Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries?

srothroc asks: "I've been interested in finding one of these, but I'm not too sure where to start looking. I've been around the block talking to students and my professor - most people either don't need one for some reason or the other or only use paper dictionaries. Online searches have been fruitless as well, so I turn to you, Slashdot. The ideal dictionary would be able to take hiragana/katakana input and give output in English, hiragana, katakana, and/or kanji. A lot of the ones that I've seen take English (romaji) input and spit out the same - not something I'd need. I would prefer options that wouldn't bust my wallet, as Christmas season is coming around. Any ideas, folks?"

My advice...

[GuyMannDude]

... is to forget about the gizmos and just take a crash course in learning the language. But taking a class can be expensive and boring. That's why you want to spend time watching hentai instead. Most of them have handy subtitles on the screen so you can match the words with what's being said. You'll learn all sorts of handy Japanese phrases that will help you in everyday life such as:

• "I want to have sex!"
• "So good! So good!"
• "Hey, get that tentacle out of there!"

and so on. Trust me, a few hours spent boning-up, I mean, studying-up on the Japanese language using these video materials and you'll impress everyone you meet!

Hope this helps,
GMD

Re:Get a Zaurus SL-C760

[sakusha]

I suggest you take this up with my language instructor. She's from Hokkaido and has a PhD in linguistics. She made us scratch out every incidence of "jiten" in our textbooks and replace it with "jisho," explaining it was archaic usage. I'll take her word over yours.