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Wenlin v 3.0
- Chinese Learning Software
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from Wenlin Institute, Inc.
"Wenlin is a
comprehensive tool for both beginner and advanced students. As a Chinese
linguist and educator, I'm amazed by Wenlin. I really recommend this
product!"--Dr. Tim Xie, UC Davis
What is
new!
Features
in detail:
Powerful Dictionary Interface
- Instant Look-Up
Detailed Information -
Powerful Text Editor
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New Font Support
Character Input - Tutorial System
- The "mouth" tool
NEW Unicode 3.1 Support
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NEW Macintosh Support
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Powerful "Flashcards" System
Powerful Learning
Tools
Illustrations of
Wenlin Software - System
Requirements
Wenlin is CD-ROM
software for the Macintosh, MS-Windows, and DOS operating systems. Wenlin
tackles the most frustrating obstacles for students, scholars, and speakers
of Chinese with its versatile and easy-to-use interface. It is like having a
seasoned scholar on your desktop! An integrated solution, Wenlin combines a
high-speed expandable Chinese dictionary, a full-featured text editor, and
unique "flashcard" system all in one intuitive
environment.
It is a comprehensive tool for beginning students, life-long
speakers, and scholars alike. Wenlin includes the huge
ABC Chinese-English
Dictionary edited by John DeFrancis.
Other improvements include the new toolbar, MS-Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
support, Cut and Paste between applications, easier typing for pinyin, Apple
CLK support, and more.
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New
Dictionary contains almost 200,000 entries
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Look Up
by Radical
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New Font
Support
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Standard
Windows/Mac interface
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Improved
Stroke control
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Document
Format and Printing improvements
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Flexible
handwriting recognition
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Dictionary switching
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Unicode
3.1
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OS X
Native for Mac
Wenlin's unique interface provides instant "point to" vocabulary look-up and
"click" access to detailed vocabulary information. Wenlin's extensive
character descriptions and cross-referencing include pictures of characters
in ancient and modern forms, simple and full form, and pinyin.
Wenlin reads, writes, edits, and prints Chinese documents of any size and
includes built-in selection of Chinese literature and current media. Unicode,
GB, Big5, UTF-8 and HZ Encoding are supported. Automated drill and review
includes scoring, tracking, interactive testing, multiple-choice and
composed-answer. Other powerful features include animated stroke-by-stroke
display, handwriting recognition, and audio-CD quality studio recordings of
all Mandarin syllables. Multi-user packs are available.
We've added a bigger and better Chinese-English dictionary with close
to 200,000 entries (nearly three times as many as in version 2), and many
other improvements to the definitions, such as measure words for nouns.
The famous sinologist John DeFrancis is the editor of this greatly revised
and expanded edition of his original ABC Dictionary.

Wenlin's "instant look-up" gives you the ability to look up any word or
character in any Chinese electronic text simply by pointing to it. You can
look up words and characters by pronunciation (pinyin), by handwriting
recognition, by stroke count, and by components (or radicals).

You can modify dictionary entries and add new ones. NEW commands in the
List menu enable looking up characters using the traditional 214 radicals,
which you can see listed either in their traditional order or in a new
order that takes into account variant and simplified forms and modern
classifications of stroke types and stroke counts. Under each radical you
can see its list of characters, ordered by residual stroke count.

Click on a character or select a compound word for detailed vocabulary
information. Extensively cross-referenced character descriptions include
pictures of ancient, modern, simple and full form characters. Each
character entry is linked to listings of all the compound words that
contain the character, including definitions, ordered by frequency of
usage. Lists of characters by stroke-count and by pronunciation, and
groups of characters that share components, are also instantly accessible.

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Reads, writes, edits, and prints Chinese documents
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Supports Unicode format, the most widely recognized world standard, as
well as GB, Big5, UTF-8 and HZ
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Built-in selection of Chinese literature, current new media included
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Word-wrap, undo, cut, copy, paste, search, and replace
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Unlimited document size
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Characters and words entered using phonetic conversion or handwriting
recognition
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Instant dictionary integrated with text editor
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Combines simple and full form Chinese characters, pinyin, and English in
one document
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Compatible with other Chinese language applications, pen/tablet tools
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NEW Printing feature: Now you can specify the sizes of the margins (left/right/top/bottom),
in either inches or centimeters, optionally have page breaks shown on the
screen, and optionally have page numbers printed at the bottom of each
page. These features use new Page Setup and Paginate commands in the File
menu.

The built-in Chinese font is in the classical Song dynasty style and is
scalable to look good even on high-resolution printers. The "Size" menu
now gives much higher magnifications. Support is also provided for
external Unicode TrueType fonts, for Chinese, English, and Pinyin.

Characters can be entered using pinyin or handwriting
recognition. Simple and full form Chinese characters, pinyin, and English
can even be combined in one document. NEW Handwriting recognition box: new
options let you customize its behavior. You can move its window anywhere
on the screen, re-size it, and make it stay open until you close it. You
can make it ignore stroke-order, and make it give you a choice between all
the characters that are most similar to the one you have written.

Wenlin's "flashcards" provide automated drill and review, with
multiple-choice and composed-answer testing phases. The dictionary is
always accessible while using flashcards to memorize characters. In fact,
Wenlin supports simultaneous display of documents, dictionary entries,
lists, and flashcards to further enhance study.

lets you hear a high-quality studio recording of the Mandarin
pronunciation of any character, in a man and a woman's voice. NEW
Dictionary switching: to support users of version 2 who have customized
their copies of the dictionary, Wenlin 3 lets you switch back and forth
easily between two or more dictionaries. It also enables extracting
modified entries from one dictionary and importing them into another, so
you can obtain all the benefits of the new version without losing any
improvements you have made to the dictionary in the old version.

In addition to the twenty thousand Chinese characters in
the original Unicode character set, the latest version of the
international standard has codes for nearly fifty thousand more Chinese
characters.

Wenlin runs as a native OS X application, and also can still run on OS
8 or 9, and uses Navigation Services to provide more convenient dialog
boxes for opening and saving files.

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Automated drill and review
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Interactive testing, multiple-choice and composed-answer
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Scoring and tracking
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Dictionary access while memorizing vocabulary
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Simultaneous display of documents, definitions, lists, and flashcards

Use the "hand" tool for looking up vocabulary, the "I-beam"
for selecting text, and the "grabber" for quickly copying text. The "brush"
tool, for handwriting recognition, makes practicing and identifying
characters much easier. The "stroking box" assists writing through
animated stroke-by-stroke display of over 10,000 characters. NEW! Stroking
box displays characters stroke-by-stroke in the beautiful Song dynasty
style, appears in its own window with improved arrangement of controls,
enables choosing foreground and background colors and even independently
adjusting the horizontal and vertical thicknesses of strokes.

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Instant Look-up
With Wenlin, by pointing at any Chinese word on the screen,
you can see the definition in English. In this illustration, the student is
pointing at the first character in the two-character Chinese phrase meaning
'once upon a time'.
If you were using Wenlin right now (instead of just
looking at a picture of Wenlin), you could point to any of the Chinese words
and see its English definition just as easily. This works with practically
any Chinese text which you could find anywhere in electronic form (including
Chinese texts which you can download from the Internet).
By clicking on a word (rather than just pointing to it),
you can easily access more detailed information.
Chinese Character Definitions
Wenlin's electronic dictionary includes pictures of ancient and modern forms
of Chinese characters, along with explanations, to help you understand and
remember the shapes of Chinese characters.

Here we see that the Chinese character for 'day' is also
the character for 'heaven' and 'sky', and it originally depicted a human
figure.
By clicking on the pronunciation (which is tian,
pronounced in the high level tone), you could hear recordings of the
pronunciation (in both male and female voices) (Wenlin includes recordings
of all the Mandarin syllables).
Below the explanation, two "triangle buttons" are visible.
By clicking on the triangle labeled "stroke... (4 strokes)" you could see
how to write the character stroke-by-stroke. (Wenlin can display over ten
thousand different characters, using their conventional stroke orders.)
Another triangle button gives you the option of viewing a
list of all the Chinese characters which contain the 'heaven' character as a
component. This kind of list can help you learn the differences between
similar looking characters.
Other interesting and useful features are available by
scrolling down and clicking on more triangle buttons.
Listing Words and Phrases Containing a
Character
By clicking on the button for listing all the words and
phrases containing a character, you can see a list like this one for the 'day'
character:

The entire list has 490 items in it (in version 1.0 it had 67 -- how's that
for an improvement?); only the first few are shown here. The list is ordered
by frequency of usage, with the most common vocabulary at the top. Notice
the words for 'today' and 'tomorrow'. An ordinary dictionary would not list
these words under the character for 'day', because 'day' is not the first
character in the word. (If you prefer, you can also list words and phrases
starting with a character, in alphabetical order, like an ordinary
dictionary.) But Wenlin lists mingtian 'tomorrow' under both the
characters ming and tian. If you wanted to know more about the
first character, ming, you could simply click on it (--if you were
actually using Wenlin, instead of just looking at an illustration on the
Web).
Suppose you'd like to see some examples of how the word
for 'tomorrow' is used. You could invoke Wenlin's Search Files
feature to search through a huge collection of Chinese literature for
examples.
Searching Files for Examples of Usage
This is what you would see if you used Search Files to find examples
of mingtian 'tomorrow' in a collection of stories and essays by the
famous 20th-century author Lu Xun, if you suspended the search after four
occurrences had been found. (You can suspend a search at any time, and then
resume it at any time.) The window displays the name of each file, the
position of the occurrence, and the line that contains the occurrence. To
open one of the files and see the full context of an occurrence, you could
click on the triangle button next to the file name.

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- Mouse (or pointing device)
- CD-ROM drive (while running initially or installing)
- 500 megabytes on hard drive (for optional complete
installation)
- 32 megabytes RAM (in addition to RAM needed by the operating
system)
- Any of these operating systems: Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, Me, 2000, NT4,
98, or 95; Apple MacOS X or 9 (Macintosh users please note: Wenlin may or may
not still work on System 8)
A CD-ROM drive is required for installation, but afterwards it
is no longer required. Alternatively, Wenlin can always be run
directly from the CD, in which case installation is unnecessary,
and only a few megabytes of hard drive space are used while Wenlin
is running.
For GNU/Linux, please see our Wenlinux page.
We formerly supported DOS, but not any more. We intend to support more operating systems
in the future.
Wenlin is compatible with Chinese versions of MacOS and
MS-Windows, and with the Apple Chinese Language Kit, but does not
require any of these.
Running Wenlin Software on GNU/Linux
Wenlin currently runs "natively" only on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh
computers; for details see the following
System Requirements:
- Mouse (or pointing device)
- CD-ROM drive (while running initially or installing)
- 500 megabytes on hard drive (for optional complete
installation)
- 32 megabytes RAM (in addition to RAM needed by the operating
system)
- Any of these operating systems: Microsoft Windows XP, Me, 2000,
NT4, 98, or 95; Apple MacOS X or 9 (Macintosh users please note:
Wenlin may or may not still work on System 8)
A CD-ROM drive is required for installation, but afterwards it
is no longer required. Alternatively, Wenlin can always be run
directly from the CD, in which case installation is unnecessary,
and only a few megabytes of hard drive space are used while Wenlin
is running.
For GNU/Linux, please see our Wenlinux page.
We formerly supported DOS, but not any more. We intend to support more operating systems
in the future.
Wenlin is compatible with Chinese versions of MacOS and
MS-Windows, and with the Apple Chinese Language Kit, but does not
require any of these.
We intend to support other operating systems, such as
GNU/Linux and BSD, eventually. We formerly supported DOS, but not any more.
Wenlin is compatible with Chinese versions of MacOS and
MS-Windows, and with the Apple Chinese Language Kit, but does not require
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