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(More customer reviews)First of all I have to tell that I'm an intermediate
level chinese student, I have dealed with some chinese learning software, especially for PC's.
- Input: it has pinyin and wubi, however the pinyin input only accepts ONE chinese ideogram at a time, doesn't accept the whole word. For example: lao3 shi1 (two ideograms) = teacher . If someone says this word in chinese and I have to look for it using pinyin, when I write "lao", the system will present lots of characters for "lao" and I won't be
able to input the "shi" in order to look for the word that I'm looking for. So the method to find spoken words in chinese is almost useless.
- there are other chinese dictionary that accepts direct ideogram input,
which is not the case for this one...
- although there is pinyin at the input, there is no "pinyin" at the
meaning. But there is phonetics for the ENGLISH words... Well, I'm not
interested in english words, I'm interested in chinese words...
- the dictionary for this price range must have an ideogram writer with the order of the strokes.This dictionary may work well for eastern languages, but not for the chinese learners.... this is not a cheap dictionary, I think that it could be found dictionaries with the same capabilities above for much less.....I think that this is a good dictionary for traveling, you have to see if
there's a phrase that fits in your needs, but this is not a dictionary for serious learners.
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