Hi,

As the topic says, I'm considering getting 研究社 for my android phone, but I'd like to ask if somebody else here has it first and can recommend it, before I shell out the 30+ dollars that it costs. I only found a thread discussing the Iphone version. The only experience I have with the dictionary is through Rikaisama, and there it seems like the most solid J-E dictionary I've seen.

I would just get an EPWING viewer like EBPocket or Droidwing. That way you can search all EPWING dictionaries at once. I have mine set up to search a bunch of J-J & J-E dictionaries on my phone, including 研究社新和英大辞典. The apps may have a later version of the dictionary, but EPWING versions are more convenient.

30+? Must be the 中辞典, the awesome 大辞典 is over $100.

Seconding the EPWING suggestion. 研究社 can be a little picky about the spellings it accepts (sometimes not listing all alternative kanji, not even listing a kanji for some verbs, failing to recognize non-standard okurigana) so it's nice to have, say, EDICT as backup for its ability to recognize all possible spellings of a word.

Plus the platform independence.

Thanks for the replies. Droidwing etc sounds even better then, if I can use more than just that dictionary. Does that mean I need to transfer the EPWING dictionary files from my computer to my android and then open those with Droidwing (the ones I use with Rikaisama)?

Indeed I was looking at the smaller version of that dictionary.. 100+ dollars sounds a bit over the top if there's a better alternative.

@Termy Yes, just copy your EPWING files to a folder on your phone & choose it in the Droidwing settings when it asks for the dictionary folder path. It's that easy.^-^ Definitely get an EPWING version of EDICT too, like Vempele said. I don't read the definitions when there are matches in other dictionaries, but EDICT is very good at listing alternate spellings which the professional dictionaries don't show. It's a decent backup if the other dics don't have anything.

I got EBPocket Pro and 研究社 on my phone now and it works like a charm. I'll add the others later. Thanks a whole bunch! Now it's even more pleasing to study on my phone. *Runs off and fondles his Note 3*

Glad it helped!

[Zgarbas]

I use imiwa, and 99% of the time it finds whatever it is I'm looking for.

Sorry for reviving an old thread but I need help with AndroidWing. I cannot for the love of my life get it to recognise my EPWING dictionaries. What am I supposed to do? With the EPWING version of EDICT I have to two folders, DATA and GAIJI. I put them in a folder called "dicts" in the "sdcard" folder, I set the directory to /sdcard/dicts, and nothing happens, I swear. I've tried a hundred other combinations, yet still it DOES NOT RECOGNISE ANY EPWING DICTIONARY. This is so ***** frustrating

Here's the folder structure of my copy of EPWING Edict:

Code:

CATALOGS
JMDICT
    DATA
        HONMON.ebz
    GAIJI
        GAI16H.ebz

It sounds like you're missing the CATALOGS file (which tells the reader where all the other files are). Don't worry if your files have no extension; it's just that mine are compressed.

Wow, thank you Vempele! This actually seemed to work with my EDICT dictionary.

Now my problem is that I can't get my 研究社 dictionary to work. This is the folder structure of my copy of EPWING 研究社新英和大辞典・第６版

Code:

CATALOGS
EIDAI6
        DATA
        GAIJI

DroidWing now recognises the dictionary, but when I search for a Japanese word only EDICT entries show up. 研究社 has nothing. And yes, I have activated them both. What could be the problem?

英和 means English-Japanese. You want the 研究社新和英大辞典・第5版 (there's no 6th edition)

Thank you so much!