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Wenlin Software for learning Chinese (文林) is a software application designed by Tom Bishop, based on his own experience of the needs of learners of the Chinese language, predominantly Mandarin. It contains a dictionary function as well as a text reader/writer function for reading and creating Chinese text files. Flashcards of new characters can also be compiled to aid in learning.
The dictionary search starts with the reader selecting a chinese character or compound on the screen and going to the definition. If there are any characters within the definition the meaning of these can also be inspected from within the dictionary search.
It is marketed by the Wenlin Institute, a commercial software company run by Tom Bishop. The current version (July 2005) is 3.2 and a free demonstration (version 3.1.9) is available for download. This version supports several functions as stroke order, characters ordered by different criterias as amount of stroke, frequency etc., speaking of syllables and the identification of drawn characters.
The software runs on all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, as well as Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. The company has plans to produce a version that will run natively on Linux, and meanwhile some users have reported success in running it on Linux under Wine.
External links
- Official web site
- Review by Cecilia P. Y. Chu of UC Berkeley
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