Kenkyusha Subscription - worth the money?

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Reply #26 - 2008 October 31, 4:47 pm
hanzy New member
From: London Registered: 2008-09-20 Posts: 5

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?

Last edited by hanzy (2008 October 31, 4:47 pm)

Reply #27 - 2008 October 31, 4:50 pm
suffah Member
From: New York Registered: 2006-09-14 Posts: 261

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.

Reply #28 - 2008 October 31, 5:16 pm
iSoron Member
From: Canada Registered: 2008-03-24 Posts: 490

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.

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Reply #29 - 2008 November 01, 2:38 pm
snallygaster Member
Registered: 2007-06-11 Posts: 98

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.

Reply #30 - 2008 November 01, 10:46 pm
Thora Member
From: Canada Registered: 2007-02-23 Posts: 1691

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.

Reply #31 - 2008 November 02, 1:27 am
Transtic Member
Registered: 2007-07-29 Posts: 201

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.

Last edited by Transtic (2008 November 02, 9:38 am)

Reply #32 - 2008 November 02, 6:41 am
Tobberoth Member
From: Sweden Registered: 2008-08-25 Posts: 3364

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

Reply #33 - 2008 November 02, 9:49 am
Transtic Member
Registered: 2007-07-29 Posts: 201

Sorry, already edited my post.

Anyway, according to the oficial info

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?