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peter suggested the other day that there was an add-on in firefox that let the user highlight the kanji on any web page and get the readings and meaning, etc. anyone know what add-on that is specifically?

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[1] mixiユーザー 12月04日 11:38

i found it. rikaichan! wow. what a huge help this add-on is. everyone should be using firefox with rikaichan!

[2] mixiユーザー 12月04日 15:21

Yep, it's awesome. I couldn't survive without it.

[3] mixiユーザー 12月04日 19:58

If you're not using Firefox, or you're temporarily using a computer without firefox + rikaichan, you can use the online version Rikai at

http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl

It will either do a whole webpage of japanese in the same way or you can paste in a section of text and it will convert it so you can run your mouse over it just the same as with rikaichan.

[4] mixiユーザー 02月21日 04:37

Love rikaichan but have you all found pera-pera kun.

It's just like rikaichan EXCEPT you can press the control button and it saves the kanji and the translation into a text file for reference later. I quite liked this extra feature so I could go back and revise new words.

I found it through the Firefox Addons/Extensions place.

I also just found this program yesterday called "Japanese Learning Suite" which contains a variety of kanji, kana and vocabulary tools. It seems quite useful for this sort of basic review work. I particularly liked the fact that it held the JLPT vocab lists which you could review. It's a free download from:

http://jls.phreadom.net/

See what you think.

[5] mixiユーザー 03月06日 07:52

If you use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox you can use the jbrowse plugin. You can find it here:

http://www.jbrowse.com/products/jbrowse/

[6] mixiユーザー 04月05日 11:47

Just curious but, is the jbrowse plugin as good as the Firefox plugin, rikai?

[7] mixiユーザー 04月05日 12:38

I rely on rikaichan way too much. It's become a crutch to me.

[8] mixiユーザー 04月06日 17:30

Apart from RIKAICHAN, there's also japanese-english dictionary for Mac called JEDict which doubles as a browser. It's shareware ($25) but the free version has no time limitation and comes with EDICT. Once you've registered you can add new dictionaries like EIJIRO (which I use on my Palm).

JEDict lets you surf the web and displays in a sliding window the readings and meanings of any word you highlight on a japanese web-page. It also acts as an offline dictionary, JLPT review tool, etc...

The older version of JEDict had a contextual menu feature instead of direct web-surfing. I like the new version better and now favor using it over Rikaichan.

[10] mixiユーザー 04月07日 20:49

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Many thanks for this information! I had JEDict, but I didn't know you could use it as a browser, duh!! This is great. However, as Dusty said, these things can be crutches!! Hmm, I wonder . . . .

[12] mixiユーザー 04月08日 05:25

I agree with Cielo entirely. As long as it isn't the only way you deal with kanji, there's no problem.

If you shun tools like peraperakun and rikaichan, you are resigning yourself to the equivalent of "Janet and John" books or "Cat in the Hat". It could take you years to be proficient enough to read a simple web page or respond to an e-mail from a Mixi friend. In fact, Mixi could easily be beyond you.

If you look at it as a way of getting at ideas and vocabulary that will stretch you then Cielo has hit the nail on the head "it can be a helpful learning tool".

I use peraperakun because it allows you to save the kanji as you find them with the translation and hiragana so you can then do a review later on.

It pays not to be to 'precious' about language learning - take it where can get it!

[14] mixiユーザー 04月08日 13:46

hi hi
sorry, but Pera-Pera-kun is the a "modded version" of Rikaicha?

what makes it better than??

[15] mixiユーザー 04月08日 17:19

The 'step-up' from Rikaichan is that you can press the Ctrl key and it saves the kanji, hiragana and translation into a text file so you can review it later.

I don't think they've added that to Rikaichan yet.

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