29 Posts Found

Lorenzi’s Jisho is a new Japanese learners’ dictionary based on JMDict, the Japanese-Multilingual Dictionary File that many other Japanese-English dictionaries, including the mighty Jisho, are based on. Lorenzi’s Jisho has many similar functions to Jisho, such as an extensive range of lookup options, including English, Japanese, romaji, kanji, and many more.

Lorenzi’s Jisho also has some handy bonus features, like pitch accent information and a … [ Read more ]

Subjects: Language Study, Software / Tools, Translate

Kanji Converter is an interesting online tool that lets you paste Japanese text to convert. Well, there are other options for that, but where this one differs is that you can toggle different display options on and off. For example, you can show furigana or romaji and English translations. You can highlight all the words by part of speech (nouns, adjectives, particles, etc.). Clicking on … [ Read more ]

Author: Gary Ross | Subjects: Language Study, Reading Material, Software / Tools

This addon will let you toggle furigana on pages that have it embedded. That is of only limited use as a lot of sites in Japanese won’t have furigana embedded. Generally speaking, IPA furigana (Firefox, Chrome), which adds furigana to pages that don’t already have it supported, would be the better alternative but that only allows you to toggle the furigana on and … [ Read more ]

Author: Darren Lester | Subjects: Language Study, Miscellaneous, Reading Material, Software / Tools, Technology

This is a port of the useful and popular Chrome extension for Firefox. It looks up the readings for kanji words and inserts them as furigana.

Author: Junaid Babu | Subjects: Language Study, Miscellaneous, Reading Material, Software / Tools, Technology

A browser extension allowing the injection of phonetic annotations for Japanese text (furigana) on the fly. Uses the IPADIC Japanese dictionary.

• Works locally in your browser – no external server required
• Automatically detects pages where furigana insertion is possible
• Can switch between displaying the readings as hiragana, katakana or romaji
• Persistent mode – extension will add furigana to all pages automatically until turned off
• Customizable

… [ Read more ]

Author: quro | Subjects: Language Study, Miscellaneous, Reading Material, Software / Tools, Technology

Rikaikun is a port of the popular Rikaichan Firefox browser addon (now supplanted by Rikaichamp) for Chrome. Install it and you can easily translate Japanese by hovering over words (they’ll be translated in a pop up). If you hit shift/enter, you’ll see some information about the first Kanji.

Author: Erek Speed | Subjects: Language Study, Miscellaneous, Software / Tools, Technology, Translate

If you’ve been around a while you may remember the fantastic Rikaichan browser extension. That is no longer supported but this is a successor to it. Install this if you use Firefox to look up Japanese words with the hover of a mouse.

After enabling the add-on from the toolbar (or press Alt+R) simply hover over Japanese text and a popup displays corresponding dictionary definitions. Use … [ Read more ]

Author: Brian Birtles | Subjects: Language Study, Miscellaneous, Software / Tools, Technology

Kata is a Japanese reader for Android that auto segregates Japanese text (kanji, katakana, hiragana) on your phone and gets the translation while showing furigana above kanji. It is free with no ads.

I haven’t played with this a lot, but it seems like a great tool for three things.

1. You can read NHK news (easy or regular) directly in the app. All kanji already have

… [ Read more ]

Subjects: Apps, Language Study, Reading Material, Software / Tools

Mazii is a Japanese dictionary and translation tool available online or via app. which support camera (app), voice, and handwriting input. Features include:

• Look up vocabulary in Japanese, English, romaji, hiragana
• Online pronunciation, transliteration with kanji, romaji and hiragana
• Separate Japanese sentences, translate Japanese into English or English into Japanese
• Look up Japanese grammar
• Look up kanji, full of information about kanji including meaning, how

… [ Read more ]

Subjects: Language Study, Software / Tools, Translate

Kanshudo is the fastest and most enjoyable way to learn and remember the Japanese kanji and written Japanese generally. Whatever your current level of Japanese ability, Kanshudo will help you improve, with assessment tools such as our unique visualization of your kanji ability, the Kanji Wheel, games such as Kanji Match and Word Match, the Kanji Quiz, fun and engaging Beginner lessons and Intermediate lessons, … [ Read more ]

Author: Jonathan Kirk | Subjects: General, Language Study, Software / Tools, Translate

In this series, Tofugu asks learners what Japanese learning resources and methods they use to study and why. Today, we talk to Jonathan Kirk, the guy who made the popular kanji learning app, *Kanshudo*. Jonathan focused on building up his reading skill first (which led him to create his kanji learning system). So if you want to boost your Japanese reading ability, pay attention.

Editor’s Note: … [ Read more ]

Author: Jonathan Kirk | Source: “Tofugu” | Subjects: Language Learning Tips, Language Study, Software / Tools

This site provides a widget that you can use to include a random kanji in your blog (or any website).

Source: “Joseph McDermott” | Subject: Software / Tools

pretty self-explanatory…

Source: “日本語 a go-go / Scott” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools

Japanize is a Firefox plugin which translates popular English websites into Japanese. [Hat tip to Nihongojouzu.com]

Source: “31tools.com” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools

KingKanji is an award winning Japanese / kanji flashcard program that emphasizes writing as well as reading. It includes stroke animation and automatic feedback for over 1,200 characters including first through sixth grade Joyo kanji and kana. A flashcard may contain single or multiple kanji and kana along with the English meaning. Over 294 lessons are included and additional kanji lessons can be created using … [ Read more ]

Source: “Gakusoft” | Subject: Software / Tools

grab a handful of Japanese fonts on this site…

Source: “dafont.com” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools

Jonathon Delacour offers a blog post on reading/writing Japanese with various computer systems and with Movable Type blog software.

Source: “Jonathon Delacour” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools

The Tanaka Corpus consists of roughly 180,000 parallel Japanese-English sentences and is the basis of the example sentences found in the WWWJDIC dictionary server. It is freely available at this site for you to use in any projects you may wish.

Sources: “Jim Breen”, “Paul Blay”, “Yasuhito Tanaka” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools

Peter Rivard has written an article about setting up a PDA to be a super dictionary.

Source: “Peter Rivard” | Subjects: PDA Technology, Software / Tools

Source: “Tokyo Tsure Zure Gusa” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools