English -> Romaji translator...

[Jr-]

I was just curious... does anyone know of a good English to Romanji translator?

[TwistedMac]

nope... I don't think there is one... (and it's "romaji")

[Jr-]

oops... spelling (sorry)

I found one "kind of" like what I'm looking for http://www.trussel.com/f_nih.htm. But it always comes up with too much information or errors out.

[Lina Inverse]

I was just curious... does anyone know of a good English to Romanji translator?
Yes, there is one right here:
wwwjdic (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html) (Monash University)
Most times you have the option to have romaji as input/output.

[puKKa]

http://www.solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/dict is good if you want romaji othwise is wwwjdic good as Lina Inverse wrote.

[PaulTB]

Yes, there is one right here:
wwwjdic (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html) (Monash University)
Most times you have the option to have romaji as input/output.
As input yes. As output no. (Although some of the dictionaries that use WWWJDIC as a back end might do romaji conversion).

[ArdenD]

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi-inon

uses Jim Breen's interface and dictionary as a base, and allows Romaji output as an option (Jim Breen disabled it on his site because he wants people to learn Kana/Kanji ;) )

[drow]

...WaKan (http://wakan.manga.cz/)...

[tha_rippa1be]

or just use the one of this site :souka:

htp://jref.com
at the top

or this one is a really good one:
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html

[PaulTB]

or this one is a really good one:
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html
I really don't recommend it. It's obviously using an old version of EDICT - I don't know how old, possibly even the 1997 EDICT-R that Jim officially withdrew.

See what it was like for the first word I tried.
E -> J 'school'
First entry : (English) a school (Japanese) ippa :okashii:
Now the 'ippa' entry in the current EDICT is ...
一派 【いっぱ】 (n) school; sect; party; (P)

The Jref one is much better (it appears to use WWWJDIC, if via a rather different front-end)

[willuknight]

Here you go, this is the one you're looking for :D

its excellent.


http://kanjidict.stc.cx/dict

[husslar_65]

:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:(What I think you guys should do is post links to TRANSLATORS and not dictionaries that don't really give any help at all. So please post out links to TRANSLATORS not DICTIONARIES!!!

[Glenn]

Translators cost money, unless you're talking about the machine translators, but those are pretty awful at getting anything mildly beyond simple right. Besides, if someone's learning the language, they're better off knowing how to look up the words on their own, not having other people what things mean all the time.

Besides, what's the point in digging up a 5-year-old thread to chastise people who don't even post here anymore?