English to Romaji translator

rogerfreak · December 27th, 2003, 09:33 AM

i have seen english to japanese characters and japanese characters to english but are there any translator out there that translate to romaji because i cant pronounce those japanese characters at all....hehe

Okamura_Takashi · December 27th, 2003, 06:36 PM

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Originally posted by rogerfreak
i have seen english to japanese characters and japanese characters to english but are there any translator out there that translate to romaji because i cant pronounce those japanese characters at all....hehe

Most places don't provide romaji for the translation because it is not a good representation of the Japanese language. Hiragana and Katakana are not hard to learn and I'd suggest spending a few days to learn how to read those.

rogerfreak · December 27th, 2003, 08:41 PM

a few days?
just a few days to learn those? but i thought there will be like million of these words like those chinese characters?
and any good places for me to start from?
thanks

bukimi · December 27th, 2003, 09:55 PM

Hiragana and katakana don't have as many characters as kanji. I don't know the exact number but there can't be anymore than 150 for each alphabet. That's counting the stuff like 'pya' and 'ryo'.

Hiragana is used for words native to the Japanese language. Katakana is used for foreign words.

SeannyB · December 29th, 2003, 10:33 AM

checkit: http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl

2007 update, lol: http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/

kimbella · July 15th, 2007, 05:04 PM

I had the same issue heres what i did:

You could translate english to japanese here:
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/index.html

Then Take that and translate japanese to romaji here:
http://www.animelab.com/anime.manga/translate

The second site is not 100% accurate but it looks pretty accurate to me

I thought i might as well post because this could be very hard to find and even though this thread is 4 years old i thought oh well XD

vijay · July 6th, 2008, 02:03 AM

we are comes

vijay · July 6th, 2008, 02:04 AM

pl cane in romaji

Soluzar · July 6th, 2008, 03:29 AM

http://nihongo.j-talk.com/parser/

This will convert any kanji string to romaji. Please do bear in mind though that it is not completely accurate. In some cases there is more than one possible reading for a compound, and this tool can only pick the most common.

Oh wait, this thread is ancient. Ooooops.

Jatz · July 6th, 2008, 05:25 AM

You can blame vijay for the spam.

wormhole · February 10th, 2009, 05:22 PM

A little tool I had made for myself a while ago: English to Romaji Translator.

Hope you find it useful.

The Million Dollar Prons · February 10th, 2009, 06:30 PM

Thanks wormhole!

I often use http://romaji.org/

Victory · February 10th, 2009, 07:14 PM

psa: romaji is the devil

December 27th, 2003, 09:33 AM	#1
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Soluzar Double rainbow! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: All the way across the sky... Posts: 13,583 Blog Entries: 45	http://nihongo.j-talk.com/parser/ This will convert any kanji string to romaji. Please do bear in mind though that it is not completely accurate. In some cases there is more than one possible reading for a compound, and this tool can only pick the most common. Oh wait, this thread is ancient. Ooooops. __________________ One day men will ask... "Where did it start?" We shall tell them it started here. Join the ranks of Team Soluzar! Protect the forum against the threat of unexpected Prons incursions. Your forum needs YOU.

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December 27th, 2003, 08:41 PM	#3
rogerfreak Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 2	a few days? just a few days to learn those? but i thought there will be like million of these words like those chinese characters? and any good places for me to start from? thanks

July 15th, 2007, 05:04 PM	#6
kimbella Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1	I had the same issue heres what i did: You could translate english to japanese here: http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/index.html Then Take that and translate japanese to romaji here: http://www.animelab.com/anime.manga/translate The second site is not 100% accurate but it looks pretty accurate to me I thought i might as well post because this could be very hard to find and even though this thread is 4 years old i thought oh well XD

July 6th, 2008, 02:03 AM	#7
vijay Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	we are comes

July 6th, 2008, 02:04 AM	#8
vijay Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	pl cane in romaji

February 10th, 2009, 05:22 PM	#11
wormhole Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2	A little tool I had made for myself a while ago: English to Romaji Translator. Hope you find it useful.

February 10th, 2009, 06:30 PM	#12
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