Fiveonefive Diglot Groupie Japan Joined 5692 days ago 69 posts - 88 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Swedish
| Message 17 of 20 13 June 2011 at 2:08am | IP Logged |
I recommend Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary and the Kanji Learner's Dictionary by the same publisher.
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Ichiro Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6208 days ago 111 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Malay
| Message 18 of 20 14 June 2011 at 5:56pm | IP Logged |
While seconding everything good said about Japanese electronic dictionaries and the alc.co.jp site, for a paper dictionary you cannot do better than the Shogakukan Progressive Dictionary. It's chock-a-block of useful example sentences -
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The thing about paper dictionaries is that, if you happen to be in Tokyo, you can pick one up for next to no money in the second-hand bookshops of Jinbocho.
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irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6049 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese
| Message 19 of 20 15 June 2011 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
Ichiro wrote:
While seconding everything good said about Japanese electronic dictionaries and the alc.co.jp site, for a paper dictionary you cannot do better than the Shogakukan Progressive Dictionary. It's chock-a-block of useful example sentences -
The thing about paper dictionaries is that, if you happen to be in Tokyo, you can pick one up for next to no money in the second-hand bookshops of Jinbocho. |
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Thanks for the recommendation, it looks like a great dictionary.
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Mei190 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5339 days ago 29 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese
| Message 20 of 20 15 June 2011 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
Shogakukan progressive dictionary is one of the better J-E dictionaries. But honestly the best ones out there are of course the J-J dictionaries.
On the other hand when looking J-E online, I do quite like WWWJDIC. I find it quite a useful dictionary with audio and sample sentences on quite a lot (but unfortunately not all) words.
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