Abstract:
Languages are a tool of communication used by humans. Languages are used
by human as a main form of communication within a community. By learning a
language, being able to communicate with others who speaks that language might
prove to be beneficial, be it in a business, technological, or even in a cultural context.
Being able to speak a foreign language also allows one to connect with the native
speakers of said language, which possibly unlock a whole new side of the world.
There are a significant number of languages used throughout different places
and times, with it comes its own writing system. Some uses the widely known Latin
alphabets, such as English and Bahasa Indonesia; and some uses logographic
characters, such as Japanese and Chinese.
Learning a new language can be especially difficult when said language’s
writing system uses a logogram, where a written character represents a word. When a
learner encounters an unfamiliar logogram, it can be quite exhaustive for the learner
to look up the definition of the logogram. To mitigate this predicament, a mobile
application is proposed to speed up the rate of looking up logogram definitions. The
application was made with Japanese as the target language.
