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JLT on Axim is superb
Submitted by James Barrett on 08/Apr/2010
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I've been using Peter's language tools on a Dell Axim for 6 months now, and it's very easy to sum up my experience with it: Fabulous.
You get a pretty good idea how it works from reading the website, but what you can't quite tell is how easy it is to use and how helpful it is overall.
I'm just finishing my first year of University-level Japanese, and the Axim has saved me a of time and made the entire process more enjoyable.
I can look things up very quickly and go from an entry for a given word in EDict to the relevant entry/entries in the Kanji dictionary.
Also, I find the touchscreen entry with stylus a great way to practice kanji. The recognition software is so good that variations in handwriting don't matter: as long as I'm writing the correct strokes it recognizes the character.
And the Conjugations dictionary is also a boon, for those times I'm not quite sure I have a form right.
Aside from the great boon that the JLT/Axim itself is, Peter is a model of helpfulness and generosity. He's walked me through a few things 'by hand' and made the whole transition to this new technology simple and flawless.
Sure you can get a DenshiJishyo for (a bit) less, but Peter's system is much easier to use for those of us who are (in my case quite a bit) less than fluent in Japanese. And the fact that you also have a PDA just adds to the value.
As I told Peter recently, I feel sorry for the other students in my class: they don't have this handy tool.
I think you can tell that I highly recommend it.
--Customer is discussing the JLT Complete System build on a Dell Axim X51V PDA.
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