Friday, January 20, 2012

I need a good English to Japanese translator app for iPod touch?

Since the iPod touch DOES NOT HAVE A MICROPHONE, I need an app that you can type in what you want to be translated from English to Japanese, and then actually translate it in audio as well as in text. Anyone know any good apps like this?





Thanks.|||If you are only translating single words there is a really good app called Kotoba! It is an English/ Japanese dictionary. You can type in the word you want to look up (In English or Japanese romaji)





And, if you use the earbuds that your ipod came with, there is a microphone attached.|||I use "Kotoba!" and "iDict". These are both free, but I don't think either of them can talk the phrase out to you. I think it will be hard to find one which does, because the kanji can be said in different ways, and most of the time, things are pronounced differently. たとえば、 を と は と ます。These are all pronounced differently (masu, drop the 'u') in circumstances. However, in Kotoba!, you can look up a word, then look at the examples for it. The examples are in japanese characters, romanji, then english. Sometimes, is also has french, or spanish, too.





Example:





こんにちは、ミミさん!どう、 元気?


konnichiha, MIMIdan! dou, genki?


Hi, Mimi! How are you doing?





So it's really helpfull.

1 comment:

  1. Great Topic…What I know “Kotoba” is a friendly Japanese Dictionary and “iDict” has spread the market with a good communication between the English and Spanish. Truly the world has become a small place where such applications have made us to move further in a smooth path.
    Japan Translate App

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