squarezebra Wrote:If you bought a CASIO with an SD slot you can pick up the 新和英大辞典 for about £80... probably cheaper second hand. I have this dictionary as standard on my Casio XD-A9800 (which was VERY expensive when i bought it), and I rely on this dictionary 99% of the time. Theres a reason they call it the "green goddess". It's J > E though, and not the other way around.

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Just to add, I really disagree with all the stick that Codefromtokyo's Japanese app gets. I don't have midori, but since i have no issues with 'Japanese' I don't see the merit in splashing the cash out again. Japanese has NEVER crashed or bugged out on me. Kotoba, in my humble opinion, whilst free, is junk. But thats just my opinion, and there'll be hundreds more here who'll sing its praise.

Have you tried the "日本語キーワードで英語の例文を探す" under "複数辞書日本語で検索(複数日本語)?"

I'm in Japan right now, so that's how I got ATOK. Before I left, I tried to get it from the US Market: no dice. I prefer it to Simeji, although Simeji is still pretty good. (Just butt-ugly.) I think ATOK does a better job of predicting what I want to say than Simeji does... except when I want to use English... but then I switch over to the Android keyboard anyway, because both of them kind of suck at English prediction.

Since I mainly use it on my tablet, that's what I'm basing my opinion on. It's hard to find a *good* full-size tablet keyboard for Android that does Japanese. I've tried a bunch of them. Ugh.

I need to go to Nagoya this weekend and start looking at new electronic dictionaries, because mine is starting to crap out, and fast. Yesterday, I couldn't get the "I" key to work, now when I hit it, I get いいいいいいいいいいいい all over the place. -_-# I suppose it stored up all of the ones from yesterday when I kept mashing the key and cursing at it.

Omoishinji Wrote:@Bokusenou I mean like "き？ん" so that I can find words such as きあん or きいん.

Ah, it looks like it does have wildcard support.