Seppukuman (Japanese Hangman) Vers.
1.20
Summary
Seppukuman allows enriching your Japanese vocabulary with playing on an android phone.
It consists to click on a Hiragana/Katakana (Japanese characters) panel to guess randomly generated words.
It looks like Hangman in English but this uses a traditional Japanese Samurai’s execution method i.e. Seppuku (Harakiri).
This version displays 3 different translation (English, German or French)
according to your phone's default setting.
How to use it?
Push on a button at top and the program will generate randomly a hidden word from its dictionary.
You have to guess it by touching Hiragana characters (Japanese phonetic characters) from the left panel
with an aid of its translation at right. When you guessed the correct word or failed
by touching more than 5 times wrong characters, the game is over and you will see the correct answer at top-left
and its counterpart in Kanji (Chinese characters) at top-right.
Initialization
You can choose the size of exercise among 3 alternatives (first 200 words, first 1000 words or all the words).
More you want words, more time is needed for a database initialization.
Once the database initialized, subsequent launches should go much faster,
for you need no more internet connection unless you may want to add more words.
When "Repeat errors" button is unchecked, the program creates a list of wrongly answered questions from those exercises,
while by checking it, the program limits questions only from this list and every good answer will be removed from it.
You can also choose the character set you want to learn (Hiragana or Katakana) and the presence/absence of sound.
Minimum Configuration
Android version: 1.5 or later
Screen size: 480x320 pixels or larger
FAQ
When the Internet access is necessary?
Once during a database initialization.
How to change the translation language?
By changing the default setting of your phone. Concretely, go to
Home/Settings/Local & text/Select locale, then choose between English, French or German
Where I can find it?
Connect to Android Market with your android phone and search the program by typing as keyword "Seppukuman".
When the download is finished, it will be automatically installed on your android phone.
Otherwise, you can download the program onto SD-card by clicking sepkman.apk
then you have to install it manually with an installer program.
Have a fun!
Other Japanese language resource
Our Euro-Japan Dictionary for Android is also available free.
Release Notes
Version 1.11 released on June 10, 2010
This version should avoid untimely database initialization of 1.1 when the phone's orientation is changed.
Now, Hiragana/Katakana characters become a bit larger so it should avoid unintentional touches.
This version also offers a way of giving up the ongoing question by pushing "Stop" button.
Version 1.12 released on June 15, 2010
This version can display 3 different translations (English, German or French)
according to your phone's default setting. Other language users should see English translation.
Version 1.13 released on June 24, 2010
Version 1.13 has been replaced by 1.14 because it couldn't switch to French nor German translations with Android version 1.6 and beyond.
Version 1.14 released on June 24, 2010
This version displays the last touched symbol and its pronunciation in Roman characters (Romaji).
The program uses now more compact images so the package size has been halved.
Version 1.15 released on July 3, 2010
This version corrects some bugs related to a database initialization.
More messages have been added for the users who play without sounds.
Version 1.16 released on July 24, 2010
This version shows a progress bar during a database initialization.
Version 1.17 released on August 3, 2010
This version shows a cancel button on the progress bar.
Version 1.20 released on August 26, 2010
The last version is 1.20 which should save all the wrongly answered questions,
so you could repeat them by clicking "Repeat errors" button.
A new database has been also uploaded so it is recommended to proceed a database initialization on your phone.
Last update: August 26, 2010,
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