Romaji to Kana Translator

Cultural differences are amongst the traits that make us unique as a species. It's rather difficult to learn multiple languages, because of different writing styles and characters used, pronunciation and more. Luckily, a computer even helps with translation and applications like Romaji to Kana Translator are suitable examples with which to easily learn new languages, this case being dedicated to Japanese.

Right after the download process is finished you can go ahead and take it for a spin to see what it's all about. No installation is required, which comes in handy for storing it on a USB Flash drive and use on the go, if the circumstances require it.

The main window is pretty shallow, with most of the space being an empty text field where strings you want to convert go. The application only handles plain, unformatted text, so you won't get to see or use any editing options whatsoever.

A primary consequence is that files you work with are limited to TXT. You can load them, but only through the open dialog, because drag and drop is not supported. Saving just requires you to give the new file a custom name and destination.

The application's core function revolves around two components of the Japanese writing system, namely Katakana and Hiragana. Once your text is in the corresponding fields, you can either select a portion, or have translation applied to the whole text, for both components.

Functionality is narrowed down to character conversion, with no built-in feature to find out meaning. What's more, new characters are shown instantly, but there's no option to convert to the other counterpart, nor an undo button to fix mistakes.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Romaji to Kana Translator is a straightforward utility which only comes in handy for character conversion. The set of features it comes with is rather poor, while the lack of support for at least rich text format leaves a little more to be desired.