Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions?

squarezebra Wrote:That isn't the right kenkyusha. You linked to the 7th chuujiten. The one to get is the 5th shinwaei daijiten

Yeah, the chuujiten is about as good as any basic 和英 dictionary. I used to have it on my iPhone before I switched to Android. It's okay, but not stellar. (At least it's professionally edited.)

The 大辞典 is the one that's worth dropping ~10,000 yen for the Ex-Word. It has a lot more headwords and many more example sentences than any other 和英 I've seen, so it's incredibly useful for dealing with everyday Japanese, which often doesn't show up in dictionaries like the chuujiten.

Searching is a little different with the Ex-Word. If you use the 複数日本語 search button, you can search across all of the dictionaries on it at once. The only downside is that any dictionaries you install go to the end of the list. So that lovely Kenkyuusha is always the last result, which I think is really a bad design decision.

So I search in the Kenkyuusha first, then if I don't like what I see, I just tap the ジャンプ button on the upper screen, tap the word I want to look up, and it will search across a bunch of dictionaries. I can always go back to what I was looking at in Kenkyuusha by hitting the 戻る key.

Once you get it down, it's really fast.