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 Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:52 am
I saw this on www.genkijapan.net and was interrested. I looked around and most places said good things about it, but is it really that useful for a semi-beginner? Sure it could be the most impressive peice of equipment but I want to know if people use it alot and if it tremendouly helped them in learning Japanese. (seeing as they costs $200+)
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:01 am
The WordTank (like any other E-dictionary), is there to be on hand, when you hear a word you don't quite get. While I haven't had the chance to use one myself (no money yet), I'm sure it will be quite indisensable to you, in your travels around Japan.
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:04 am
If you are going to go all out on a Canon Wordtank, get one with the kanji stylus input. I use the Canon v80 Wordtank and it totally kicks a** for English, Chinese, and just about everything else. The v90 is the newest cream of the crop dictionary and the kanji input is greatly improved.
I should mention that, unless you know proper stroke order for each kanji, the input will be rather useless, so don't buy it unless you have several years of kanji under your belt
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:32 am
they are very helpful mostly because they're so portable, and ones like the wordtank g55 or v80 have more information that most foreigners could ever hope to need. I don't recommend them for absolute beginners just because there's so much information that you need some knowledge to know what's what, and I also don't think you should depend on them to learn kanji too much, like bakahito said, you need a good understanding of kanji before you can even use the kanji function.
I say if you're trying to find words that aren't in your print dictionary, it's time to start considering a denshi jisho.
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