Dictionaries / Reference
Online translation services (Altavista, Jeffrey's, Eijiro) are all well and good, but sometimes you just can't beat a good book. The following collection includes kanji and grammar dictionaries as well as vocabulary ones, so there should be something for everyone.
Essential Kanji: 2, 000 Basic Japanese Characters Systematically Arranged for Learning and ReferenceKodansha Kanji Learner's DictionaryKodansha's Furigana Dictionary: Japanese-English/English-Japanese
Essential Kanji: 2, 000 Basic Japanese Char...
by P.G. O'Neill
£9.72
I don't actually have this one myself, but it gets very good reviews. Covering 2000 kanji, roughly equivalent to the official ...
Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary
by Jack Halpern
£15.02
My current dictionary of choice. It uses a great system called SKIP to help you look up kanji you don't recognise quickly, wit...
Kodansha's Furigana Dictionary: Japanese-En...
by Kodansha International
£26.19
Kodansha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary (Japanese for Busy People)Kodansha's Furigana Japanese-English DictionaryA Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns (Kodansha Dictionary)
Kodansha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictio...
by Masotoshi Yoshida
£15.04
Kodansha's Furigana Japanese-English Dictio...
by Masotoshi Yoshida
£12.30
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Pat...
by Naoko Chino
£8.49
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese GrammarDictionary of Japanese ParticlesKodansha's Essential Kanji Dictionary
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
by Seiichi Makino; Michio Tsutsui
£36.13
I found this book really useful when starting out (and there's a sister volume for intermediate grammar too). It's not the bes...
Dictionary of Japanese Particles
by Sue Kawashima
£12.74
Kodansha's Essential Kanji Dictionary
by Kodansha International
£17.42
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