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Kanji Dictionary: Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $48.88
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1474
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 4 x 0.5 x 5
MPN: NTR-ARJJ-JPN
Model: Nintendo DS
ASIN: B000O2S9VQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New in box! Ships from Japan by Airmail. This popular kanji gamesoft works on any DS worldwide.
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| Features:
| • | Nintendo DS (Import) | | • | Japanese-English and English-Japanese translation | | • | Word search by Kanji | | • | English Pronunciation | | • | World clock, quiz games, and more! |
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Product Description
A must-have for Japanese language students. Why drop $200-300 on a fancy electronic dictionary when you can have the same funtionality PLUS the ability to input characters by DRAWING them on the touch screen? Other features include: Japanese to English dictionary, English to Japanese dictionary, English pronunciation, search history, quiz mode, word clock and calendar.PS Like easter eggs? Try looking up 'Manhole' or 'Judge' (in katakana) on your new Sonomama Kanji Dictionary... Game & Watch in the house!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
Terribly handy March 17, 2008
When you consider how much a dedicated electronic dictionary from SHARP or CASIO costs, this is a great bargain. Use the Nintendo DS you already have and turn it into a Japanese dictionary. Writing kanji using the stylus is very natural.
Excellent self study tool! A must-have for DS owners and Japanese students February 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I lived in Japan for 3 years and wish the DS and this dictionary were developed earlier! They would've made my life easier and helped my Japanese tremendously.
I looked at many options for an affordable, portable dictionary that accepted writing input, but nothing met my needs. The dictionaries from Casio, Seiko, and others cost upwards of $300 and almost all of them didn't have stylus inputs. I tried a Sony Clie PDA, but the included dictionary was minimalist and terrible as a study tool, providing only basic translations and occasionally, examples.
The biggest problem for students of Japanese is seeing a word and not knowing how to pronounce it. Not knowing the yomikata means you have to count strokes and look up by radical, which is often a giant and time-consuming pain in the butt. Writing is invariably faster, and this software is a godsend! It provides plenty of example sentences and usage, and I recommend this highly. If you already have a DS, this is the cheapest and most functional electronic dictionary on the market, in my opinion.
If you don't have a DS, buy one and buy this dictionary. It will pay for itself very shortly in time saved and language skills acquired.
Straight to the point October 27, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this game in the middle of a year of study abroad in Japan and immediately my life became so much easier. Japanese dictionaries will often have long, technical definitions, but Rakubiki Jiten does not hesitate to display, for example, questionable morals in their example sentences if it will get the gist of the word across. Some of the more obscure words will appear in only the Japanese-Japanese dictionary, but you can just look up the words you don't understand from that definition right there.
Great For Students of Japanese August 10, 2007
This is a great product for anyone studying Japanese. It's much more convenient than carrying a book and cheaper than buying a electronic dictionary.
Great Language Study Tool July 27, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
You'll need a Nintendo DS or Nintendo DS Lite game console to use this. Kanji Dictionary: Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten is my best investment in a Japanese language study tool to date. It's so portable and user-friendly compared to the big kanji dictionary that I used to use. Using this, I can read much more challenging Japanese texts than I used to be able to. When a kanji character that I can't read appears in the text, I can just write it on the screen with the stylus, click on the Japanese-English dictionary option, and I am shown both the hiragana pronunciation and the English definition of the word, with example sentences. I can also look up words in the kana mode, in which I use the stylus to write the word on the screen in kana, and then I can see the kanji and the English definition of the word. It's great! And, although it's Japanese game software, it's completely compatible with the U.S. version of the Nintendo DS Lite console, which you need to be able to use the software.
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