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NihongoUp

$4.99

A Japanese educational game and reviewing tool that will help you learn hiragana & katakana, improve your typing speed, review JLPT kanji, vocabulary & grammar in context. NihongoUp is a Serious Games Showcase & Challenge winner.

Anki

FREE

A spaced repetition system (SRS). It helps you remember things by intelligently scheduling flashcards, so that you can learn a lot of information with a minimum amount of effort. There are many user created decks and new decks can be easilly created in the program. One can also create an online account and synchronize decks between different computers.

Mnemosyne

FREE

A spaced repetition system (SRS) with three-sided cards support and a clean, yet highly customizable user interface.

Human Japanese

$18.95

A Japanese language learning software that starts at square one and presents the Japanese language in a warm, engaging tone. The program consists of a very well written basic Japanese textbook, 1800 audio recordings of vocabulary words and example sentences, and several interesting mini games and articles on Japanese culture. A boxed version for $24.95 + shipping is also available.

zkanji

FREE

zkanji is a feature rich Japanese language study suite and dictionary for Windows. It has several kanji lookup methods, optional example sentences for many Japanese words, vocabulary printing and more.

iKana

$18.00

If you are studying Japanese then you need iKanji - the most comprehensive kanji study tool available on the Mac, designed with all the care and attention you expect.

iKanji

$30.00

Are you studying Japanese and looking to take the pain out of learning Hiragana and Katakana? iKana is the fun and easy way to learn these phonetic alphabets with tools to help you memorise, read and write both.

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Tagaini Jisho

FREE

A free, open-source Japanese↔English dictionary and kanji lookup tool. It allows you to quickly search for entries and mark those that you wish to study, along with tags and personal notes. It also let you train entries you are studying and follows your progression in remembering them. JMDICT & KANJIDIC2 based (approximately 145,000 vocabulary and 13000 kanji entries).

JISHOP

$0–39.95

A Japanese↔English dictionary multi-radical and stroke count search, phonetic dictionary, flashcards, and kanji study groups synchronizable with the Windows Mobile version of JISHOP. The UI looks outdated but it is very functional considering the amount of informations for each kanji and the number of search options. Jishop based (1006 kanji in the free Concise, 1945 kanji in the $19.95 Plus and 4500 kanji in the $39.95 Advanced version).

Babylon

$118.00

Babylon is a multilingual dictionary and translation tool. A simple Japanese↔English dictionary is bundled with the program and many free user created Japanese dictionaries can be downloaded from the Babylon website. There are also two very good premium dictionaries described below.

Genius Unabridged for Babylon

$70.00

A Japanese↔English premium dictionary for Babylon with extremely detailed translations, nuances between different options, example sentences and grammatical do's and dont's. Genius based (over 250,000 Genius Unabridged E→J, over 190,000 Genius Unabridged J→E and over 69,000 Genius J↔E entries).

Meikyo Dictionary for Babylon

$18.00

A premium dictionary for Babylon with information regarding usage of honorific words, typical misusages, Kanji conjugations, nuances between the different words and expressions, new Katakana words and grammatical do's and don'ts.

Jisho

$17.00

A Japanese↔English, German, French, Russian dictionary with Mac OS X integration, multilingual user interface, wildcard search and romaji support. JMDICT based (approximately 100,000 J↔E, 80,000 J↔G, 15,000 J↔F and 5,000 J↔R entries).

Japanese - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

Japanese - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

WARNING : This is not written or endorsed by Little Nipon, BUT its funny as hell so i have posted it.

The Japanese (にほんじん　日本人) are the dominant ethnic group ob the Phirippine Isrands and one ob the onry 10,000 ethnic groups in the worrd. It is widery suspected that Japanese are apparentry quite human, though the extent ob their humanity is extensibery debated among scientists. Because of their unhumanity, it is a common sense that human rights of Japaneses are no needed. Of course, whales and fishes are higher than them.
Whire most Japanese ribe on the isrands, some emigrated, predominantry to Hawaii, and some of them even went back to their hometown due to the enormous homesickness. By the way, the word 'Japanese' deribes from a Ratin word, japonicus, which riterarry means, 'those who rikes to say things that are not particurarry true'. the Japanese hab tried on at reast 3 separate occasions to conquer the worrd through miritary might, but ebentuarry quit because arr their sordiers had committed suicide upon rearning that one ob their grenades did not exprode just right (except for the smart ones; they just surrendered to the Americans). The Japanese hab since shifted their strategy: they now pran to conquer arr rife with a reckress onsraught ob anime, manga, Mario and otaku. Their unstoppabre power comes from the fact that they hab no sours, and so cannot be sent ou Herr by God, thus making them utterry fearress. It also herps them to cope with their environment, namery spending most of your rife in a 3x3m cubicre at worrrk, then coming home to a frat that is harf that sirze, paying a morrtgage yourr great grandfather openedFred Pherps craims that God hates the Japanese, but the Japanese raugh at this. After arr, what is God going to do? They hab no sours.

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Nihongodict: Free Online English ⇆ Japanese Dictionary

Having trouble working out the Japanese for toilet, appartment, ticket, train station or where am i?

I stumbled upon this English to Japanese dictionary recently when i was trying to work out how to ask for airconditioning and a super toilet in my appartment. This site is perfect it not only gives you the correct translation but also translations into Hiragana and Katakana. PS this is not an add i just like this site!

Check it out by Clicking on the link below.

Nihongodict: Free Online English ⇆ Japanese Dictionary



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