Denshi jisho, Electronic dictionary
 

Hi,
I am planning to buy a japanese-english electronic dictionary (denshi jisho).

Does anyone here use one that they think is good?

I would be very grateful for any recommendations :)

I have a Canon G50 that I bought 5 years ago and it has served me very well. I imagine there are newer models now, but a G50 should be quite cheap since it's not a newest model anymore.

I bought an iPod Touch. You buy the Touch, you get the Japanese app for $20, and voila! You have a do-everything media player with a perfectly good denshijisho on it for less than a denshijisho alone!

I live by it.

Oh wow! I am unfamiliar with the iTouch, but I want one. I have a friend who owns one and everything he plays around with it, it makes me want the device even more. I never knew that it had applications, useful ones at that! :P

I use "Kotoba!" because it's free.
There are also lots of free Kanji dictionaries on the App Store as well.

But Kotoba! is best for it's price; free.

I used Kotoba! at first but man, drop the 20 and get Japanese. You won't regret it. I swear it's worth your while. It's got vocab lists, organizes kanji by radical, JLPT level, school level, stroke number, it shows you how to write every kanji, you can build your own vocab or kanji study lists, etc.

Also you know how to do a write-in kanji search, right? It does that, too.

Kotoba! in my experience is good for sayings or phrases.

I have a Casio Exword, but I purchased it 5 years ago in Japan for around $250 (as far as I recall).

Given that iPod Touches start are $230, $299, $399 (for the 8g, 16g, 32g versions), and that my Exword has a touch pad for Kanji writing capabilities, I'll stick with it for now ;p

My only gripe with the Exword is that it was engineered to be more of a English dictionary for the Japanese, not really the other way around. Still, its pretty handy.

The plug is that iTouches can do everything a Jisho can and can't. Internet, video, pictures, email, calendar, weather, notepad (for new words!), games, oh, and music. That's what sold me. :cool:

Though half the reason I bought it was for the jisho program. :eek:

I don't think the dictionaries offered in the iPod Touch stuff are typically as valuable, but I'm open to having my mind changed. I would just assume the very expensive, proprietary dictionaries would not be available to someone vending a $20 iPhone app.

KaiTea it's called an iPod Touch, not an iTouch. Second, have you been living under a rock? It's one of the hottest items in pretty much every developed country in the world, probably only eclipsed by its big brother, the iPhone. :)