Comments on: Chubby: Best Paper Dictionary (first year) http://laowaichinese.net/chubby-best-paper-dictionary-first-year.htm Tips and Strategies for Learning to Speak Mandarin Chinese Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:37:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Christophe Strobbe http://laowaichinese.net/chubby-best-paper-dictionary-first-year.htm/comment-page-1#comment-7207 Christophe Strobbe Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:09:46 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=8#comment-7207 My favourite is Li Dong's "Beginner's Chinese Dictionary" (ISBN-13: 978-0804835510). It has sentence examples for every (!) word in the dictionary, and each sentence example is transcribed in pinyin. It also provides the measure word (or measure words) for every noun, and the traditional version of every simplified character. It focuses on core characters and vocabulary, which makes it very useful for anyone who wants to take the HSK Basic exam. Boping Yuan, the editor of "Chubby", also edited "Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary", which is also nice and covers a slightly larger vocabulary but has a few drawbacks compared to Li Dong's "Beginner's Chinese Dictionary": it doesn't have example sentences for every word, it doesn't provide the measure word(s) for the nouns (there is a separate section on measure words), and it doesn't provide the traditional versions of simplified characters (which is probably of minor importance for a learner). My favourite is Li Dong’s “Beginner’s Chinese Dictionary” (ISBN-13: 978-0804835510). It has sentence examples for every (!) word in the dictionary, and each sentence example is transcribed in pinyin. It also provides the measure word (or measure words) for every noun, and the traditional version of every simplified character. It focuses on core characters and vocabulary, which makes it very useful for anyone who wants to take the HSK Basic exam.

Boping Yuan, the editor of “Chubby”, also edited “Oxford Beginner’s Chinese Dictionary”, which is also nice and covers a slightly larger vocabulary but has a few drawbacks compared to Li Dong’s “Beginner’s Chinese Dictionary”: it doesn’t have example sentences for every word, it doesn’t provide the measure word(s) for the nouns (there is a separate section on measure words), and it doesn’t provide the traditional versions of simplified characters (which is probably of minor importance for a learner).

]]> By: Chinese dictionary http://laowaichinese.net/chubby-best-paper-dictionary-first-year.htm/comment-page-1#comment-7162 Chinese dictionary Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:30:55 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=8#comment-7162 an online dictionary is easier to use. an online dictionary is easier to use.

]]> By: Nedzer http://laowaichinese.net/chubby-best-paper-dictionary-first-year.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6488 Nedzer Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:33:36 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=8#comment-6488 {Correction} you can read parts of the book {Correction} you can read parts of the book

]]> By: Nedzer http://laowaichinese.net/chubby-best-paper-dictionary-first-year.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6487 Nedzer Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:22:12 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=8#comment-6487 Follow this link (below) to a book written in 1971. It's a sentence dictionary, and for every word there is an example sentence in pinyin (with tones) and hanzi. Ha, ha, the hanzi is hand written, but it's still easy to read. Mandarin Chinese Dictionary By Fred Fangyu Wang, Dover publications 1971 http://books.google.ie/books?id=NisLLQ_KPT4C&pg=PR6&dq=chinese+sentence+dictionary#PPR16,M1 (you can read the book online through Google's book project) Follow this link (below) to a book written in 1971. It’s a sentence dictionary, and for every word there is an example sentence in pinyin (with tones) and hanzi. Ha, ha, the hanzi is hand written, but it’s still easy to read.
Mandarin Chinese Dictionary By Fred Fangyu Wang, Dover publications 1971

http://books.google.ie/books?id=NisLLQ_KPT4C&pg=PR6&dq=chinese+sentence+dictionary#PPR16,M1

(you can read the book online through Google’s book project)

]]> By: Nedzer http://laowaichinese.net/chubby-best-paper-dictionary-first-year.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6486 Nedzer Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:45:34 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=8#comment-6486 found it! found it!

]]> By: Nedzer http://laowaichinese.net/chubby-best-paper-dictionary-first-year.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6485 Nedzer Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:37:47 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=8#comment-6485 Can't find my chubby! It's lost somewhere amongst my piles of useless Learn-Chinese books. I have quite the collection hehehe. Can’t find my chubby! It’s lost somewhere amongst my piles of useless Learn-Chinese books.
I have quite the collection hehehe.

]]> By: Anonymous http://laowaichinese.net/chubby-best-paper-dictionary-first-year.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6 Anonymous Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:50:56 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=8#comment-6 You are so clever. I will thank you both for Chubby. You are so clever. I will thank you both for Chubby.

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