My Casio GW-9600 electronic dictionary [1] was an amazing help in learning Japanese. It's perfectly optimized for quick word lookup: it boots from sleep instant

My Casio GW-9600 electronic dictionary [1] was an amazing help in learning Japanese. It's perfectly optimized for quick word lookup: it boots from sleep instantly, the definitions are previewed as you type words, it has a full physical keyboard, and the screen is large but low-power so it rarely ever runs out of battery. The metal frame also makes it durable to falls on cement, etc. The content was, of course, also huge, almost guaranteeing that every word I searched for would be there. Well worth the money. I'm sad that the newer models became much slower; when you have to look up hundreds of words a day, there's a big difference between 5 seconds and .5 seconds. My favorite dictionary app is a Thai one from word-in-the-hand and Paiboon [2]. The dictionary data is quite extensive, and includes linked categories like "food", "pronoun", "geography", "counter", etc. Tapping on the category tags takes you to other words of the same category (great for studying, say, restaurant vocab) and also to articles that teach you Thai via phrases and cultural info, and to grammatical explanations for, e.g. counters or prepositions. On top of all that, it supports several romanization schemes and includes baked-in information to help you learn to read the Thai orthography. It's a fantastic combination of extensive dictionary with good information for learners. Plus it has a (limited) export feature, which is something that Ex-Word never supported (except for if you bought special hardware to export to). [1] http://gakuran.com/casio-ex-word-xd-gw9600/ http://gakuran.com/casio-ex-word-xd-gw9600/ [2] https://word-in-the-hand.com/thai-dictionary/ https://word-in-the-hand.com/thai-dictionary/