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Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary Japanese/English English/Japanese 23 reviews
Langenscheidt
Langenscheidt Publishers, 2001
Must have!
I bought this for my 11-year-old son who wants to learn Japanese on his own. He says it has many current words and phrases and is easy to reference. This has a chart of Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana (Japanese symbols) that he can use while he learns to write. This dictionary tells you how to count and how to say numbers (such as first, second, etc.).
I also purchased the Merriam-Webster's ...
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Japanese English Bilingual Bible 12 reviews
Word of Life Press, 2005
This is the one
If you are a native English speaker living in Japan or studying Japanese, and if you need the WHOLE Bible with side-by-side translations on each page, with furigana over the Kanji to show you how the Kanji is pronounced, then this is the Bible for you.
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Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary 55 reviews
Seigo Nakao
Random House Reference, 1997
My favorite Japanese / English Dictionary
This is by far my favorite dictionary for Japanese. And believe me, I went through several trying to find one I liked. The Romanji and Kanji definitions are exactly what I needed as a beginner and now, as an intermediate student, they still prove very useful. I use this everyday.
I would also recommend The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary as a nice compliment to this dictionary. If ...
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Japanese-English Bilingual Bible New Testament: New Japanese Bible (NJB)New International Version (NIV) ...
Word of Life Press, 2008
This is the New Testament portion of the popular JapaneseEnglish Bilingual Bible with the New Japanese Bible (NJB) 3rd edition 2003 and the New International Version in parallel columns. This edition is in paperback and priced low for wide distribution. It is great for English Bible classes for Japanese students and adults. The bilingual appendix includes 16 pages of color Hammond maps, Harmony of the Gospels, Hebrew calendar and table of ...
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Webster's New World Compact Japanese Dictionary: Japanese/Engish-English/Japanese 10 reviews
Fujihiko Kaneda
Webster's New World, 1997
Simple but complete
Very useful if you are not used to look for words in kana. Easy to carry and complete for a basic use. Very recommendable for beginners.
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English Grammar for Students of Japanese: The Study Guide for Those Learning Japanese (English Grammar Series)3 reviews
Mutsuko Endo Hudson
Olivia & Hill Pr, 1994
A Must Have for Beginner/Intermediate students of Japanese
I think that it was Voltaire who said "To know another language is to know your own". Unfortunately I found that I knew my own (English) far less than I thought. In understanding how Japanese is structured I was often adrift because I did not really understand the components of English grammar. This book solves that problem. For example the structural position of relative clauses in ...
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Tuttle Pocket Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English English-Japanese
Samuel Martin, Fred Perry
Tuttle Publishing, 2008
The Tuttle Pocket Japanese Dictionary is the most up-to-date portable dictionary available. It is bidirectional with approximately 18,000 entries. The layout is extremely user-friendly, featuring easy-to-read headwords in blue to ensure that entries can be located with ease. Useful information and a brief introduction to Japanese usage and grammar are also included.
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Basic Japanese-English Dictionary5 reviews
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Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
Good choice, second to the best though
Okay, so I never ever feel compelled to write reviews but after reading the only one on here I feel like I have to. First of all the book is a JAPANESE to ENGLISH dictionary: you arent going to find the translations of english words into japanese, if you would like to I suggest you buy an ENGLISH to JAPANESE dictionary or possibly a combination of the two (random house has an excellent one for ...
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Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English English-Japanese56 reviews
Kodansha International
Kodansha International, 1999
THE BEST JAPANESE LANGUAGE DICTIONARY FOR BEGINNERS
I worn out my first copy of this dictionary during my 15 months as a Japanese Language student in Tokyo because I even used it when I went shopping. And I just bought a second. This may be the best Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary for beginning to intermediate students of Japanese (including the popular and far more expensive denki jisho), and actually, because of it's functional ...
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Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Japanese (Oxford Picture Dictionary)8 reviews
Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Norma Shapiro
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
wonderful!!! very useful for native English speakers too
This just arrived and I am sooo happy! Dont pay too much attention to reviewers here who claim this isnt useful for English speakers learning Japanese. I'm a rank beginner --- studied for 2 months so far and know only 175 kanji and very basic sentence structures --- yet I find this extremely useful. The kanji is easy to read and the illustrations are attractive. You could easily spend hours ...
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Kodanshas Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary (Japanese for Busy People)2 reviews
Timothy J. Vance
Kodansha International, 2002
Thorough, Handy, Durable
I'd recommend this dictionary to any starting student in Japanese. The entries are in Romaji, so looking up colloquialisms is no problem. Plenty of illustrations of usage are included under each entry, and it's a rare occasion when I can't find what I'm looking for. Of course, it's no subsitute for a kanji dictionary, but one of the burdens that students must bear in learning Japanese is that ...
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Martin's Pocket Dictionary: English-Japanese Japanese-English1 review
Samuel E. Martin
Tuttle Publishing, 1990
Absolutely Indispensable
This pocket dictionary is by far the most useful Japanese pocket dictionary I have ever used (and I've used a few!). It is very easy to use, even for beginners. It also has a greater variety of words than some of the other dictionaries I've used, including the Basic Japanese/English Dictionary by Bonjinsha/Oxford. It's small enough to carry with you all over Japan or in your Japanese class, ...
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Japanese in Plain English, Second Edition (In Plain English)
Boye Lafayette De Mente
McGraw-Hill, 2007
Next time someone asks if you speak Japanese, you can say Sukoshi wakarimasu (Sue-koe-she wah-kahree-mahss).* With Japanese in Plain English , you can speak Japanese in no time! Its easy-to-use pronunciation system and straightforward presentation of the basics of the language-with plenty of useful sentences-help you break the language barrier quickly and confidently. How? All the words and phrases in this book are written in Roman ...
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The Little Bitty Snake = Chisana Chisana Hebi (English/Japanese Edition)3 reviews
Jorma Rodieck
Open Hand Pub., 1992
Expose kids to other languages
I bought a set of these three bilingual (English and Spanish/French/Japanese) books for my niece, aged three and a half. She's not quite reading yet, but I wanted to expose her to the idea of different languages early. She likes the bold and simple illustrations and the story when it is read to her in English.
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The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary23 reviews
Andrew N. Nelson, John H. Haig
Tuttle Publishing, 1997
Fantastic purchase!
Yes, I'm very happy for this shop!
I'm from Italy, and it was been shipped more less than 3 weeks!
Thanks a lot Amazon, everything was great!
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Kodanshas Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary (Japanese for Busy People)20 reviews
Masatoshi Yoshida, Yoshikatsu Nakamura
Kodansha International, 2002
Useful for the beginner
In my opinion this is a great book for a beginner.
There is not a single line in romaji, so you have to know kana; I guess this excludes real beginners, say those living the first month of their Japanese learning experience. After that you will find this book an amazing source of information. Each entry carries furigana both in the search key and in the following examples. Said examples are by ...
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The Original Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary: Classic Edition (Tuttle Language Library)4 reviews
Andrew N. Nelson
Tuttle Publishing, 2004
Only dictionary you'll need, unless you REALLY love kanji
Great dictionary. I got this "classic" version when it was the current version (1993). I learned with it and used it and never needed another Kanji dic.
After becoming proficient with Nelson, I raced some friends with Wordtanks (an electronic dic). We tied. So this isn't the fastest method, but it is so much more complete than the Wordtank. Someone should test Nelson against an updated ...
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Langenscheidt's Pocket Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English English-Japanese (Pocket Dictionary)1 review
Seigo Nakao
Langenscheidt Pub Inc, 1998
Great Book for Quick Reference
The book is very handy for day to day usage. It has a great up to date listing of words. Every word is given in both romaji and Kanji (plus Hiragana and Katakana when necessary) form of the words with both English-Japanese, Japanese-English handy listings. But I found it difficult to find some words we learned in Japanese language. Overall a great quick reference dictionary.
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Kenkyusha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary2 reviews
Kenkyusha
Kenkyu-Sha,Japan, 1990
Kenkyusha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary
This is an excellent book, both for Japanese people who are learning English and for non-Japanese speakers who are learning Japanese. It contains an enormous vocabulary of English words and their Japanese translations. There are 49,000 English headwords, many of which include variations of the headword. For example, the entry for the English word "luck" includes two Japanese words that mean ...
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Collins Gem Shubun English-Japanese Dictionary (Collins Gem)3 reviews
Harpercollins Publishers
Collins, 1995
Excellent tool for English speaker
Best English-to-Japanese dictionary I've owned. Good binding with all-weather plastic covers. Gives romanized and Kanji/Hiragana spellings of words, and invaluable example sentences. The book contains a surprising range of words. One weak point: the dictionary does NOT ALWAYS give the polite forms for verbs (e.g., does URU become URIMASU or UMASU ?). To complement Collins/Shubun's dictionary ...
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