Nuku is a personal Japanese tutor, teaching you the two native Japanese writing systems, hiragana and katakana. It features both these systems, all three main romanization systems and methods of selecting what to learn. It was written to aid me in my Japanese studies.
What’s New:Version 1.5.1 fixes the following:
Swedish and Japanese localization by Patrik [...]
wordSword is a powerful word tool. It allows you to generate anagram words and phrases, find crossword solutions and lookup words and synonyms.
Developer’s website: Rob Steward, Inc.
Babelizer is a toy that humorously exposes the inadequacy of machine translation. You type in a phrase, choose a language, and the Babelizer uses the Altavista translation web site to translate between English and your chosen language until the result no longer mutates.
What’s New:Version 2.1: Added support for HTTP proxies.
Improvements to UI.
Developer’s website: Jonathan Feinberg [...]
Tensai is a Japanese language dictionary and study aid for native English speakers, designed for maximum readability and efficiency to make studying less stressful and more fun. Tensai makes use of the JMdict and kanjidic2 dictionaries.
What’s New:Version 0.93:
Improved vocab lists
Better drag & drop
Now requires OS X 10.4.7
Developer’s website: Justin Anderson
Aspell is an Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of coming up with possible suggestions than Ispell does. In fact recent tests shows that it even does better than Microsoft Word 97’s spell checker or just about any other spell checker [...]
Praat is an application with which phoneticians can analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech and create high-quality pictures for their articles and doctoral theses.
The source code may be downloaded here.
What’s New:Version 4.6.32:
Unicode support for names of objects.
Developer’s website: Paul Boersma/David Weenink – University of Amsterdam
Katakana Practicer is a simple two paned utility that will help a student to learn Japanese Katakana characters. The first pane is a chart showing the characters to be studied and how they are pronounced. The second pane is where the student’s knowledge can be tested, with a score of accuracy provided.
Developer’s website: Single Brain [...]
Diogenes is a tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek, that are published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute. It is free software: you are encouraged to modify, improve, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public license.
What’s New:Version 3.1.4:
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ProVoc is a free and easy-to-use vocabulary trainer. Behind its simple and user-friendly interface, ProVoc offers a rich variety of unique features that will greatly help you improve your knowledge of any foreign language or technical terminology.
Repeat and browse your vocabulary on your iPod
Print two-sided flash cards
Unicode support (e.g. for asiatic, hebraic, arabic or any [...]
Kanji Learner is an application to help people to learn a part of the Japanese Kanji character set. Included are 1878 characters, some with examples of their usage. Also as a part of this application there are tests for your knowledge in the form of a series of multichoice questions. You can be tested to [...]