Online Dictionaries

by Matthew

When you have a lame work computer (like me) and you can’t jack it up for Japanese like I talked about in the post about Rikai-chan and Perapera-kun, then there are some handy online dictionaries you might want to know about.
Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC is one place to start. It is not particularly usable nor intuitive [...]

Using Japanese on your Computer

by Matthew

Reading Japanese online if a piece of weasels when you set yourself up for it. If you don’t already know about these tools then you better get savvy! Both work the same: you hover over the nasty characters in question and a handy little translation with reading and definition pops up as a tool tip.
The [...]