Enter your word information into the New word dialog and press the Save button to have the word added to the dictionary.
日本語 にほんご Japanese language
We begin by entering the Kanji into the New word dialog. Position the cursor in the Kana/Kanji area by clicking it - you will then see the flashing green Kana cursor displayed. Click the Kanji button on the Input dialog and enter each of the three Kanji of the sample word above (it is assumed you already know how to use the Japanese input system). You should now have a New word dialog which looks like Figure 2.
To complete the entry of the word, click the English textbox and type in the English definition: 'Japanese language'. Go down to the Type textbox, click the popup menu next to it and select 'n - noun' from the list. This sets the word type to 'noun'. You should now have a New word dialog which looks like Figure 4. Press the Save button and the word will be saved in the dictionary, and the New word dialog cleared, ready for entry of the next word.
Additional word information
The Status popup menu allows you to select whether the word is included in exercises if you were to add the dictionary to the Flashcard dictionary list. Generally, you should leave this as Unused and let the Lesson planner control the word status information.
The Year, Lesson and Group numbers shown on the New word dialog allow you to group words so they will come up in a particular lesson in the Lesson planner. For example, if you are a 2nd year student in your 12th week of study and you are entering your weekly vocabulary into JWM for study, you might make the Year number equal to 2 and the Lesson number equal to 12. This will help you find all words in this weekly vocabulary list easily at a later time. The Group number you use is completely up to you, and should be left blank if unused.
The three buttons on the right side of the New word dialog allow you to attach multimedia to a word (these buttons are shown in Figure 5 below). This allows you to create multimedia dictionaries which can include sounds, pictures and multilingual notes (ie. you can create a text document with JWM and attach that to the word). These multimedia are used during the exercise process, and adding them makes exercising more interesting and varied and also assists with memorisation of Kanji and vocabulary.
For example, if you would like to attach a sound to a word, press the Attach sound button and the dialog in Figure 6 will be displayed. Press the Attach button on this dialog and you will be able to select a sound using the File selection dialog.