The Advanced Japanese English Dictionary 2014 is a comprehensive dictionary for the Kindle Touch and Paperwhite, designed to look up Japanese words and find their translations in English. It contains 429,500 translations. With this dictionary, all English speakers are able to easily read Japanese books on a Kindle without leaving them in order to find translations for Japanese vocabulary. The dictionary is also a very useful tool for Japanese speakers. They can actively learn English vocabulary by tapping any Japanese word.
Before you make a conclusive decision about this dictionary, please read the sections Installation which shows the dictionary compatibility and How to use that provides you with some general information on how the dictionary is structured and how to use it.

Installation
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This dictionary can be used with the Kindle Touch, Kindle Paperwhite, iPad and Ipod Kindle Apps. Unfortunately it will not function with the Kindle Fire, on a PC or Android Apps. Amazon is working on the Kindle software which will
fix these problems. Follow the instructions below to install the dictionary

Kindle Touch:
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Home ->
Menu ->
Settings ->
Dictionaries ->
日本語 ->
Advanced Japanese-English dictionary 2014 babelpoint


Kindle Paperwhite:
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Home ->
Menu ->
Settings ->
Device Options ->
Language and Dictionaries ->
Dictionaries ->
日本語 ->
Advanced Japanese-English dictionary 2014 - babelpoint

iPad / iPod:
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Click the (i) button and choose the dictionary

Further devices:
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Unfortunately Amazon has not updated the Kindle software for computers, android devices, Windows phones and Kindle Fire. Do not buy the dictionary if you intend to use it on these devices.



How to use it
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This dictionary offers a wide range of features that cannot be found anywhere else. It offers you a lot more than just translations. Here is a list of features you will find in this dictionary:

Easy navigation of the dictionary via the Go to menu on Kindle devices.
Recognition of Japanese word forms.
Tagging of Japanese entries according to the Jim Breen's dictionary.
Tagging of English entries.
IPA transliteration for thousands of English entries.
List of Japanese priority words marked by (P). This helps you recognise the key words of the Japanese language.
Clear indication of Japanese readings for words with multiple pronunciations.
Indication on number of translations if there are more than 5 of them.
Indication of how many meanings a word has.

Tips for better results:
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The dictionary understands the morphology of the Japanese language. This means that it can recognise Japanese word forms. Depending on the portion of the words that you mark, different results will be displayed. It is important that you understand the way how the dictionary takes in consideration the different parts of speech, specially for adjectives and verbs which have many different forms. Follow the recommendations below:

Stylus pen:
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Use a stylus pen to make sure that you can properly mark multiple Japanese characters. The lack of space in Japanese sentences make it difficult to mark the words.

Although you can use your finger, it is much easier to use a stylus pen. You can buy a stylus pen from any amazon website.