ANONYMOUS  Others have said this does not contain the katakana characters. However, it does. What you have to fo is go into Hiragana & Katakana > Preferences > Core Syllabary > and click to change to "katakana" on drop down menu.   (Version 1.0.4)

SOUTHPAW  This is it... this fills that gap of trying to find some card or two to memorize your kana and katakana. Let's be realistic, when you learn japanese, it's in Romanji. But wait! In Japan, they have romanji as ESL over there. It's implemented FOR foreigners. After enough study, you discover that the structure of the written language is in syllables... rather than one letter plus one letter equals a syllable. The kana, that is, the hiragana and katakana are characters that mean individual syllables. Yes, that does mean that Brian translates to 'Bu-ri-a-n'. However, after you learn it's a modular language, have spent time in Transparent and Eurotalk software, you find that you're lacking in reading 'anything!' in japanese. You search libraries from city to city, to find a Jewel of a book set, called Modern Japanese A Basic Reader 2nd Edition Volume I and II. After you find that diamond in the rough at Barnes and Noble online store ( http://www.bn.com ) , you buy it, Only to find that it's from a teacher at Cambridge and goes at a seriously accelerated pace, which, although it does come with kana tables, you find yourself scurrying back to your language programs, which you once thought were sometimes hard. As if by sheer grace of God, you find that while owning a mac, and wishing for good free software, you hear of this Single Brain Cell company that puts out Japanese gnu software like iHop serves pancakes. You rush to the site. You find the downloads section. You find it doesn't download. What?!? Yep, that's right, QUEST customers can't download this. Say What?!? Finally, out of utter desparation, you go back to that old Earthlink dial-up that has served you well, and one day, as if angels are singing... at past 4 in the morning, downloads from the site are working. Woo hoo!! You quickly make hast to download every stinkin' language software and screensaver the site has. Ever so carefully, you download one at a time, waiting for each download to finish, not wanting to miss out on the grand opportunity of good software. Finally, after getting them all downloaded, stored, and filed, you resolve to back up the software on cd so you never have to try that again.

Although you decide to pay the man, as the software is truely worth donation, clear memories of the pains of trying to download in your mind cause a cd-r to be pulled out, before the donation button is pressed.  (Version 1.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  Look in preferences, you will see katakana.

I just started using it but it does what it says. You see the whole katakana or hiragana alphabet along with the romaji pronunciation guide to study. Then you press test and it flashes the different charactors for you to identify. It's the same thing as a set of flashcards. The only thing better would be to have audio samples of native speakers saying the sound of the charactor and you choose the correct charactor.  (Version 1.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  An excellent resource for HIRAGANA but there is no katakana...what on earth on you talking about!!!! this is only a HIRAGANA program. FOR KATAKANA it sucks  (Version 1.0.4)