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The Best English-Chinese Dictionary Available, May 28, 2004
When I first told my classmates about this dictionary, they didn't
believe me. What it is is an English Chinese dictionary, wherein you can
look up an English word, and it will give you the Chinese in characters,
and then in pinyin as well so you can pronounce the word you have just
looked up.
This is so amazingly usefull. It is normaly a feature in pocket
dictionaries and English-Chinese/Chinese-English dictionaries, but those
are all more for travelers than students, and don't come close to
providing a comprehensive resource. Most English-Chinese dictionaries
continue to be compiled with Chinese learners of English in mind, not the
other way around. Thus, since Chinese people largely already know how to
pronounce their own characters, no pronunciation guide is given. Thus you
encounter the odd problem of American students being able to write things
in Chinese that they cannot say. It's the exact opposite of illitaracy!
This book also provides an extensive, fairly uncensored lexicon, and
lots of examples in complete sentances. I even find English words in it
that I didn't already know, and that's rare in a foreign language
dictionary.
All in all, an indespensable language guide. |
