Taiwan Chinese learning software

[Craig0928]

Hello, can you please tell me the name of some Taiwan Chinese learning software..
I have been told there are at least two local companies/publishers producing CD ROM software or book/CD ROM combinations to learn Mandarin..

Thank you very much, Have a great weekend!

[Hamletintaiwan]

Far East have a variety of Chinese learning software.

I use the Far east 3000 character CD Rom for learning characters.

[Albannach]

You might want to have a look at the software produced by these people:

http://www.iqchinese.com/

[Craig0928]

Thank you for your comment...

It will be interesting to see if there are any others (software) on this island of 25 million people!

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[Doraemonster]

Craig,

Early in my Chinese studies I made the mistake of buying the Far East 3000-Character Dictionary with a CD. I also got some other local stuff I don't even remember the names of. I spent quite a lot of money on it, and it was all terrible.

The only software you want for learning Chinese is Pleco and/or Wenlin.

Trust me, you don't want to use any Taiwanese software unless you have no choice. Maybe something has changed recently, but I don't think it did.

If you want to check Taiwan-specific pronunciation, use this online dictionary:
http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/

[Hamletintaiwan]

Craig,

Early in my Chinese studies I made the mistake of buying the Far East 3000-Character Dictionary with a CD. I also got some other local stuff I don't even remember the names of. I spent quite a lot of money on it, and it was all terrible.

The only software you want for learning Chinese is Pleco and/or Wenlin.

Trust me, you don't want to use any Taiwanese software unless you have no choice. Maybe something has changed recently, but I don't think it did.

If you want to check Taiwan-specific pronunciation, use this online dictionary:
http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/

Far east 3000 Characters includes the Bo Po Mo Fo which I prefer to Pin yin.
If I want to learn romanisations I'd move to Europe.
Running it from a CD-ROM was the only thing that turned me off at first. However, you can create an ISO and run it from your Hard-drive that way.
I actually made a video demo so you can judge for yourself if it has any use or not.


I use it in connection with Rosetta Stone which is an excellent training program that focusses on immersion but it does not offer Bo Po Mo Fo.

The other thing I use is ABBYY fine-reader with Chinese character recognition and a screen reader program that turns everything I see in Rosetta into written text with a single mouse click.
Finally, I use IBM Viavoice Chinese. I dictate the sentences I hear i Rosetta . The goal is to repeat it till the software recognizes my speech and then save it for training the Viavoice software as well.
So Viavoice and I improve simultaneously, that's the idea .