Canon Wordtank C50

(Price includes shipping within Japan. For addresses outside of Japan, see below for shipping costs.)

I'm a big fan of this dictionary. The Canon Wordtank C50 is a powerful yet compact (pocket-sized) Japanese-English dictionary. I bought one for myself, even though I already had the G55 as well, because its size makes it easy to take it wherever I go. The C50 is truly small enough to take anywhere in a jacket pocket or purse, without being so small that the keyboard becomes awkward to operate (I have large hands.) It fits nicely in the pockets of my cargo pants, and it even includes a lanyard you can wrap around your hand so you don't drop it when on the go.

Functionality is similar to the G50. Menus can be toggled from Japanese to English, and they've added a thumb-size joystick-type control on the left-side, in addition to the cursor control on the right-side, which allows menu manipulation with either hand (pushing the thumb knob functions like the enter button).

The C50 unfortunately lacks the animated kanji stroke diagrams of the G50 and G55, but includes travel phrase dictionaries in English, Italian, French, Korean, Spanish, and German. You can search look up individual words and search the example phrases for words and all the travel dictionaries display the result in BOTH the foreign language (Italian, German, etc.) AND English. The nice thing about owning this is that as your Japanese improves, you'll be able to use the travel dictionaries for other languages. While limited, they do include lots of useful phrases. Searching for KAU (buy) in the Italian travel dictionary provides a list of 18 phrases with BUY, such as "kippu wa doko de kaemasuka" and the English and Italian, respectively: "Where can I buy a ticket?" and "Dove potrei comprare il biglietto?" The foreign langauge phrases are shown with katakana as a pronunciation guide.

17 Dictionaries Included:

• Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 80,000 entires
• The Concise Oxford Thesaurus (2nd ed.) - 365,000
• Oxford Collocations Dictionary for students of English - 9,000
• Comprehensive Dictionary of Colloquial English - 23,000 entires
• Genius English-Japanese Dictionary - 95,000 entries
• Genius Japanese-English Dictionary - 82,000 entries
• Dictionary of English Word Images - 3,000 entries
• Dictionary of Daily English Conversation - 8,000 entries
• Super Daijirin Dictionary (J-J) - 250,000 entries
• Kanjigen (Kanji Dictionary) - 6,355 entries
• Dictionary of Katakana - 16,000 entries
• Travel Phrase Dictionary (English) - 2,300 entries
• Travel Phrase Dictionary (Italian & English) - 2,500 entries
• Travel Phrase Dictionary (French & English) - 2,500 entries
• Travel Phrase Dictionary (Korean & English) - 2,500 entries
• Travel Phrase Dictionary (Spanish & English) - 2,500 entries
• Travel Phrase Dictionary (Greman & English) - 2,500 entries

Features:

• Multiple dictionary search
• Magnification key
• Save WordMemo entries for flashcard style drills.
• English phrase search feature
• Wildcard entry for both '?' and '*'
• Jump key allows quick jumping between all dictionaries.
• English spell check function

Large history function and more!

Uses 2 AAA batteries for 70 hours of battery life.

Size: 120mm x 75mm x 21mm

Weight: 166 grams

Please note:
knowing Hiragana is prerequisite to use any of the electronic dictionaries we are selling. If you don't already know hiragana, please consider purchasing our set of "Kana Flashcards" along with this product. There are about 46 kana characters, so if you learn 5 or 10 per day, you can learn hiragana in about a week.

Keep in mind:
When you look up a word from English to Japanese, the results come back written in Japanese (kanji, hiragana and katakana). Using the jump function you can quickly find what you are looking for, but it may pose an initial challenge (especially to beginners.)

Shipping Costs:
This dictionary ships globally by EMS (Express Mail Service) with tracking and insurance for a flat-rate shipping fee of $6.00. EMS shipments usually arrive in about 3 to 6 business days.

Inside Japan this item ships for free and usually arrives in one business day.