Using Apple’s Dictionary

imiwa? doesn’t have examples for every word. In this case, you can either try to find a real world example (you must have gotten the word from somewhere: a book, a sign, something a friend said to you, or something you thought about saying) or can you look for an example using your device’s built-in dictionary. It’s best to do this during a study session. Tap edit and then double-tap the kanji entry and choose Select All. Next tap Define (you may need to tap the right arrow first).

Apple’s dictionary will slide up and you’ll have a nice list of examples to choose from. The examples are between the「」and the word you looked up will be replaced with a —.

The only problem is that you can’t copy text from this screen. You’ll have to be able to read all the kanji in the example so you can memorize it and then manually enter it into kanji Flow on the card’s Examples screen.

Many words will also have a long list of sub-entries at the bottom of the page.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Happy Studies!

CSV Importing

Version 1.0.2 of kanji Flow posted to the App Store today and includes a new CSV import feature.

You can add CSV files to your kanji Flow documents and the file will be converted to kanji Flow format upon selection from the lesson list.  You can also import CSV formatted text from the Edit view.  The CSV needs to be formatted correctly in order to import properly.  If you’re working from a spreadsheet file, it should only have three columns: one for the kanji entry, one for the kana entry, and one for the English (or translation) entry.  If you’re working from a source file that includes more than three columns, just delete the extra columns from the file before you export it as a CSV file.  The resulting text should end up looking something like this:

来週,らいしゅう,”next week”
東,ひがし,”east”
冷蔵庫,れいぞうこ,”refrigerator”

Happy Studies!