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You probably haven’t heard about the Casio XD-GF6500 – but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth mentioning. Though a bit light on the Japanese/English dictionaries (it just includes the Progressive Japanese to English and a pair of Genius dictionaries), the Japanese pronuncation content is fantastic.

The XD-GF6500 is Casio’s first model to include more than the standard 10,000 Japanese audio words in the Meikyo. In this model they’ve increased it to 47,000 words. The included NHK Accent dictionary gives the proper accenting and pronunciation for 69,000 words, something lacking in most Japanese Dictionaries. And in addition to that the included Kojien Japanese dictionary gives the accents for 60,000 of the included 240,000 Words.

Here are the main points worth mentioning:

• 47,000 Japanese words with Audio in the Meiko
• 69,000 words with accenting pronuncation in the NHK accent dictionary
• 60,000 words with accenting in the Kojien Dictionary
• Classical, Proverb, and four-kanji compound texts
• Excellent handwritten kanji ability like in all the 2009 Casio models