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Japanese Translator Sites +
At one time or another, everyone interested in Japan needs a good translating site from time to time. While there are a lot of different Japanese translator sites to choose from, I know some of you may only rely on Google’s Language Tools or Yahoo! Babel Fish. I’m here to show you some alternatives that not only give you better translations, but will aid you in actually learning Japanese.
Excite Translator
A Japanese friend actually introduced me to this translator offered by Excite. Many Japanese tend to use this translator to translate English into Japanese. That alone makes this a really good translator for going from Japanese into English. Where there is Kanji that I have no idea what it means, I tend to put it into Excite. One thing you may notice is that it is in Japanese. Don’t let that put you off from trying this translator. The top selection (in the middle) is for English to Japanese. Select the second option for Japanese to English. I highly recommend this translator site.
Animelab Translator and Dictionary
Animelab’s Translator whole translating tools are really useful because not only does it translates Japanese into English, it gives you the Romaji as well. While the actual translation isn’t as accurate as the other services, for those of you into Romaji, it’s very useful for easily converting Kanji/Kana into Romaji. What’s also useful at Animelab is their Dictionary. You can translate English, Japanese, Romanji into anything. Also, the dictionary gives you many different options for the word. Another must bookmark.
Hiragana Gateway
When learning Japanese, I have always advocated learning Kana (Hiragana and Katakana) first. Not only will it help you down the road when you start to learn how to write and read Japanese, it doesn’t reinforce the bad habit of learning Romaji and all the different types of Romaji available. Hiragana Gateway helps you out by converting a traditional Japanese website into just Hiragana. I love this site as it allows me to start piecing together words.
Romaji Gateway
While I just said I’m not a big fan of Romaji, I have decided to include this site in here just for those that insist on going the Romaji route. Just like the Hiragana Gateway, the Romaji Gateway takes traditional Japanese and converts it into Romaji.
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June 27th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Thank you sir! This is quite handy.
June 27th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
There’s a really good resource to find professional translators English to Japanese and vice-versa, we have use them for business purposes. Language123.
Hope that helps.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
This is my favorite machine translation site. It has 9 translators all on the same page, so at least one of them usually comes up with something legible.
http://sukimania.ddo.jp/trans/trans_e.php
June 28th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Now this is a site to be proud of! Great work!
Don’t you have to know Romaji though at some point?
June 28th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Lou, it’s easy to know Romaji. It’s bad to use it in place of hiragana, katakana, and of course, kanji if you’re learning new vocabulary; you tend to remember it in romaji and that makes it more difficult to recall the readings/meanings of words when you come across them in kana or kanji.
December 25th, 2008 at 12:03 am
The anime lab’s translator is useless. I found a site that matched a book I found once and I typed what the book said meant Pain and Love into the Translator and it said
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