Archive for the ‘Dictionaries’ Category
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Jens Farley has whipped up a dictionary for MS Word that includes the syllables with and without tones. You can download and install it by following the same steps listed at my previous post.
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Sunday, April 8th, 2007
I had a Microsoft Word document with a lot of pinyin in it and I got a weird error message that said, "There are too many spelling or grammatical errors in (document name)" and then the little red squiggly lines that show me misspelled words went away.
The problem was, apparently, ...
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
See also MDBG Online Dictionary - Tutorial
Having looked at most of the major online Chinese-English dictionaries, there is absolutely no contest as to which is the best for laowai trying to learn Chinese.
There are two ways to get to the MDBG Chinese-English dictionary:
www.xuezhongwen.net (easier to remember)
www.mdbg.net
While it might be confusing ...
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
See also MDBG Online Dictionary - My review
There are two main ways to use the dictionary:
Basic Word Dictionary
Advanced Word Dictionary
I always start with the Basic Word Dictionary (even though sometimes I end up using some Advanced Word Dictionary tools).
Basic Word Dictionary
You can input English, pinyin, hanzi or combinations into the ...
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
It took Teddi and me about 90 seconds to admit that "Chubby" (as Teddi called him) is the best paper dictionary for an English-speaking laowai who is just starting to learn Chinese.
Chubby's strengths include:
Numerous sentence examples
A little grammar guide
A little tones guide (including tone changes)
A measure word reference
Radical index ...
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