« Food Photos by-calorie
Tokyu Hands Print Gocco Supplies »
Jan 06 2007

Canon Wordtank G90 Electronic Dictionary

Posted by: Michael Slater in Learning Japanese, Wordtank

I bought a Canon Wordtank G90 Electronic Dictionary at Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku today. I chose the G90 instead of the V90 because the V90, although it will pronounce words for you, only does it for the Chinese dictionary. I have no interest in Chinese, so there’s no reason to pay the extra money.
The G90 has an English ‘quick reference’ but I don’t think it’s complete, or at least not thorough. The ‘quick reference’ is perhaps 15% of the entire manual, the balance being in Japanese. For example, it is mentioned that you can turn the menuing to English from the setup menu. It’s up to you to figure out where the setup is. Ha. Also didn’t explain how to get to the “draw some kanji/kana on the screen”. (There is a small icon you need to click) Perhaps some day I’ll write a proper manual with screen shots for the thing and stick it online.

Anyway was just playing with it to see how it worked. Of course the first thing I did was enter “fuck” into the English-to-Japanese dictionary. It does auto-complete. Wow. A lot of results:

  1. fuck
  2. fuckable
  3. fuck-all
  4. fucked-
  5. fucked-up
  6. fucker
  7. fuckface
  8. fuckhead
  9. fucking
  10. fucking A
  11. fucking hell
  12. fuck-in-law (even I don’t know what this one means)
  13. fuck me
  14. fuckoff
  15. fuckpig (this wins the ‘Total Completeness Award’ — don’t think I’ve heard this term since university)
  16. fuck-up
  17. fuckwit

Anyway, I’ve only had the thing for a few hours, and don’t have much more to say about it yet.

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 6th, 2007 at 8:36 pm and is filed under Learning Japanese, Wordtank.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Canon Wordtank G90 Electronic Dictionary”
  1. Dave says: January 7th, 2007 at 1:59 am

    Aw fuck!

  2. Brittany says: February 5th, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    I just bought a wordtank v35 and am trying to figure out how to get the menu in english. As i was searching i stumbled across your page and now I’m wondreing if you know how to get the menu into english? hahaha thanks

  3. Michael Slater says: February 5th, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    yeah.. let me see if I can remember. oops.

    do you have a menu?
    look at pg 220 “key functions”
    press key #2 menu key (メ二ュー）
    right column, bottom row, select setup
    top row of that setup page, pick the far right option, it’s english.

    There you go. good luck.

    I am still lkearning how to use it. My japanese is poor so far.

    hope this helps.

  4. Jas says: September 4th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    I just brought the Wordtank V35, for Gaijin i am guessing it is OK.
    My wife has a Casio LP-XD9300 which is well advance, but she Japanese.
    But which one is best for Gaijin (English) to use???
    I want to input hiragana and katakana so i can then see romanji and Kanji anyone know a good electronic dictionary that will fullfil this requirement.
    hiragana and katakana is OK for me.
    Cheers

Leave a Reply