If you were on a desert island

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If you were going to a desert island with Japanese books but no internet connection, which Japanese-English dictionary would you take with you? Thanks for any suggestions, I will have to go on vacation mode during Spring break and want to at least do some reading…

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Is Leebo a dictionary?

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If I were in a desert island, I’d like a dictionary I can use to dig myself out.

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But my wife and the in-laws might find weird if I bring Leebo to Culebra (which is not desert by the way…).

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I’d probably carry a survival book instead.

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I’d get an electronic dictionary

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I believe there are some offline jisho apps available. depending on your electricity situation, it may save you some time in the page flipping phase.

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But why are you going to spend Spring break on a desert island, though?

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If I had an Apple device I’d use Imiwa. I haven’t found a nice free offline one for Android yet (but I haven’t needed one in a long time).

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I don’t think desert islands have outlets for charging said Apple device. Do you want to help OP or not?!

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If I was on a desert island I’d bring at least one portable USB charger battery. Put the phone on airplane mode and only use it for the dictionary and it will easily last a week with one of those

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On Android, I like to use the takoboto app because it’s pretty good at identifying conjugations and separating a whole string into different parts. The Kanji Study app recently had a major upgrade, letting you search whole words instead of just kanji, but it’s not great with conjugations or with searching more than one word at a time.

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Said device will charge from a travel solar panel. It is a sunny desert island, isn’t it?

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Maybe it’s a tropical desert island and it rains every day

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Then the pages of the hypothetical book would get wet anyway.

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I’m starting to think going to the desert island just isn’t a good idea. :woman_shrugging:

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A dessert island, on the other hand…

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Count me in! :cake::ice_cream::cookie::moon_cake::durtle_love:

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This is the stuff I come to the forums for.

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