"Kanji in Motion" - does anyone know what this is?

こんにちは。日本語をならっている。

Hello. I have set myself towards learning Japanese, and have purchased several textbooks/workbooks, like A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar, a workbook for learning hiragana and katakana (which I am past needing), and several kanji practice pads. However, I have this one book, "Japanese Kanji and Kana - A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System," copyright 2012 and published by Tuttle Publishing, which mentions a program called "Kanji in Motion" on page 67.

In modern Japan, text will not always sit still and wait for you. Street signs, subtitles in movies and internet videos, captions on TV news programs, and even karaoke lyrics, rush by too fast to think them over, much less look up characters in a dictionary. One possibility for reviewing and developing the ability to quickly recognize all the kana and kanji in this book is the game and tutorial program "Kanji in Motion" (KIM). The object is to make as fast as possible a connection between characters swirling on a screen and the corresponding readings and meanings shown on the side. A demo version is available on the internet.

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The only results I've found for "Kanji in Motion" are a handful of acronym websites which identify "KIM" as "Kanji in Motion," but haven't found any such program. Does anyone know anything about this, or is it just some forgotten mention?

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BazookaSteve said:

こんにちは。日本語をならっている。

Hello. I have set myself towards learning Japanese, and have purchased several textbooks/workbooks, like A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar, a workbook for learning hiragana and katakana (which I am past needing), and several kanji practice pads. However, I have this one book, "Japanese Kanji and Kana - A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System," copyright 2012 and published by Tuttle Publishing, which mentions a program called "Kanji in Motion" on page 67.

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I had the same problem, and this is what an email from Dr. Hadamitzky told me:

" The German-language version of the program will hopefully be available around the end of August, the English-language edition some time in autumn...The price will be about 10 Euro. (10 Euro is about $14 USD or about ￥1,285)."

Sorry for the late reply, hope it helps.

rikuga said:

Kanji in Motion Whereabouots



I had the same problem, and this is what an email from Dr. Hadamitzky told me:

" The German-language version of the program will hopefully be available around the end of August, the English-language edition some time in autumn...The price will be about 10 Euro. (10 Euro is about $14 USD or about ￥1,285)."

Sorry for the late reply, hope it helps.

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Kanji in Motion is now availabe. See Steam platform