPhone and iPod touch, while the company provides also the version for the Mac OS X. We don't know how it works and if there are issues taking into consideration the latest rumors about iPhone 3G problems, but the interface is pretty nice.
For the handsets it has a price of $7.99 USD in the United States, £4.99 in the United Kingdom, and 5.99 Euro in the European Union.
The target of this application is to teach you to speak, read and write both hiragana and katakana phonetic alphabets, in a fun and easy way.

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