ALL NEW V3.1 release! Pure native voice, crystal clear sound! Supports Kanji/Romaji!

Feature Highlights

• Support Kanji, Romaji and Hiragana/Katakana. - NEW in V3.1
• FREE upgrade from v3.0!
• More than 1000 words and phrases, 10 Major categories and 50 sub categories
• Every single phrase has crystal clear voice, recorded by a native speaker
• Fast voice play back
• Compose your phrase from selecting from a list
• Search a phrase by key word(s)
• Link to related phrases
• Organize frequently used phrases your own way
• Useful travel and cultural tips
  

Overview

Welcome to H&H Japan2Go, a talking English-Japanese phrase book. Featuring crystal clear voice recorded by a native speaker, this phrase book is a great travel companion and an ideal tool to start learning Japanese. With our cutting edge voice compression technology, this product includes more than 1000 phrases, their translation, and the voice in only a few megabytes.

Japan2Go Phrase Book includes more than 1000 frequently-used words and phrases, organized into 10 major categories and 50 sub categories, and it's extremely convenient to browse. The search feature makes it even easier to find the phrase you want.

With the cool "favorites" category, your favorite phrases are now only one click away! When you browse phrases, click the "favorites" button on the tool bar to put the phrase into your favorites category - a top level category in the main menu. Going to the airport in a cab? Now you can have "Please call a taxi for me." and "Please take me the to airport." next to each other!

Kanji and Japanese characters (new in v3.1)

Today's Japanese is written with a mixture of hiragana and katakana, in addition to kanji (Chinese characters). Romaji is the standard way of transliterating Japanese into the Latin alphabet. H&H Japan2Go Talking Phrase Book allows you to switch between Kanji and Hiragana/Katakana, and see the Romaji for every phrase. To switch between Kanji and Hiragana/Katakana, click the orange button located near the bottom of the phrase view page.

Favorites

Use the "Favorites" category to organize the phrases your own way! You can put a phrase into your "favorite" category, accessible from either the Tools menu -> Add to favorites, or the button on the tool bar when you browse a phrase. When you browse the favorites category, you can delete a phrase from the list by selecting it and clicking the "delete favorite" button on the toolbar.

Related

When applicable, "related" phrases can be browsed by clicking the related button on the tool bar. For example, phrase "Is there a restaurant nearby?" has the following related phrases: 1. "Can you show me this on the map?", 2. "How far is it from here?", and 3. "Could you please call a taxi for me?". This feature can not only make your conversation a lot easier, but also help you learn Japanese.

Search

You can search phrases by key word(s). Click the search button on the toolbar for this function.

Voice samples

The table below gives a few voice sound samples. Click the speaker icon to play. If your browser does not support sound then you may need to download the wave file first. Note: in the trial version, sound is available only in the "Basic" category. After the trial expires you will not be able to hear any sound.