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Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows?
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2012/12/18 00:58
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I've been using a couple of Android apps on my phone to help translating english word to kanji/kana/romaji, and to look up kanji. I'm looking for something similar that I can run on Windows (regular computer, no tablet/phone/mobile). I also need it to run entirely offline. On Android, I've been using these: * JED: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.umibouzu.jed* Obenkyo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Obenkyo* KanjiRecognizer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nick.kanjirecognizerThe last one is probably going to be a hard call on windows, since it requires drawing kanji, and that's hard to do with a mouse :) But what I'm really looking for is something like the first mentioned app (JED). This is "just" a dictionary, but one that's loaded with information and has many ways to search. Now to find something that runs on a computer... I've searched google for a while, but all I could find is BS software and a windows8 app (which I cannot run). Lots of stuff that looks like adware and other BS, and maybe one or two that were way too expensive in comparison. I already do have Human Japanese on my computer, but it doesn't have much of a dictionary. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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by thany
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Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows?
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2012/12/18 18:32
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Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.
Jim Breen's page looks daunting O.o
As for ZKanji, how stupid of me that I didn't think of looking at SF.net, there's always some interesting/promising project going on. Thanks for finding that for me ;)
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by thany
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Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows?
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2012/12/19 20:22
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Again, thanks :) I already found Tagaini in the mean time. It was on a blog posting somewhere with a whole bunch of windows software like this (nog Breen's page, tho). I forgot where I found it :/
The firefox and Chrome plugins might be helpful at some point, but not for now. I was actually looking for a dictionary where I can type in kanji/yomi/romaji/english and find their meaning or translation. That's a slightly different use case.
I think Tagaini pretty much covers my use case. Its interface is a little too bloated (not in a bad way tho) for my purposes, but it will do perfectly fine nonetheless. I just hope that whatever dictionary it is built on top of, is a good one :)
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Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows?
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2012/12/19 20:52
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Meanwhile, I re-found the blog that I referred to earlier:
http://shinobukaneko.blogspot.nl/2011/03/my-japanese-learning-tools.html
For anyone who's interested :)
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