What is Reddit's opinion of The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary?

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I didn't really have a choice in my approach. When I started learning, I was living in Japan and neither the internet nor any electronic gadgetry existed yet. Pointing a smartphone at something and having it do the work for me wasn't an option. Similarly, lugging a ginormous 1600 page copy of Nelson's around with me for daily life wasn't an option either.

I also quickly saw that for verbal interactions carrying around and constantly referring to a paper dictionary wasn't practical, so I decided that I was going to get through daily life without leaning on the crutch of a dictionary.

I think where many learners get hung up is through developing an over-dependence on dictionaries and electronic "cheats" such as Rikaichan, google translate, etc that may seem like marvelous expedients in the moment but which through over-reliance on them turn out to have a hobbling effect on their ability to function without them.

Similarly, a habit of stopping to look things up also has the effect of hampering the development of the ability to read smoothly and quickly. How many times have you seen people warning each other that there isn't time to actually read the text selections on the JLPT reading comprehension section and that there is only time to skim the text? Complete horseshit, as there is more than ample time for anyone who has built up reading skills through sufficient reading without stopping to look things up.

 

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The 日本語文型辞典 (at least, the Japanese version of it) has been around for a while, right? I remember swearing by it when I was in grad school.

>I was learning back when none of these internet resources were available at all, other than EDICT.

Those were the days. I have fond memories of looking up kanji in the New Nelson and using the EDICT addon for JWPce.

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