Comments on: Review: Kodansha Kanji Dictionary

By: mellissal

mellissal — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:49:24 +0000

i bought this dictionary many many years before i got an opportunity as a student exchange to jpn. I carry it around everywhere, back n forth…. everywhere.. good dictionary!

By: Daniel Mercier

Daniel Mercier — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:27:33 +0000

For people who find Halpern’s KALD handy and inspiring, note that there is an awesome iPod/iPhone version made by Enfour Inc. floating around iTunes (but via off & on appearances only!) Another huge surprise, as good if not better than KALD, is JISHOP ADVANCED (like a wonderful mix btw Halpern’s “Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary” & Spahn/Hadamitzky’s “The Learner’s Kanji Dictionary”). Also worth mentioning for the study of Japanese via the iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad: the VERY efficient “Juku” series (mainly Juku Kotoba, Juku Bunpou, Juku Reibun); the superlative “Japanese Sensei Deluxe”; the free “Kotoba”; the HUGE & still-promising “Japanese Flash”, and last but not least the serious “iKIC – Kanji In Context Premium”…

By: Morten

Morten — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:00:18 +0000

I've had this dictionary for a few years now. It certainly is good, but I still have to check with the back page when looking something up. That's just because I don't often look kanji up, though.

However, I do notice one disadvantage: it uses romaji rather than kana for readings. One advantage of using romaji is of course that, as is done in this book, it's possible to separate onyomi and kunyomi by capitalising and not capitalising the words. Still, there are needless to say a great number of other solutions to this, many of which allow readings to be displayed in kana.

By: Fairy Fairuz

Fairy Fairuz — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:45:34 +0000

ahhh I have this one!But I didn’t use it much, I’m pretty confused on how use it though my sensei taught me how to..sigh.I bought it on impulse.Now that you reviewed it, least I know I bought a good one!Thanks

By: jetha

jetha — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:06:41 +0000

Halpern’s dictionaries are pretty awesome, yeah. If you’ve got a Casio EX-Word with SD card support, you can actually buy it in that format!

By: zonjineko

zonjineko — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:18:42 +0000

If you click on the link in the article it will take you to the book at Amazon – thx

By: jenna

jenna — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:36:06 +0000

Where can I buy it at?

By: Tanya

Tanya — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:36:02 +0000

Thanks! This will be my next Amazon purchase!

By: dd

dd — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:14:47 +0000

that thing is in-dispensable; I’ve had it for years and have used it extensively.

By: zonjineko

zonjineko — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:43:02 +0000

Nice one – you got lucky – hope you enjoy it! ^_^