Tired of having to go to a website to painfully work your way through a
translations of Japanese? You don't want to fork over $50.00US or more for a
decent character dictionary? The new electronic dictionaries capable of
running on your computer are now much better than in the past, and guess
what, they are a good deal less costly than the printed versions. The
electronic versions have translations/definitions that are entirely too
terse for my liking, but then again, you can look things up faster in them
and they do not cost as much as the printed versions. There is one other
catch, you will need to learn how to read hiragana and katakana.
Fortunately, learning the kana is not difficult, particularly if you have
had any exposure to Spanish, Italian or even Latin.
 
 
Most of these electronic dictionaries use Professor Jim Breen's kanji
database as source material (so do most online dictionaries) and he has gone
to great lengths to keep the costs of such dictionaries quite low. To begin
a search for a Kanji-English dictionary that will run on your computing
platform, begin here:
 
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html
 
If you cannot yet read hiragana or katakana, do not despair. The links on
this page will lead you to resources that can help you with that little
problem. Mind you, it IS a minor problem. Don't be afraid of the kana.
 
Regards,
 
Don Granberry.


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