Purpose: Help students to learn Japanese.

Database: Data for the databases are collected from the famous EDICT file. For latest version of the file and a lot of useful software, files etc, visit;  http://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/00INDEX.html. This is a very, very good site!

This software is free to use and redistribute but can not be sold.

Questions? Mail: suport@euroasiasoftware.com or visit our homepage at:

http://www.euroasiasoftware.com

How to use the software?

If you have installed all necessary files you can start the software. If you have any problems, mail us! One known problem is the forms2.0 OCX file. If you have an error or can’t see the Japanese characters properly, download the file form our server.

From the main page you can choose to go to other pages or start searching for translations.

To translate from English to Japanese you type in an English word in the textbox on top of the buttons. Press Enter or the button ”Find first”. As default, you search for exact matching. You can by clicking on the radio button change to search for the word with wildcards. (If you search for “car” you will also have words like “Camera” , “care”, “mascara” etc.)

If you press “ Find next” you will find the next match for each click you make until there are no more.

The “Select all” option takes a while since the database is rather large but will present all matches for your word. (with wildcards or without).

If you think that the voice is to fast or to slow, adjust the speed with the slider. The settings will be saved.

To listen to the pronunciation again you can click the girl or the button “Talk again”.

From the menu there is selections to change the font, turn off the sound etc.

-	View radicals: All the radicals in a picture. With meanings and numbers. Click on a radical to go to the kanji page and view all kanji with that radical. Your radical number will be automatically entered on the page so you can go on and search for other characters with that radical. Look in the lower right corner on the kanji page.

-	Strokes, radicals etc. This is the page for looking up kanji. You can search on kanji based on the English translation, number of strokes or radical. With sound. To listen to the pronunciation you simply click on the label ( “Kun reading”, “Okurigana”, or “On reading”.

-	Lookup gives you a change to lookup characters from Internet or any other source. Mark a character or a word or sentence and copy it ( “Ctrl” button and “C”). If the auto lookup function is turned on you will have the translation directly. This do only work with Microsoft’s IME system!!! If you have you browser or any other application set to automatically show Japanese characters, this will work. If not, download it from Microsoft, it is FREE! Use the UPDATE function in Internet Explorer or Microsoft Windows to download it. It will also give you a free Japanese text editor and Japanese font.  You can choose to search on exact matching or with wildcards here too.

-	“Read it” is for you to listen to Japanese texts. Take any Japanese text coded with Microsoft’s IME (Could be E-mail,  Internet pages or Word etc) and copy it into this page and listen to the girl read it for you. If you have word 2000 you can open any Japanese text and have it translated into IME.

This is just a first beta version of the software. We know that there is a lot to be done with the software end we will work with it whenever we have time. Updates will be available at our homepage. http://www.euroasiasoftware.com

Best regards,

EuroAsiaSoftware,

Gothenburg 2000-01-01-01, Mathias Johansson