Join the revolution
Have you tried to learn Japanese and got lost when trying to read something? Have you found yourself buying a lot paper and electronic dictionaries than turn out to be totally useless?
No more worries!
Japan Goggles (developed by LucSens) is an incredible iPhone application that translates Japanese words to English from live camera, a still photo or album. This is the World’s very first real Japanese-English dictionary.
To list just some of it’s features:
- know how to read over 3,000 (most frequent 95%) Japanese characters
- has an dictionary with around 200,000 common words and 700,000 Japanese proper names
- splits the text into words that you can look up individually
- if you have Internet access, you can translate whole sentences
- keeps a list of all the words it scans so you can come back to them later or use them as flash cards
All the processing occurs on the iPhone, so you don’t need to have Internet connection. No need to know anything about the Japanese language to use it. All you have to do is hold up the phone to the text, make sure you crop whole caracters in line and Voilà!, Japan Goggles translates it immediately into English.
Now you can teach yourself Japanese Kanji!
