Learning Chinese -- PABLO, my personal Chinese dictionary
| Introducing Pablo A treat for Chinese learning beginners: a compact, nifty, featured-packed and free Chinese-English dictionary for Windows. Pablo is probably the best Chinese-English dictionary alternative for beginners. |
- English, Chinese and pinyin
- Search a character from its radical
- (exclusive!) Find a character from its various elements
- Simplified and traditional characters
- Quick navigation (no java, no long downloads!)
- Handwritten character recognition
- The best collection of character animations (4,500 characters!)
- Navigate through search results with one click
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| Get the installer from the Download box in the left part of the page. This is a self-extracting file that installs or updates Pablo automatically. |
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| How to get the Chinese voice to work. You need to install the voice engine with the Microsoft Chinese voice. For step-by-step instructions, look here. |
| Finally, if you haven't yet, be sure to check out Pingrid, a fun and effective game to train your Chinese vocabulary. |

