Comments on: Japanese-English and English-Japanese online dictionary

By: LGT

LGT — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:38:07 +0000

I personally use tangorin.com &http://www.j-prep.com/reference/home.

Hope it helps someone out there.

By: kirin

kirin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:32:05 +0000

Thank you for sharing your experience. The problem is…I don't know how hard it is for you to learn Japanese, because it's my mother language and I don't know the easier way for foreigners to learn it. To solve your problem, it's better you take a look at Japanese lessons conducted by foreigners who studied it. I'm sorry I am not the right person for your question. I can give you native pronunciation but I cannot answer your question like that. I'm sorry for that, mei.

By: mei

mei — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:30:50 +0000

Kirin, once, it was about 5 month ago – I ever tried to learn Japanese language. But, as time goes by, I gave up "(. The reason was because I founded it very difficult to me. I can say watashi wa namae na Maria desu or similar introduction way. But when it comes to writing in kanji…wuahh I gave up. Maybe you have suggestion how is the easier way to learn your language??

By: kirin

kirin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:08:39 +0000

Oh Melusine, I'm glad you enjoy my blog! Also thank you so much for sharing the useful links with me. I started to listen to radio program in the morning, which is 15 minutes French lesson, 15 minutes of Italian, and last 15 minutes of Spanish. 3 languages at a time, but it's OK because they sometimes share similar words, and 15 minutes is too short anyhow. I'll bookmark the links. Thank you!

By: Melusine

Melusine — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:13:03 +0000

when I have time I do like come and read your blog. I do have quite a catch up to do. anyway for french speaker you have this two site that can be useful : the first one it's a dictionnary french/japanese and vice and versa as the second one it's mostly a kanji one. http://kanji.free.fr/stroke.php http://www.dictionnaire-japonais.com/

By: kirin

kirin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:29:49 +0000

I'm glad to hear that this blog is helpful to you.

By: cin

cin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:28:40 +0000

I love this site! I always use it for assignments My lecturers say that it is not a dictionary but a database of Japanese and English text. But either way it's very useful

By: kirin

kirin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:44:02 +0000

As a native Japanese who studied English over 10 or 20 years, I can tell you one thing.
English and Japanese are so different and that's why we have such hard time learning it!
I sometimes think that Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese might be easier for the Japanese to learn when it comes to pronunciation. But of course, there are many English native speakers who speak good Japanese, which means there's no way you cannot be like that!

Japanese has slang, too. We have regional dialect too. But unlike English which is spoken in the U.S, U.K, Australia, NZ, Singapore, India, and a lot more, there's no other country where Japanese is spoken. In that sense, it doesn't happen something like that U.S people call 1st floor, while U.K people call ground floor and they mean the same thing.

I may make a video about Japanese language, too in the near future.
I believe you can enjoy Kyoto a lot because I think it gets along with your taste.

By: riotnikki

riotnikki — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:25:30 +0000

I wish I could speak and understand Japanese. I would like to learn. I was good at languages back in my school days and learned Spanish and French but they are very similar and not too far from English really (plus we use many French and Spanish words in English too). I watch many Japanese films and TV shows with subtitles and I have picked up some words here and there but not much. Is English a difficult language to learn when you speak Japanese? Does the Japanese language have lots of slang the way English does? What about differences in accents – we have many different accents here in the US. All I want to do is go to Japan and eat bento, have lots of ramen and udon and sushi. And go to Kyoto and visit Buddhist temples and go to Japanese toy stores for re-ment!

By: kirin

kirin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:42:55 +0000

Oh you got some tips on Japanese cooking, too! I'll try to make some Japanese videos, too. But my blog readers range from beginner to advanced. So I wonder what I can do with videos. Maybe I just ramble, for example, about cultural difference in Japanese and in English alternately so you roughly get used to how native Japanese sound like. I think Japanese pronunciation is closer to Spanish or Italian rather than English or French. It's basically flat and less intonation and always "vowel plus consonant" combination. In that sense, English and Japanese are so different!!