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After some testing I think I found a solution for japanese flashcards with Pleco:
- as there is no japanese dictionary in Pleco, custom cards have to be used
- Pleco has no japanese HWR, and even with the radical input japanese Kanji without chinese equivalent cannot be entered (i.e. 庁 cannot be entered with Pleco, but when it is entered somehow, it can be found with Pleco in CC-CEDICT as ting: Japanese variant of 廳).
- there are 2 ways to enter japanese words (Kanji and Hiragana/Katakana) into Pleco: either with a japanese HWR, or by importing japanese flashcards made with Excel or other programs on the host. There is a very good japanese freeware HWR including a free japanese-english dictionary on http://ookii.org/software/japaneseinput/default.aspx, and it can be used together with Pleco
- It is necessary to use hiragana/katakana for the pronunciation of words instead of romaji, as Pleco changes romaji input according to pinyin rules, inserting tone numbers and changing letters to create pinyin syllables.
- There is no audio, but the search function of manage flashcards can be used with hiragana too.
- With these precautions a repetition spaced, self scored flashcard session really works. It is even possible to create a chinese/japanese - english User dictionary for all chinese and japanese flashcards which then can be found in compounds:
- as there is no japanese dictionary in Pleco, custom cards have to be used
- Pleco has no japanese HWR, and even with the radical input japanese Kanji without chinese equivalent cannot be entered (i.e. 庁 cannot be entered with Pleco, but when it is entered somehow, it can be found with Pleco in CC-CEDICT as ting: Japanese variant of 廳).
- there are 2 ways to enter japanese words (Kanji and Hiragana/Katakana) into Pleco: either with a japanese HWR, or by importing japanese flashcards made with Excel or other programs on the host. There is a very good japanese freeware HWR including a free japanese-english dictionary on http://ookii.org/software/japaneseinput/default.aspx, and it can be used together with Pleco
- It is necessary to use hiragana/katakana for the pronunciation of words instead of romaji, as Pleco changes romaji input according to pinyin rules, inserting tone numbers and changing letters to create pinyin syllables.
- There is no audio, but the search function of manage flashcards can be used with hiragana too.
- With these precautions a repetition spaced, self scored flashcard session really works. It is even possible to create a chinese/japanese - english User dictionary for all chinese and japanese flashcards which then can be found in compounds: