I haven't really seen anyone mention anything about http://jisho.org thats what i've been using and it's pretty good i think...

does nobody use this dictionary?

I pay for Kenkyusha and it's well worth it, imo.

Nowadays when I read I just scribble down new words. Every 3-4 days, I will look them all up on KOD and read a ton of example sentences for each word. I do my best to avoid the translations unless absolutely necessary. Then I just grab one I feel is good for my SRS and I'm done. Pretty painless and efficient way of learning new vocab, IMO.

hanzy Wrote:I haven't really seen anyone mention anything about http://jisho.org thats what i've been using and it's pretty good i think...

Jisho.org is just another interface (albeit a really good one) to EDICT, KANJIDIC and the Tanaka Corpus.

You know what really ticks me off about the Kenkyusha? The printed version indicates pitch accent and grammatical function (ie noun/verb/whatever), but the electronic versions don't. Is this ridiculous, or is it just me? I'm not buying it on principle.

rich_f Wrote:Just a postscript about online dictionaries-- I'm a huge fan of using Mycroft with Firefox to add search boxes for the Yahoo and Excite.co.jp (Kenkyuusha) dictionaries, as well as alc.co.jp, right in your browser.

Thanks for this! I posted your recommendation in the Essential Resources thread.

rich_f Wrote:Just a postscript about online dictionaries-- I'm a huge fan of using Mycroft with Firefox to add search boxes for the Yahoo and Excite.co.jp (Kenkyuusha) dictionaries, as well as alc.co.jp, right in your browser.

Or you can use Opensearchfox for creating your search plugins by yourself for any website including a search function.

EDIT: Forget that, I used that plugin in the ol' times of FF 2, but now you don't need it. Check here.

You can also use keywords for your search plugins. For example, when I need to look up a word, I press ctrl-L (that takes you to the location bar) and then write something like "y 言葉" or "alc 言葉" (without the quotation marks), press enter and that way I can look up "言葉" at the Yahoo dicts or at ALC without even using the mouse. Of course, you can use your own search plugins and keywords.

Both Firefox and Google Chrome comes with that functionality, why would you want to download an addon for it?

Sorry, already edited my post.

Anyway, according to the oficial info

Quote:Some web sites offer search engines that you can add to Firefox. These search engines are specific to the web site.

Are there still too many web sites that don't offer their search engines to use them directly within Firefox? If that isn't the case, what is the point of all the Mycroft Project?