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by **chopficaro** » Sat 01.29.2011 9:59 am

i have scoured the web for years looking for a good Romaji translator and have not found one
i would like to be able to type an English word into a text field, hit enter and get a list of Romaji translations
i would also like to be able to type a Romaji word into a text field and get a list of possible English translations
does anyone know of such a translator?

by **furrykef** » Sat 01.29.2011 2:00 pm

chopficaro wrote:i have scoured the web for years looking for a good Romaji translator and have not found one

Well, in those years you could have just taken the time to learn the kana.

Why do you need a romaji translator?

by **TJack** » Sat 01.29.2011 2:10 pm

Lol, dude you need to brush up on your google-fu. This was the first hit by typing English to romaji:

http://www.dicts.info/dictionary.php?l1 ... ese_romaji

It also goes from romaji to English.

But yeah, I concur with FurryKef, it'll been easier (and a lot better!) to simply learn hiragana and katakana and use a dictionary like http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi- ... dic.cgi?1C

by **jimbreen** » Sat 01.29.2011 7:49 pm

TJack wrote:But yeah, I concur with FurryKef, it'll been easier (and a lot better!) to simply learn hiragana and katakana and use a dictionary like http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi- ... dic.cgi?1C

What's more, that server lets you put in ローマ字. You can tell it the key is in ローマ字 either by ticking the "Search using romanized Japanese" box, or by putting an "@" at the start of the key, e.g. "@seikou".

Make sure it's proper ワープロローマ字, i.e. "toukyou", not "tookyoo" or "tôkyô".

Cheers

Jim