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Jack Halpern (春遍雀來, ハルペン・ジャック) is a Japan-based lexicographer specializing in Chinese characters or kanji. He is best known as editor-in-chief of the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary and as the inventor of the SKIP system for kanji lookup. Halpern is also an active unicyclist, having served as founder and president of the International Unicycling Federation. He currently resides in Saitama, Japan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Introducing Jack Halpern )〕 == Personal life == Jack Halpern was born in Germany in 1946. Through his early years, he moved through six different countries including France, Brazil, and the United States, picking up numerous local languages. After studying astronomy at university, he began a business offering technical translation services. In 1968, while traveling, Halpern met a Japanese citizen who introduced him to kanji, beginning his lifelong interest in Chinese characters. He moved to Japan with his family in 1973, where he continues to live with his wife and two children.〔 There, he has founded the Japan Yiddish Club, currently the only Yiddish-teaching organization in Japan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Japan Yiddish Club )〕 Through the club, he continues to teach Yiddish lessons at the Jewish Community Center in Shibuya, Tokyo. Within Japan, Halpern is well known for his public appearances. In addition to having published regular columns in Japanese magazines and periodicals and having appeared on numerous variety shows,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 春遍雀來の掲載記事 )〕 Halpern has given hundreds of public lectures on lexicography, language-learning, and other language- and culture-related topics. He was formerly a fellow at Showa Women's University. Halpern plays the quena, a traditional Andean flute. He has played with the Japan-based Grupo Tortuguita since 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Kametai )〕 Halpern is a noted polyglot with speaking ability in eleven languages: English, Japanese, Hebrew, Yiddish, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Chinese, Esperanto, Arabic, and Vietnamese. His reading ability extends to Ladino, Papiamento, and Aramaic.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Halpern (linguist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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