Ages 12 - Adult. Interactive software used for both reading and writing Chinese literature. This Chinese Language Software combines a high-speed expandable Chinese dictionary, a full-featured text editor, and unique 'flashcard' system all in one intuitive environment. This Chinese language course is wonderful!
Its electronic dictionary has pictures of ancient and modern forms of Chinese characters and contains over 10,000 characters and over 13,000 compound words and phrases. The Chinese language software Wenlin can be used both for writing and for reading Chinese literature. Includes a 216 page user's manual.
What's New in Version Three?
New Dictionary - Where Wenlin 2 used the first edition of the ABC (Alphabetically Based Computerized) Chinese-English Dictionary, this new Chinese language course, Wenlin 3.1, uses a new, greatly enlarged and improved version of the same dictionary. Qualitative improvements include measure words for nouns, more detailed definitions, and new example sentences for common vocabulary. The zidian (dictionary of Chinese characters) has also been enlarged and revised.
Dictionary Menu - If you've made changes or additions to your copy of the Wenlin dictionary, or you anticipate making such changes in the future, you might want to switch back and forth between your customized dictionary and the latest one; or you might like to extract your modified entries from one dictionary and add them to another. What other Chinese language software does that?
Font Menu - Two new fonts, one for Hanzi and one for pinyin, are now included with Wenlin Chinese language software, and fonts from other sources are also supported. The new Hanzi font, developed by Wenlin Institute, is in the classic Song (dynasty) woodblock style. It looks smooth at any size. The new pinyin (and English) font is based on the design of 16th-century typographer Claude Garamond, digitized by Rubicon Labs Inc., and licensed and modified by Wenlin Institute to include pinyin tone marks. If you have another TrueType Unicode font for Hanzi or pinyin, you can use it in Wenlin's Chinese language software.
Handwriting Recognition - The 'brush' tool is more flexible. It can be moved anywhere on the screen, and it has new options for keeping its window open (rather than closing after each character), tolerating non-standard stroke order, and giving a list of the most similar characters to what you write (instead of only giving you what it calculates to be the single closest match).
MacOS X - Native compatibility with Apple's latest operating system. This Chinese language course is very compatible.
Unicode and GB Support - Compatibility with the latest international and PRC character encoding standards: Unicode 3.1 and GB18030, which encode over 70,000 Hanzi. (Support for the Taiwan Big5+ standard was already added in Wenlin 2.1.)
Radical Look-up Method - Look up characters by the conservative system of 214 radicals, used by the famous Kangxi dictionary and many others. Characters with the same radical are ordered by stroke count, and those with the same stroke count are ordered by the five stroke types.
Printing - Specify margins, in inches or centimeters. Choose whether to print page numbers and show pagination (page breaks) on the screen.
List Numbers - How high can you count in Chinese? If you're ever in doubt how to write and pronounce a number (up to ten digits), this new List menu command in this Chinese language software can satisfy your curiosity.
Options Menu - You can now choose colors from the full range of colors that are possible on your computer. You can specify a special convert key other than slash (/), which should be especially helpful to users of some non-English keyboards. The Smooth text, Tab width, Quiet, and Hanzi filter options are also new (all described in Chapter 2 of the Wenlin 3.1 User's Guide).
Site license Pricing:
10 user lab pack - $1500.00
20 user lab pack - $2400.00
50 user lab pack - $5500.00
Wenlin requires for PC: Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME or XP; 8MB RAM; Mouse; CD-ROM drive; VGA display; 500MB free hard drive space. Macintosh requires: System 7+; CDROM drive; 500MB free hard drive space - It does NOT require Chinese Language Kit.
