Version: 4.1.13 Downloads: 412 Download Time: 8.69 min at 56k Platform: Palm OS Type: Dictionary Language pairs: English <-> Japanese, Japanese <-> English Translation: Bidirectional Vocabulary size: 400,000 (words/phrases)   Price: $34.95
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This unique electronic dictionary provides bidirectional translations as well as powerful search functions such as Quick Search, Vector Ultima spell-checker and our signature MorphoFinder function. A new Katakana/Hiragana keyboard that allows input by radical (Kanji) is now built-in to facilitate easier typing. Its superior support for high resolution VGA and screen rotation makes for superior readability. Efficient and effective, this dictionary is both enjoyable and useful!

While the LingvoSoft Dictionary English <-> Japanese (Kanji-Romanization) for Palm OS is an entirely new dictionary in this series, improvements have been made to the application which include enhanced support for Tungsten T5 and Treo devices, superior design and updated interfaces. To save some bother for users of certain Palm devices, we have made the application to be executable from the Internal Card.

Dictionary features:

• Improved overall design of the application
• Tungsten T5 and Treo support
• Screen rotation support
• High-resolution support
• Enhanced dictionary keyboards for both languages
• Quick back translation for correct understanding
• Quick search function: as you start typing, entries begin appearing
• Switching between languages is easy: simply tap the pop-up trigger in the upper right corner and the direction of translation will change
• MorphoFinder™ function helps to find English source words (headwords) for past participles, gerunds, plural forms
• Superior Spellcheck function interface for both languages
• keyboard improved including Katakana/Hiragana
• Allows input by radical (Kanji)
• Direction of translation is kept the same when you close and reopen the dictionary
• Improved documentation including information on transliterating Japanese into the Latin alphabet
• Japanese font is now installed from a separate file (gothic_ttf.pdb, which is included) and can be stored to the Memory Card
• Windows Installation Wizard has been significantly modified and improved

SD/MMC standard support

• Store applications and/or databases on an extension card (SD/MMC)
• Run the application from the main memory or the extension card regardless of where the database is located

About Kana, Kanji, and Romanization:

There are two types of scripts in Japanese: Kanji (characters) and Kana (syllabary). While any text can be written in both Kanji and Kana, Kanji is used to write the roots of native Japanese words, namely of all main parts of speech - nouns, verbs, some pronouns, some adverbs and numerals. Kanji reflects the meaning of a word and Kana represents the pronunciation.

Romanization is a system for representing Japanese characters with the Roman/Latin alphabet. It is a transliteration method which can be used for many purposes: street signs for visiting foreigners; transcription of personal, company, or place names to be used in another language context; or even simply for typographic emphasis. English <-> Japanese (Romanization) dictionary is an essential tool for those who are learning the language.