studymorechinese asked: I saw your post about Wenlin mandarin software - what level of chinese learner do you recommend for it and what do you like about it (vs. other products).
Thanks!
Hello Brandon,
I recommend Wenlin for all levels of Chinese learners.
If:
You want to read a Chinese text with instant translations. You want to compose a text in Chinese. You want to convert a traditional Chinese text into simplified. You have studied a new character and want to know, in which words it is used. You want to know from which components a certain character is built. You want to know the etymology of a character. You want to know the frequency of a character or word. You need a pinyin transcription with tones or numbers. You want to practise your handwriting. You want to make regex-like find and replaces fast as lightning. You need different formats as: Unicode, UTF-8, Gb, Big-5 etc. You work a lot with Chinese in Microsoft Access, Filemaker and PHP/SQl kind of ways.
Short summary of the reasons I like Wenlin : 1. phantastic ABC-dictionary 2. most elaborate Character dictionary 3. Transformations 4. List-by- function 5. Hanzi-Filter 6. Speed 7. Flashcard 8. Handwriting 9. Pronunciation 10. Wordprocessing and reading tool
On my computer Wenlin is always open!
See also this screencast by Stian Haklev and try out the demo by Wenlin Software.
