Jonathan Lalou's blog

I dreamt of it, but it already existed!

One of the most complex issue a student in Japanese encounters is to read kanji. Indeed, after ten or twenty days, anyone may read hiragana and katakana, and then learn Japanese grammar and vocabulary as they would for English, French or Spanish. But kanji are really hard to memorize, all the more for Western people.

I found a script that allows to convert kanji into hiragana (and even into Romaji!). It is available at this link: Kanji Converter to Hiragana-Romaji-English. No one should say anymore “Japanese characters may not be read”!

Thanks to Gary Ross!