Wenlin?

[skeptic yank]

hi. anybody out there have first hand acquaintance with Wenlin? Wenlin, as I hear tell, is a fabulous system for improving chinese? has anyone here used Wenlin?

[FearsomeOrange]

I have Wenlin for Macintosh. I use it for very basic translation, and I'm sure I'm not using it to its full capability. However, it gives good background on the characters, has good cross-references and can remember favourites.

If you have a Mac, PM me.

[Okami]

Wenlin is great imagine it as a dictionary that you can add to, you can search by radical and/or component which can be very handy for some characrters. I'd highly recommend it for the serious user or student of Chinese. The only problem is that it is expensive and a casual user may not be able to justify the cost. I also found the flashcard program wanting.

CYA,
Okami

[jdangu]

Hello,

I'm the author of a cheaper alternative to learn chinese characters,
it's called learn Chinese 2003 and you can find it here http://www.lchinese.com

Hope this helps

Regards,
Jerome

[igorveni]

Hello,

I'm the author of a cheaper alternative to learn Chinese characters,
it's called learn Chinese 2003 and you can find it here http://www.lchinese.com

Hope this helps

Regards,
Jerome

very nice, but can you make a Mac version? Please!

[cranky laowai]

I love Wenlin and use it often. Strongly recommended.

And although a few rough spots need to be worked out, there's also no better hanzi to pinyin converter than Wenlin.

[jdangu]

very nice, but can you make a Mac version? Please!

I'm sorry I don't know anything about programming on the Mac

[GongChangZhang]

Cranky laowai jsut introduce Wenlin to me.

I am currently playing around with the demo version and I think the program will be very useful. If your not sure why not downlload the demo to get a feel for it. If its what you want then purchase it.

[Shenme Niao]

Here we have the same folks reviewing two top softwares.
They like Wenlin better, but it costs 4x as much.

http://calico.org/CALICO_Review/review/clavis.htm
http://calico.org/CALICO_Review/review/Wenlin.htm

This one's new to me...
http://calico.org/CALICO_Review/review/chinesetutor.htm

I guess on the low end there is Dr. Eye and Babylon.

[cranky laowai]

Wenlin has released version 3.4. So those of you with the program may want to install the free upgrade.