What is this symbol - in Japanese to English translation?

Answer 1

On the internet, I speak a little Japanese so I can name a few websites: http://www.spanishdict.com. It is Spanish, but there is an option to what language you would like to translate to. There is a sentence option. Say you wanted to say hello how are you doing. You type it in the sentence box and it will come out Spanish Change the translation to Japanese and it will come out as Japanese. Also, check out Kanji dictionaries. Japanese is becoming more and more popular as a foreign language to study, so it shouldn't be too hard to find in a major bookstore

Jisho.org is a translating tool specifically for Japanese. It will translate both directions and will even attempt to translate whole sentences. It is most helpful for kanji translation because you can look up kanji by the radicals (the "pieces" that make a kanji, the brush strokes) without having to know its meaning or anything about Japanese at all.

Answer 2

Jim Breen's wwwJDIC is a good translation site. you can translate whole paragraphs, look up kanji and translate words to and from Japanese. The URL is http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C

Answer 3

Japanese writing in English letters is referred to as romaji.

It is very useful to begin learning Japanese because it is easy to see how the language is pronounced.

an example of romaji would be

chikatetsu- subway

Answer 4

katakana is used to pronounce foreign words in Japan. there is no way to change letter-per character.

Answer 5

means string out the sound so a- = AA