Portable Learn Kana

Portable Learn Kana is a lightweight educational program whose purpose is to help you memorize the characters of Katakana and Hiragana. In addition, the tool is able to reveal statistics.

Portable utility

This is a portable app which can be stored on USB flash drives or other portable devices so you can have it with you all the time. In addition, you may run it without administrative privileges. Gaining access to its features requires only opening the executable file because there’s no setup included in the process.
No settings files and registry entries are left on the host computer so you can get rid of it using a quick deletion task.

Clean looks

You are welcomed by an intuitive design that embeds all configuration settings into a single window. There’s no support for a help manual but you can manage to set up the dedicated parameters on your own because they look highly intuitive.

Learning tools

Portable Learn Kana gives you the possibility to switch between the Katakana and Hiragana writing system. The program reveals a picture in the main window with one of the Katakana or Hiragana characters and gives you the possibility to input the correct translation.
In case the answer is wrong, the utility reveals the correct one. If you don’t know the answer, you can make Portable Learn Kana show the correct one.
What’s more, you are allowed to show the Katakana or Hiragana characters in a random order and customize the information that is displayed in the questions by including or excluding basic characters, Dakuten and Handakuten characters, as well as diphthongs. In addition, you can check out the score and statistics that include information about the number of times you have been asked about each syllable.
Tests have shown that Portable Learn Kana carries out a task very quickly and without errors. It is not a resource hog so you can keep it running in the background without worrying that it eats up CPU and memory resources.

Bottom line

All things considered, Portable Learn Kana proves to be a handy application that comes packed with basic features for helping you learn the characters of Katakana and Hiragana, and is suitable especially for students who are at the beginning of their studies.