MSPhrase OXFORD English - Japanese - English Phasebank and Wordbank

A complete Oxford phrasebook with over 3,000 current "survival" expressions in Japanese and English to help travellers and make their trips more comfortable and enjoyable. With an easy-to-use graphic interface separate icons link to topics covering a common travel situation. This English - Japanese - English phrasebook is based on the Oxford Phrasebank, specially designed for travel reference. The phrasebook features translations of core vocabulary from English into Japanese and from Japanese to English, and consist of a Phrasebank in both languages and a English - Japanese - English Wordbank of core terms.

Phrasebank

• Coverage of 3,000 base phrases (per language), 5,000 expanded phrases (excluding templates) and 20,000 expanded phrases (including templates)
• Compressed format reducing storage space for phrase variants
• 9 topics/15 subtopics
• Extension of selected phrases using 12 template lists
• Topics - Diversions, Eating Out, Entertainment, Hotel, Money, Problems, Tourist, Transport, Miscellaneous
• Templates - Body Parts, Cardinal Numbers, Clock Time, Colours, Currencies, Dates, Days of Week, Languages, Months, Nationalities, Ordinal Numbers, Places

Please note that the phrasebook program does not support Japanese input and if you want to search the phrasebook with Japanese characters you need to have a phone which supports Japanese input or FEP.

Wordbank

• Coverage of 17,500 core terms
• All translations in the Wordbank are provided along with appropriate part of speech and gender information

Other Mobile Phrasebooks Based on the Oxford Phrasebank

The MSPhrase Oxford Multilingual Phrasebank English - Japanese - English is here presented in MSDict electronic format. MSDict offers best experience in mobile reference and is available for any handheld platform.

• 12 languages covered (including regional variants)
• UK English, US English, French, German, Italian, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean
• Mobile phrasebooks available for each of the language parings of the languages above