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Originally Posted by popster
As somebody who just started learning Japanese, I wanted to throw this question out there.
A few of you mentioned Canon G50 and Casio Ex-word. I visited Bic Camera shop and a few local retailers and notice electronic dictionaries in Japan are geared for Japanese to learn English, not the other way around.
For those with electronic dictionaries, I'd love your feedback.
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Pretty much all are as you described. Obviously a store in Japan isn't going to make many products intended for students of Japanese when it's such a nonexistent market there.
There was one dictionary that had just come out when I was there that was specifically made for students of Japanese, but I can't remember what it was. However, while my G50 was made for Japanese learning English, I think this is a misleading characterization. It has a huge JP->JP dictionary and kanji dictionary (both of which are tremendously useful for an advanced learner who doesn't want a single-word English translation, but a more nuanced explanation of words), and the JP->EN and EN->JP are not lacking.
My dictionary is
almost as useful, IMO, as SpaceALC. SpaceALC just (obviously) has a larger number of sample sentences.