Just came across this today. It's for Black Friday but it doesn't mention when specifically it will expire.
The description says it will go back up to $9.99.
Great for those learning Japanese! And completely offline too.
App description:
This Japanese/English dictionary is going to become your best friend. Contains more than 174,500 entries and 52,000 examples, as well as stroke order animations for kanji and kana. It works completely offline, an internet connection is NOT required.
xD
Hopefully it might help me next time I take a trip to Japan!
Funny story time:
I went into a bread shop one morning and upon buying some red bean buns I went to the cashier to pay.
She then asked me something (to which I didn't understand of course) and I just nodded my head and said "Yes".
30 seconds later my Japanese buddy walks in wondering why I'm taking so long and asks the cashier what's the problem. He then explains to me that the cashier asked if I wanted to eat in or take away..
Not my finest moment.
similar thing happened to me at a lawson's two months ago…
i was buying my daily 6 pack of asahi/suntory beer and some stores require you to press on the touchscreen confirming that you are of age to buy the alcohol. i had no idea at the time that i needed to do this (because not all stores require it). i actually thought the store clerk was asking me if i had smaller change (as i was paying with a large note for something that was close to only AU$5).
so there i was for a good 5 minutes making exaggerated wallet searching and pocket searching motions and trying to explain in english that that was all the money i had before someone behind me reached over and gently pressed a button on the touchscreen display.
My first attempt at foreign language travel was similarly confusing. Fresh off the plane in my first non-English country (Spain), I made a phone call from the airport to a hostel somewhere in the city, with my shiny new Lonely Planet book in hand. I slowly asked what the book said, speaking slowly and hoping they'd be able to understand my massacre of the Spanish language.
The hostel person sounded confused, so I repeated the query. They were still confused. I tried a third time, and still no luck, so I hung up. I ended up randomly finding a hostel in the end, and it was only two days later once the jetlag fog had lifted from my brain that I realised the LP book gave multiple options within the sentence "Do you have a single/double room for today/tomorrow?". Uh-oh…
I'd been stupidly asking every word in the sentence. Since I'd just focused on the Spanish translation I thought the forward slashes were some weird foreign punctuation but I'd really been asking for two sorts of rooms for now and in the future. * facepalm *
maybe it was just me but it was just kenji and random characters floating on the screen rather than giving me vocab etc to memorise for the trip. i definitely wouldnt neg OP but i didnt find this app all that useful when it was last offered on ozb.
i think this app is for those that genuinely want to learn formal/written japanese opposed to those going for a quick ski trip etc.. either way guys, it's free so just download it :D
LOL, that's the main screen, this is a dictionary app, I paid the 10.00 and it has been great. You can search by typing, drawing kanji or finding the radicals. It's awesome.
is that all it is? no kanji flashcards or anything like that?
fantsatic app. i paid full price. get it while you can.
Thanks OP, may help juniors LOTE at school next year.
Thank you, OP :)
This is the best offline dictionary I've ever used, and I paid full price for it about 3 years ago!
ありがとう
日本語を勉強、頑張ります
Didn't know ozbargain was full of weeaboos
このａｐｐは確かにいいものですが、使ってすぐ旅行とかに役に立つと思いません。元々このａｐｐはシステム的に日本語を勉強するために作ったものですから。
Whateva
Browsing ozbargain at the airport whilst waiting for my flight to japan and this pops up. Good timing!
Have a fun and safe trip!
Nabbed this app for free when it first came out. Had helped me greatly on my exchange to Japan 4 years ago - and to this day I still use this app fairly frequently! Definitely download it.
Damn, anything like this free for Android?
JED dictionary (free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.umibouzu.j…
Obenkyo (learning app) (also free). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Obenkyo&hl…
And if you're willing to pay you can try Human Japanese and JA Sensei.
IMI - japanese dictionary
Expired. This is what i get for not checking Ozbargain morning and night
This is hands down the best J-E/E-J dictionary app on iOS. I use it on a daily basis on both iPad and iPhone. Paid full price some time ago and would happily pay $30+ for this app without hesitation.
The handwriting recognition was improved hugely in an update this year (maybe last year?), which was just a bonus. The example sentences are what make this app outstanding. It has a huge number of them of varying complexity. You can also search words using any conjugation, and all conjugations are listed. It has JLPT word lists, if that's useful for you.
Just a bloody good dictionary and really well designed app.
it won't download…