テレビ： Qさま！！ 漢字王決定戦

Difficulty Level: 3
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI3OTg3NTg0.html

Super-fun for us kanji geeks!!! ;)

Qさま！！ is a quiz show about kanji... it's really fun to watch and shout out the answers when you get them!!

There's loads of different types of questions, such as readings, meanings, name the radical common to a few kanji, name the missing kanji common to some compounds, correct the kanji, you name it!

Well, i suck at it! But it's soooo much fun when you get one!!! i'm about half way through the 2009 3 hour special now, and i've managed to answer a few questions right (i got all the meaning ones yesssss!!! ... by guessing ;) plus 脹脛 and one of the compound ones. :D The radical ones were mostly all real "doh" moments for me though... this show actually makes me want to go & do RTK!!

Although i've marked this show as "3" (because most of the vocabulary words, at least in the 3 hour special are difficult), i think that most people learning Japanese will be able to get something from this show, and also learn a ton. In fact, if you're someone who's just completed RTK, but knows no japanese whatsoever, i think you'd still be able to get the more kanji writing type questions. So, by all means give it a go!!! btw, the range of questions in the normal shows are much wider, so there are questions even beginners will get. But there's also questions other than about Kanji, like famous people, which i never ever get...