iJisho - Japanese <-> English Dictionary
By iJisho
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Description
Japanese -> English and English -> Japanese dictionary and Japanese learning tool for the iPhone and iPod touch including sample sentences and daily news and articles.
Features:
-EJ JE dictionary containing more than 200,000 definitions.
-Searchable English/Japanese example sentence database containing more than 150,000 sentence pairs.
-Bookmarks: Save upto 50 dictionary definitions and example sentences for later viewing and revision.
-Handwriting recognition: Input Kanji using the touch pad.
-Daily updated news and articles in both Japanese and English can now be downloaded to your device and viewed offline within iJisho.
Plus, an iPhone first, "Copy and Paste".
Simply touch any underlined word in the daily articles, and have it automatically looked up in the dictionary!
Perfect for learning the meaning and reading of Kanji and bookmarking words of interest.
NOTE: the entries in the English->Japanese dictionary are in normal Japanese (not in Romaji or plain Hiragana). Because of this, the English->Japanese dictionary may be of limited use to those who cannot read Kanji etc.
NOTE: this application requires a network connection (cellular or WiFi) to function.
What's New In Version 2.1
Major Upgrade:
This version of iJisho introduces the "Read" section, where daily news and other articles can be read in both English and Japanese.
The articles are integrated into the dictionary so that words can be looked up whilst reading. Underlined words are automatically cut and paste into the dictionary when clicked.
Customer Reviews
Not good for itouch
They don't tell you that you need a internet connection to get any definitions. None of it is in Romaji, so if you cannot read any of the Japanese alphabets it is almost pointless.
I want money bak
this needs Internet all the time and didn't mention on info which is scam! also if u don't know kangi and hiragana and katakana, u can even read dictionary.
Agree with most of the above . . . .
. . . But it's still useful if, for nothing else, verifying your Japanese is correct. Adding at least the hiragana pronunciation however would be helpful, and including archaic forms would be useful to me since most of the Japanese I've done lately is related to sword research, and I have a few books published around the 18th century (Edo Japan) that I would like to be able to read, as well as modern texts. Certainly cross translation is a necessary part of that, and it would be a most excellent upgrade to the app to put that in, and not difficult with a network connection using Bablefish if you have to. Right now I muddle through with a Kanji dictionary as I try to widen my Kanji and vocabulary, but grammar, that is where something like this is handier. Our Sensei taught us formal Japanese inferior mode, and though its very correct, it does not help much for day to day conversation, or reading.
All in all I call it a good start and look forward to updated versions with more functionality.
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$3.99
- Category: Education
- Updated:Aug 18, 2008
- Current Version:2.1
- 2.1
- 0.1 MB
- Language:English
- Seller:Daniel Kaldor
- © 2008 iJisho
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
