[New Product] IC dictionary

In March, Canon Marketing Japan Inc. is to release an electronic dictionary with 29 Chinese, Japanese and English contents.

In addition to the Japanese-English dictionaries, wordtank V903 comes with 15 Chinese contents, including Chinese-Japanese and Chinese-English dictionary, conversation phrases in Mandarin, Shanghai, Cantonese and Taiwanese dialects, and computer, electronics and e-mail words and phrases.

Chinese and English learning functions are available such as an audio book function which lets you listen to conversations by Chinese and English native speakers and check the text screen, and the dictation function with keyboard or handwriting input options for Chinese quizzes.

The IC dictionary is equipped with an MP3 player and MP3 voice-recording function (optional SD memory card is required), which allows you to record and compare your pronunciation with the native speaker’s.

World search and navigation is made easy with the 4.9-inch touch-screen LCD on which you can directly write kainji, hiragana, katakana, numbers and alphabets.

The suggested retail price of wordtank V903 is 55,000 yen, excluding tax.

For more details, visit Canon’s Japanese Web site at http://canon.jp/
or contact (043)211-9632

by Minami Iijima staff writer
The article appeard in Feb.26 issue of The Japan Times.