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Wenlin 3.0 | 
 enlarge | From: Wenlin
Category: Software
List Price: $249.49
Buy New: $129.99
You Save: $119.50 (48%)
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 5828
Format: Cd-rom
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP, Mac
UPC: 854149077016
EAN: 0854149077016
ASIN: B000COCLPQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The very extensive ABC Chinese-English Dictionary, with over 74,000 words and phrases, edited by John DeFrancis | | • | Extensively cross-referenced character descriptions include pictures of ancient, modern, simple and full form characters. | | • | Wenlin lets you read, write, edit and print Chinese documents of any size. | | • | Characters can be entered using pinyin or handwriting recognition. | | • | Wenlin's flashcards provide automated drill and review, with multiple choice and composed-answer testing phases. |
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Product Description
Wenlin 3.0 Learning Chinese Software for Windows and Mac. # The very extensive ABC Chinese-English Dictionary, with over 74,000 words and phrases, edited by John DeFrancis, is included, plus a character dictionary with over 10,000 characters, and an English-Chinese dictionary.# Extensively cross-referenced character descriptions include pictures of ancient, modern, simple and full form characters. Each character entry is linked to listings of all the compound words that contain the character, including definitions, ordered by frequency of usage.# Wenlin lets you read, write, edit and print Chinese documents of any size. It supports Unicode format, the most widely recognized world standard, as well as GB, Big5 and HZ. Its full-featured text editor allows you to copy and paste between applications and is compatible with other Chinese language software and tablet hardware.# Characters can be entered using pinyin or handwriting recognition. Simple and full form Chinese characters, pinyin and English can be combined in one document.# Wenlin's flashcards provide automated drill and review, with multiple choice and composed-answer testing phases. The dictionary is always accessible while using flashcards to memorize characters.# The stroking box assists writing through animated stroke-by-stroke display of over 10,000 characters.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Very good, but still room for improvement June 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a late adopter of Wenlin, I started to use it only almost two years into my studies, preferring traditional dictionaries. For the memorization of characters I'd suggest starting students stick to printed dictionaries for some time before they start using software like Wenlin.
The user interface of Wenlin is cheap, almost retro: it has an opening and ending jingle and seems designed for functionality more than anything. It is, however, very easy to use in terms of looking up single words and characters: it offers a host of ways to do this according to what you need.
Generally speaking, Wenlin stops being useful when you move into computer and technical terms. In businesses such as accounting or steel-working you will have to stick to traditional dictionaries or your gut feeling. For literature and articles, it is very, very good. You can copy/paste entire articles and then mouse-look all the words until you know the meaning of the article. This is a double-edged sword, as several as my co-students have found out: come exam-time, with no Wenlin and only a printed dictionary, you will quickly be lost. Don't get too dependent on it.
An excellent purchase but still some room for improvement in terms of providing technical and computing terms. Worth the money.
 Worth Every Penny November 9, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the Best Chinese-English Software out there. Move your mouse over a character to get possible translations, including coloquialisms. Type in the pin-yin to get matching characters. Studying Chinese becomes quick and painless. I bought this for my husband for his Chinese class he's taking, and it shaved about two hours of his homework time to not have to search through the dictionary by hand to find characters. Well worth every penny.
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