About
A few years ago I started learning Japanese, and along the way I've created some tools to help me do so. One of those is a Japanese-to-English Translator .
One of the first things I noticed about Japanese is that, unlike Latin-based languages, it's not trivial to determine where a word ends and the next one begins (i.e., there's no "space" character). I found this makes using dictionaries to look up sentences incredibly frustrating, so I wrote a script that looks up every combination of adjacent characters (in an online dictionary) until a translation for every character sequence in a given sentence has been found. This worked well enough for my needs, so I kept adding more features, like audio recordings or a visual aid for drawing the characters.