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Title: NTC's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Jack Halpern, National Textbook Company ISBN: 0-8442-8434-3 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy to use reference for the new and experienced
Comment: This book uses the same style as the Japanese use to look up unknown kanji. You do not play the matching games like most other Japanese dictionaries. I recommend this book to any who are learning Japanese or anyone who is looking for a more pratical dictionary to place on their shelves
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding - A Great Learning Tool
Comment: I couldn't have learned the Kanji I learned without this book. Not only is it an outstanding dictionary, it's a great learning tool and amazing for reviewing. I think you should also own the Classic Nelson, only because it has far more compounds, but trust me, you'll want this too, as I've used it far more than Nelson. I would recommend this to any student of Japanese.
Rating: 5
Summary: What it is, and what it isn't.
Comment: Look, I know it is a lot of money for some people. You can buy smaller hand held things for $$, or download EDICT for free. But if for no other reason, perhaps exposure to the SKIP system for looking up kanji is worth it. Radical indexes are fine for experienced users and not that hard for beginners either. But this is easier until you have memorized the 217 radicals.
Using this sytem, anyone can recognize the pattern, count the strokes, and find the reference page in this wonderful guide of over 3500 Kanji (with their compounds and common usages). If you aren't sure you can count strokes (?) there is a radical index in the appendix, as well as a "pattern index" sort of like a short version of the whole dictionary that makes finding "hard to count" (usually because the kanji is so small you can't see it) kanji easy to find too.
There are other great Appendices are great too. In addition to radical index, you have: a Synonym group table (useful for discriminating between similar meaning kanji but not really as an English look up); a joyo list (which organizes by which grade the kanji are taught); an On-KUN index (used if you know how to pronounce it but not how to write it); a description of the three principle romanization systems (hepburn, Nippon, and Kunrei) and their differences; and topics that a beginner and expert might find useful or interseting.
This one dictionary has everything I have ever needed except:
1. some indications of the "accent" system in Japanese
2. an English -> Japanese look up system for the compounds listed
3. exactly 1 kanji that I couldn't find in it: "Uso" (Lie)
Finally, this is a dictionary and not a grammar manual. It is definitely not a resource to begin learning the language. But for what ever it is not, it _is_ worth the price.
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Title: The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary by Jack Halpern ISBN: 4770028555 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words by Naoko Chino ISBN: 4770027818 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English English-Japanese by Kodansha ISBN: 4770024800 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You by Jay Rubin ISBN: 4770028024 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary by Seigo Nakao ISBN: 0679780017 Publisher: Random House Reference & Pub. Date: 07 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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