Compilation of Japanese programs for computer/phone

[play_on_my_words]

I felt like making a post on programs that relate to Japanese learning and the like. I spent some time into finding them, so hopefully my time spent will help others.

Computer:

• JWPce - basically a dictionary with various ways of looking up kanji. There is no hiragana to kanji conversion when you look up a word in the dictionary ( at least as far as I know, there might be an option to turn it on). ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWPce )
• Anki - is an SRS program. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki )
• Tagaini Jisho - Japanese learning program useful for N1-5 type studying. Has a lot of features and its pretty nice.
• KeyHoleTV - a program useful for watching Japanese television doesn't have a super wide variety of channels and the quality isn't that great but it probably the most reliable thing I could find out all the programs that held or fulfilled similar functions. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeyHoleTV )
• Google Japanese IME - this is an alternative to the Microsoft IME. I find it to be a bit better than Microsoft's in a couple respects, but Microsoft's IME Pad is a bit better in my opinion. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Japanese_Input )

Phone (Android):

• AnkiDroid
• E-J Dictionary by Naver - A pretty good dictionary which provides sentence examples.
• Google Japanese IME - Same as stated above.
• Aedict - a good dictionary however it doesn't have the most extensive dictionary. It's still good and it has a notepad like feature that is useful for storing words you've found while searching.
• Obenkyo - an overall good tool for those interested in studying for N1-5 studies. The thing to note here is that for kanji studying it will either let you draw the kanji, recognize its meaning, or go by its reading.

Other:

• Wakan - this program I'm not exactly sure about it seems good but I haven't given it much tinkering around but you can check it out.

Anyway this is a list of programs I've found that are pretty useful for studying Japanese. If I find new programs, I'll try to add it to the list later.

[jimbreen]

JWPce - basically a dictionary with various ways of looking up kanji. There is no hiragana to kanji conversion when you look up a word in the dictionary ( at least as far as I know, there might be an option to turn it on). ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWPce )

JWPce is a word-processor, and has a built-in IME. (I forget how you invoke it - it's years since I used it.)

The dictionary function is really ancillary, but it's nice to have it within the WP.

Speaking of WPs and dictionaries, there's a plugin for OpenOffice which allows a RikaiChan-style dictionary lookup by hovering the pointer over text.

Jim

[play_on_my_words]

JWPce - basically a dictionary with various ways of looking up kanji. There is no hiragana to kanji conversion when you look up a word in the dictionary ( at least as far as I know, there might be an option to turn it on). ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWPce )

JWPce is a word-processor, and has a built-in IME. (I forget how you invoke it - it's years since I used it.)

The dictionary function is really ancillary, but it's nice to have it within the WP.

Speaking of WPs and dictionaries, there's a plugin for OpenOffice which allows a RikaiChan-style dictionary lookup by hovering the pointer over text.

Jim

True its a word-processor, I rarely end up using it for that though. However, others might use it that way. I found an action for converting using Ctrl+F2 but no automatic conversation after looking through it ( I could be blind though). Never knew about the OpenOffice plugin, thanks for the info.

[phreadom]

Speaking of WPs and dictionaries, there's a plugin for OpenOffice which allows a RikaiChan-style dictionary lookup by hovering the pointer over text.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/itadaki/

or maybe

http://code.google.com/p/itadaki/ (Looks like the bottom 3 downloads on this page are the relevant ones?)

Is that the one you're referring to Jim? (The second one offers compiled versions of the latest development repository, so it's a tiny bit more "up to date" (offering 1.0alpha2 instead of 1.0alpha1), but isn't the actual author or authoritative source etc.)

[jimbreen]

Speaking of WPs and dictionaries, there's a plugin for OpenOffice which allows a RikaiChan-style dictionary lookup by hovering the pointer over text.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/itadaki/
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No, the one I mean was "jitenize":
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jitenize/files/

There's a YouTube video of how to install and use it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK5Vs3YQ1jg

It has a nice option that you can get it to create numbered footnotes containing translations. In fact that's its purpose, but you can use it in hover mode as well.

Jim

[richvh]

JWPce is a word-processor, and has a built-in IME. (I forget how you invoke it - it's years since I used it.)

To invoke the IME, hold down <shift> for the first (romaji) character typed. It will convert on the next shifted character, a punctuation mark or whitespace. A list of possible conversions will be given at the bottom of the main window. I forget how to cycle through them without using the mouse; it should be in the help somewhere.

[Hektor6766]

F2 for the next kanji to the right, F3 to go left. (Or control , > or <)

[Ranja]

「NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典」(NHK Dictionary of Japanese Pronunciation and Accents) というのもあります。
iPhone版

Android版

[baskerville]

I just remembered how useful JWPCE was to me when I was studying Japanese. This was looong before there were apps for everything. I remember using it as my primary word processor and dictionary for anything Japanese. I even created lists of words/phrases I learned from translating showbiz news