Aitas Japanese Language School

Japanese Study Aids / Dictionary

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Oxford Beginner's Japanese Dictionary

*We recommend this dictionary to all AITAS students.

-English to Japanese section
-Japanese to English section
-Appendix
(Usage notes/ Social Survival Guide/ Phrase finder/ Quick reference guide to life and culture)
-Publisher:Oxford University Press; Sep 2006

Basic Japanese-English

-Publisher:Oxford University Press; Sep 2004

Pocket Kenkyusha

-Publisher:Oxford University Press; Sep 2003

Electronic Dictionary

CASIO EX-WORD XD-470 (Japanese- English)

*We recommend this dictionary to all AITAS students.

-Stylus pen Input System (It is helpful to learn Kanji)
-CASIO Japan official website (July 2000)

Canon wordtank G55 (Japanese- English)

*We recommend this dictionary to all AITAS students.

-Stylus pen Input System (It is helpful to learn Kanji)
-CASIO Japan official website (July 2000)

Canon wordtank V80 (Japanese- Chinese- English)

*We recommend this dictionary to all AITAS students.

-Stylus pen Input System (It is helpful to learn Kanji)
-CASIO Japan official website (July 2000)

Canon wordtank G90 (Japanese- Chinese- English)

*We recommend this dictionary to all AITAS students.

-Stylus pen Input System (It is helpful to learn Kanji)
-CASIO Japan official website (July 2000)

Online / Software

Online

Denshi Jisho

Denshi Jisho is an easy-to-use and powerful online Japanese dictionary with word, kanji and sentence databases drawn from the WWWJDIC project.

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server: Word Search

Japanese WWW resources: software, education, dictionaries, culture, literature, etc. Provided by Jim Breen.

popjisho.com

POPjisyo is a web based pop-up dictionary for Japanese, Chinese, Korean and other languages.

Rikai

is a website that translates texts and websites by allowing you to see word groupings as well as their meanings and more by rolling the mouse over the text.

World Lingo

Free Online Language Translation.

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Software

Jlookup

Here is a dictionary (a good place to put them is the folder called 'DICT', which is in the same directory as the program). This will most likely never change, so you're safe just getting them once.