Yandex has been reported as being more accurate than Google Translate. Like Jisho, you can record your voice to search and Google Translate provides a public API so you can use it in your development. Uniquely, Google offers the ability to take pictures with your phone to retrieve a quick image translation (great for reading sushi menus!). Probably the most convenient tool for quick lookups and the browser extension is always handy. Yes, Google Translate is often horrendously inaccurate, but they’ve made serious progress over the years and it is getting better (for Japanese and all languages). This one’s way too obvious but I need to include it.
Platform: Web, Android and browser extension
It’s quite simple in what it reports (not overly detailed) but it includes audio, and if you sign up to the course, you can save words too. You can even access a public version of this Japanese dictionary. This one is actually a Japanese course (mentioned above) but it includes a built-in Japanese dictionary. If nothing else on this list, save Jisho (it’s free to use). This means you could literally see a sign in Japanese, scribble it into Jisho, and get a translation.Īn enormous amount of work has gone into the search functionality, allowing you to perform very precise queries, mixed languages, JLPT-specific terms and a complex hashtag system. Unlike other Japanese translators and dictionaries, Jisho allows you to actually draw your search query or record your voice. In my opinion, this is the single most comprehensive and frankly essential tool on this list. I’ll start with my favorite English to Japanese tool: Jisho. Translation is always prone to inaccuracy, especially when it’s done by a computer so never trust them 100% without checking first (compare their results). Some of them go into great detail and provide a lot of useful information about the word, collocation or phrase you’re looking up, whereas some are quite simple and only useful as a quick reference. Here you’ll find my list of top English to Japanese translators and dictionaries. Best English to Japanese/Japanese to English translators
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