A quick 'flashcard' script I wrote in less than an hour to test my knowledge of the Japanese Hiragana characters learnt so far. Feel free to use this in whatever way you like, especially if you have also just started learning Japanese as well :)

hiranga-flashcards.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# hiragana flashcards by Kelvin Tay [[email protected]]
import random

hira = [['-a', u'あ'],['-i', u'い'],['-u', u'う'],['-e', u'え'],['-o', u'お'],
        ['ka', u'か'],['ki', u'き'],['ku', u'く'],['ke', u'け'],['ko', u'こ'],
        ['sa', u'さ'],['shi', u'し'],['su', u'す'],['se', u'せ'],['so', u'そ'],
        ['ta', u'た'],['chi', u'ち'],['tsu', u'つ'],['te', u'て'],['to', u'と'],
        ['na', u'な'],['ni', u'に'],['nu', u'ぬ'],['ne', u'ね'],['no', u'の'],
        ['ha', u'は'],['hi', u'ひ'],['hu', u'ふ'],['he', u'へ'],['ho', u'ほ'],
        ['ma', u'ま'],['mi', u'み'],['mu', u'む'],['me', u'め'],['mo', u'も'],
        ['ya', u'や'],['yu', u'ゆ'],['yo', u'よ'],
        ['ra', u'ら'],['ri', u'り'],['ru', u'る'],['re', u'れ'],['ro', u'ろ'],
        ['wa', u'わ'],['wo', u'を'],['n', u'ん'],
        ['ga', u'が'],['gi', u'ぎ'],['gu', u'ぐ'],['ge', u'げ'],['go', u'ご'],
        ['za', u'ざ'],['ji/zi', u'じ'],['zu', u'ず'],['ze', u'ぜ'],['zo', u'ぞ'],
        ['da', u'だ'],['ji/di', u'ぢ'],['zu/du', u'づ'],['de', u'で'],['do', u'ど'],
        ['ba', u'ば'],['bi', u'び'],['bu', u'ぶ'],['be', u'べ'],['bo', u'ぼ'],
        ['pa', u'ぱ'],['pi', u'ぴ'],['pu', u'ぷ'],['pe', u'ぺ'],['po', u'ぽ']
]

count = 1 
print "WELCOME TO HIRAGANA FLASHo CARDo\nversion 1.0 updated 22.05.2013 by kelvin tay ([email protected])\n\nthere are %d flashcards today.\n" % (len(hira))     
while len(hira) >= 1:
    ran = random.randint(0, len(hira)-1)
    num = hira.pop(ran)
    if num:
        print 'Q' + str(count) + ': ' + num[0]
        count = count + 1
        raw_input('Press <ENTER> to see its Hiragana > ')
        print num[1]
    
    raw_input('\n------------------------------------------ Press <ENTER> for NEXT > ')

print "Yay! DONE."