{"id":254,"date":"2003-11-14T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T16:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/11\/14\/japanese-english-electronic-dictionari"},"modified":"2006-12-15T23:12:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T04:12:16","slug":"japanese-english-electronic-dictionaries-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/11\/14\/japanese-english-electronic-dictionaries-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese  English Electronic Dictionaries Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a189'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a student of Japanese at some point you&#8217;ve probably come across the need for a dictionary.   In Japan, Electronic dictionaries are very very very popular.  They&#8217;re small, light, have amazing battery life (none of this hours nonsense.   Let&#8217;s talk about months!), and depending on the model have excellent dictionaries\/thesaurus&#8217; included in them.  This is all in about the size of something a little bit bigger than a Palm Pilot and usually much more durable (I&#8217;ve dropped a few quite a few times and they keep going).  And the prices aren&#8217;t too bad.  The range from real cheap ($50) to hundreds of dollars.   However, shopping for one can be really confusing if you&#8217;re at the store.<br \/>\nThere is literally a whole isle full of these things (I&#8217;ll have a pic in the future) with the whole price range and far too little information on what the differences are (unless you can read Japanese and even then it&#8217;s not easy to find all the relevant information). <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bornplaydie.com\/japan\/dictionary\/dictionary.htm\">This site<\/a> that I found has a really wonderful breakdown of what to look for in an Electronic dictionary.   If chosen well it can be a really powerful tool for the Japanese learner.   If chosen poorly it will be just another paperweight to add to your desk.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bornplaydie.com\/japan\/dictionary\/dictionary.htm\">Link to Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a student of Japanese at some point you&#8217;ve probably come across the need for a dictionary. In Japan, Electronic dictionaries are very very very popular. They&#8217;re small, light, have amazing battery life (none of this hours nonsense. Let&#8217;s talk about months!), and depending on the model have excellent dictionaries\/thesaurus&#8217; included in them. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}