I'm trying to program something that will help me pull sentences from the internet, and it would be nice if I had a dictionary my computer could work with rather than having to look a word up online.

Are there any text, spreadsheet, whatever format downloadable Japanese dictionaries online someone could recommend?

There are none that I know of that are free. Eijirou (what alc uses) used to be free but once it got big they started charging.

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html

JWPce isn't J>J .

I have a firefox addin installed that translates japanese (http://perapera.wordpress.com/) using a dictionary called EDICT (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/j_edict.html)


edit:oops, it's not J>J either

If you're serious about Japanese, buy some decent dictionaries. You can get daijirin in a downloadable format.

Resolve, do you mean as an interactive dictionary or just a (though still useful) .pdf format?

a searchable dictionary. epwing format.

FYI

The Canon Wordtank V300 electronic dictionary has a very cool feature that does the following:

"The included USB cord allows you to connect the dictionary to your PC (but not Mac) and access the multiple dictionary search by highlighting a word (English or Japanese) and pressing a hotkey that you can assign. This function can be used in Internet Explorer or a Word document, for example. Of course there are online dictionaries that you could copy and paste words into, but this faster, accessible offline, and the Genius, Super Daijirin, and Kanjigen dictionaries included are perhaps better than some available online. Another advantage to using the USB cable with the dictionary is that the dictionary will draw power from your PC instead of the batteries, extending battery life."

Full review is here:
http://quinlanfaris.com/?p=71

I bought mine via White Rabbit Press Customer Order(from Japan)
for 24,000 yen(dictionary) + 2000 yen(shipping).
Total: 26000 yen (roughly $253 US Dollars)

chamcham Wrote:FYI

The Canon Wordtank V300 electronic dictionary has a very cool feature that does the following:

"The included USB cord allows you to connect the dictionary to your PC (but not Mac) and access the multiple dictionary search by highlighting a word (English or Japanese) and pressing a hotkey that you can assign. This function can be used in Internet Explorer or a Word document, for example. Of course there are online dictionaries that you could copy and paste words into, but this faster, accessible offline, and the Genius, Super Daijirin, and Kanjigen dictionaries included are perhaps better than some available online. Another advantage to using the USB cable with the dictionary is that the dictionary will draw power from your PC instead of the batteries, extending battery life."

Full review is here:
http://quinlanfaris.com/?p=71

I bought mine via White Rabbit Press Customer Order(from Japan)
for 24,000 yen(dictionary) + 2000 yen(shipping).
Total: 26000 yen (roughly $253 US Dollars)

I can't imagine why someone would want to hookup a denshijisho to their computer instead of just getting a much much easier to use EPWING dictionary. Maybe if you want an (average and overpriced model) denshijisho too you can kill two birds with one stone I guess...

Jarvik7 Wrote:I can't imagine why someone would want to hookup a denshijisho to their computer instead of just getting a much much easier to use EPWING dictionary. Maybe if you want an (average and overpriced model) denshijisho too you can kill two birds with one stone I guess...

I agree with you. Computer dictionaries are much more flexible. One thing mobile dictionaries have going for them is that you don't have to be at your computer to look up something. What I'm planning to do because of this is to sell my current ipod and buy a itouch off ebay. Then put my computer dictionaries on the iDic. I can't get the 大辞林3 in epwing, though. Jarvik, do you know if there's a huge difference between 2 and 3 (besides amount of words)?

The only thing I can add to this topic is that the Macbook Pro (and I'm guessing other Macs as well) has a J-J dictionary already installed (actually it's for any language, depending on which language the computer is set to). Now if this could be downloaded somewhere online, that's how this could be helpful for you. Anyone know if such a possibility exists?

If anyone's curious about the interface here's a picture: http://i35.tinypic.com/wlytr5.jpg

Nuriko Wrote:The only thing I can add to this topic is that the Macbook Pro (and I'm guessing other Macs as well) has a J-J dictionary already installed (actually it's for any language, depending on which language the computer is set to). Now if this could be downloaded somewhere online, that's how this could be helpful for you. Anyone know if such a possibility exists?

OSX has J-J (大辞泉), J<->E (Progressive), Japanese thesaurus (類語例解辞典), E-E (New Oxford American) and an English thesaurus (American Oxford). They are all for-pay dictionaries that Apple licensed so no, you can't download them.

Alyks: I think the 3rd edition adds lots of images and sounds and whatnot too. But since it isn't EPWING and can't be converted, it's dead to me.