Rikaichan
Do you find it annoying reading webpages and emails when there’s TONZ of kanji and Japanese that you don’t know? Do you find yourself banging your head against your monitor as you tediously copy and paste word after word into a dictionary website? Well fear not. JEdutainment has got you covered! We’d like to to introduce to you a really amazing tool that you can download for free. It’s a plugin for Firefox that allows you to simply mouse over a Japanese word/character and it will popup the definition/translation. Once you start using it you’ll wonder how you ever computed in Japanese without it.
The plugin is called Rikaichan. But first you’ll need to download the Firefox web browser. Once you get Firefox installed head on over to the Rikaichan website. There you can download the Rikaichan plugin and dictionary file of your choice. Restart Firefox and you’re ready to roll. To activate the plugin simply click on the “Tools” menu, and then “Toggle Rikaichan.”
