Aug. 23, 2025
An Electronic Dictionary: A Formidable Ally 電子辞書は友達
They might think electronic dictionaries are only for high school students, but as an English learner, I use mine ardently.
I started using it again because the online dictionary I had relied on began bombarding me with ads, which slowed me down and irritated me. Eventually, I gave up and looked for another option. That’s when I remembered I still had an electronic dictionary I hadn’t touched for years. I wasn’t sure if it would work, but after replacing the batteries, it turned out to be perfectly fine.
It’s been a great tool for quickly checking meanings and pronunciations, and it even provides plenty of example sentences. Another feature I love is that it keeps a record of the words I’ve looked up.
There was also an unexpected bonus: it includes a Japanese dictionary. Even though I’m a native Japanese speaker, there are words I know but can’t explain clearly, or kanji I recognize but can’t write, such as “傀儡 (puppet)” and “灌漑 (irrigation).”
I’m glad that a tool I had forgotten about is now back in use. For language learners, a user-friendly dictionary is truly a formidable ally
電子辞書は高校生が使うものという思われているかもしれないが、英語学習者の私は電子辞書を愛用している。
電子辞書を使い始めたのは、それまで使っていたオンライン辞書が頻繁に広告を差し込み始めたせいだ。調べるのに手間がかかり、イライラした。非常に使いづらくて、別の方法を探していたとき、電子辞書を持っていることに気づいた。何年も放置していたものだが、電池を入れ替えたらすぐに使えた。単語の意味や発音をさっと調べたいときにピッタリだし、用例も豊富でとてもよかった。以前調べた単語の記録が残るのもいい。さらに、期待していなかった良さもあった。それは、電子辞書には日本語の辞書も入っているため、日本語の意味や漢字を調べられることだ。私は日本語のネイティブだが、「傀儡」や「灌漑」など、知っているけれどもうまく説明できない言葉や漢字で書けない言葉もある。もう何年も使ってなかった道具がこうして活躍するようになってうれしい。言語学習者にとって使いやすい辞書は強い味方だ。
An Electronic Dictionary: A Formidable Ally 電子辞書は友達
TheyPeople might think electronic dictionaries are only for high school students, but as an English learner, I use mine ardently.
I started using it again because the online dictionary I had relied on began bombarding me with ads, which slowed me down and irritated me.
Eventually, I gave up and looked for another option.
That’s when I remembered I still had an electronic dictionary I hadn’t touched for years.
I wasn’t sure if it would work, but after replacing the batteries, it turned out to be perfectly fine.
It’s been a great tool for quickly checking meanings and pronunciations, and it even provides plenty of example sentences.
Another feature I love is that it keeps a record of the words I’ve looked up.
There was also an unexpected bonus: it includes a Japanese dictionary.
Even though I’m a native Japanese speaker, there are words I know but can’t explain clearly, or kanji I recognize but can’t write, such as “傀儡 (puppet)” and “灌漑 (irrigation).” I’m glad that a tool I had forgotten about is now back in use.
For language learners, a user-friendly dictionary is truly a formidable ally
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I have a physical Japanese dictionary that I have taken camping and an app that works offline for Japanese. Depending on where you read and what you read, there are some plugins for the web that allow you to load electronic dictionaries. So a page with Japanese text, if you hover over the word or kanji while holding shift, it will immediately pop up with loaded electronic dictionaries (for whatever languages you have loaded). Obviously I'm using JP -> EN but there are EN -> JP as well as other languages. The plugin is called Yomitan and works with chromium browsers (most of them). Once you load the plugin, then you load any dictionaries you want to use. You can customize this quite a bit. Yomitan works offline if you are using a reader like ttsu and offline files. Apologies if you already knew about this resource. I know a lot of Japanese learners love it, but I don't know of any English learners really using it.
Aug. 24, 2025
Thank you! I had never heard of Yomitan before. I tried this plugin this morning, and after about 30 minutes of struggle, I finally got it to work! It works really well. It looks very useful for checking web news.
TheyPeople might think electronic dictionaries are only for high school students, but as an English learner, I use mine ardently.
I started using it again because the online dictionary I had reliedbeen relying on began bombarding me with ads, which slowed me down and irritated me.
Eventually, I gave up and looked for another option.
That’s when I remembered I still had an electronic dictionary I hadn’t touched for years.
I wasn’t sure if it would work, but after replacing the batteries, it turned out to be perfectly fine.
It’s been a great tool for quickly checking meanings and pronunciations, and it even provides plenty of example sentences.
Another feature I love is that it keeps a record of the words I’ve looked up.
There was also an unexpected bonus: it includes a Japanese dictionary.
Even though I’m a native Japanese speaker, there are words I know but can’t explain clearly, or kanji I recognize but can’t write, such as “傀儡" (puppet)” and “灌漑" (irrigation).”
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I’m glad that a tool I had forgotten about is now back in use.
For language learners, a user-friendly dictionary is truly a formidable ally
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Really excellent English!
Aug. 24, 2025
Thank you!
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They might think electronic dictionaries are only for high school students, but as an English learner, I use mine ardently.
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I started using it again because the online dictionary I had relied on began bombarding me with ads, which slowed me down and irritated me. I started using it again because the online dictionary I had This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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That’s when I remembered I still had an electronic dictionary I hadn’t touched for years. This sentence has been marked as perfect! This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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I wasn’t sure if it would work, but after replacing the batteries, it turned out to be perfectly fine. This sentence has been marked as perfect! This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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It’s been a great tool for quickly checking meanings and pronunciations, and it even provides plenty of example sentences. This sentence has been marked as perfect! This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Another feature I love is that it keeps a record of the words I’ve looked up. This sentence has been marked as perfect! This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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There was also an unexpected bonus: it includes a Japanese dictionary. This sentence has been marked as perfect! This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Even though I’m a native Japanese speaker, there are words I know but can’t explain clearly, or kanji I recognize but can’t write, such as “傀儡 (puppet)” and “灌漑 (irrigation).” I’m glad that a tool I had forgotten about is now back in use. Even though I’m a native Japanese speaker, there are words I know but can’t explain clearly, or kanji I recognize but can’t write, such as “傀儡" (puppet) This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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For language learners, a user-friendly dictionary is truly a formidable ally This sentence has been marked as perfect! This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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