Takoboto Reviews and details

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• Anyone got some good recommendations for a pocket-sized [offline!] J-E dictionary?

  Here's the website version of it: Takoboto.jp. Source: 7 months ago

• I finished the NihongoShark Kanji Deck. What now?

  In November 2022 I started seriously learning Kanji with the NihongoShark.com Deck in Anki and finished it in August. I plan to keep reviewing the cards for long as I can, but it's becoming tedious and I feel my retention is getting worse. Specially when I miss one day it's so bothering to catch up.I added vocabulary and example phrases from Kanji Koohii to the cards, but most of these phrases are very advanced so... Source: 7 months ago

• Is the Japanese accurate?

  I personally use Takoboto for my dictionary, but sites like jisho.org are perfectly fine as well (Since I'm on mobile a lot, the Takoboto app works really well for me). Source: 10 months ago

• Wha's the Japanese translation for "Strangers and exiles"?

  I think there are subs dedicated to translation help. Here's an online dictionary I like: Takoboto. You'll want to put the character と between the two words, which should be nouns. In this dictionary, there are also example phrases for a lot of words, so I'd look at those to make sure it's the right meaning for each word. Look up each word individually. Source: 12 months ago

• [English > Japanese] Help with kanji?

  Try dictionary like takoboto -> https://takoboto.jp/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Recommended Dictionaries and Books

  If you're looking for a dictionary to use on your phone or computer, I like Takoboto. If you're looking for dictionaries on paper, I wrote this comment a while ago that goes over some good ones. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to create link to Japanese Dictionnary (takoboto) ?

  Anyway. So you have a URL, once you urldecode it, which is https://takoboto.jp/?w=1582710. So far, so good; that loads a page with the word 日本 in the browser. But what you want to do is the reverse, that is start with 日本 and get to 1582710, right? Source: almost 2 years ago

• How realistic is it to learn Japanese to participate in manga scanlations?

  All you really need is something to read, a dictionary (like takoboto.jp or jisho.org) and the time and patience to stick with it. Remember: Japanese isn't hard, it's just different enough that you'll need to throw all of your english speaking assumptions out before starting, and large enough that it will take a while to get a decent grasp on it. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is there a better dictionary to search up words than Jisho, specifically the word discovery part of it.

  My secondary dictionary is Takoboto, I dunno if it's what you're looking for, but it has word and grammar lists built in. Source: about 2 years ago

• DeepL - Possibly the best Japanese translation App

  Same, it gave me better results than Google translate. I still use Google Translate at times, mostly out of habit. Two more sites that I found to be ok for now are Takoboto and ReversoContext. Source: over 2 years ago

• several translations for the word “correction” are having me confused

  Takoboto literally uses the same data as jisho at least according to their site. Source: over 2 years ago

• Help with Karate terminologies

  You can copy and paste the kanji or hiragana into a dictionary like takoboto.jp. Source: over 2 years ago

• How do you train yourself to perceive Pitch Accent.

  This can be supplemented with a dictionary that has pitch when you're unsure or your listening recognition is still shaky. Such as https://takoboto.jp/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Symbols used in a Japanese dictionary

  It sounds like it is just pitch accent; if you erased all the unnecessary parts of the "snakes" in that image you'd have something identical to what you're describing. Why don't you cross-reference your dictionary with another one? i.e, look up 「橋」in your dictionary and on a site like takoboto.jp, and if the "snake" on takoboto matches the "diacritics" in your dictionary then they almost certainly do indicate pitch. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Those of you Pakistanis who learned a foreign language, which one did you learn and how?

  Physical copies? I have no idea. I use jisho.org, takoboto.jp, and thesaurus.weblio.jp. Looking up kanji in the dictionary is a little difficult if you don't know the reading, but you can use radical search to make it easier. That means you select the radicals that make up a complicated kanji to look up a word in the dictionary. Source: almost 3 years ago