{"id":51,"date":"2005-07-11T22:33:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T12:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/japan\/?p=51"},"modified":"2005-07-12T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T02:30:57","slug":"canon-wordtank-g50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/learn-japanese\/electronic-dictionaries\/canon-wordtank-g50\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon Wordtank G50"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pic-top\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/japan\/wp\/wp-content\/pic\/canon-g50.jpg\" alt=\"Canon Wordtank G50\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Canon Wordtank G50 electronic dictionary is one of the newer Wordtank models. Apparently it&#8217;s very popular. For me, the best new features are the improved dictionaries and the animated kanji stroke order.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The most impressive change is the dictionaries. The G50 has about twice as many entries as previous Wordtanks &#8212; over 450,000 entries in the Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionaries. The <a href=\"\/japan\/learn-japanese\/electronic-dictionaries\/canon-wordtank-idf-3000\/\">IDF-3000<\/a> had just over 200,000. Hopefully this will allow it to avoid the IDf-3000&#8217;s problems with word lookups.<\/p>\n<p>The other neat feature is the kanji stroke order animations. Look up a kanji, press a button and you&#8217;ll see an animation showing the stroke order of the kanji. This is obviously useful for a learner &#8212; it works for the 2000 or so daily use kanji, which should be enough for most people.<\/p>\n<p>As with most Wordtanks, you can set it to display on-screen instructions in English. An English manual are also available.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.jlist.com\/click\/258?url=http:\/\/www.jbox.com\/PRODUCT\/G50\">buy the Wordtank G50 at JBOX.com<\/a>. They also have some useful <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.jlist.com\/click\/258?url=http:\/\/www.jbox.com\/STUDYAIDS\/\">study aids<\/a> and lots of other fun stuff from Japan. <em>Note: If you click these links to shop at JBOX.com, this website makes a small commission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canon Wordtank G50 electronic dictionary is one of the newer Wordtank models. Apparently it&#8217;s very popular. For me, the best new features are the improved dictionaries and the animated kanji stroke order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}