tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41667008923667198342024-03-06T05:15:11.143+01:00Boost your Chinese with freeware Pablo and PingridEmmanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02330287735402440174noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166700892366719834.post-45225141603127781892020-09-21T09:14:00.000+01:002020-10-14T14:52:59.736+01:00Pablo and Pingrid have moved<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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See you there!Emmanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02330287735402440174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166700892366719834.post-63086435139528253182020-04-08T16:39:00.000+01:002020-04-09T16:41:24.823+01:00Pablo gets an updateGood news for Pablo users, the program gets an upgrade. Version <b>2.15</b> contains various improvements and 2 main features.<br />
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<b>Upgrade in handwriting recognition</b><br />
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I have worked to improve the recognition. It is especially noticeable if you write in a cursive form, that is, by linking together some of the strokes, as often happens in natural handwriting.<br />
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<b>Improved definition area</b><br />
When displaying info for a single character, the definition character now shows the alternate pinyins of the same character, as well as the most frequent words using the character. In addition, Chinese characters in the definition area now work as hyperlinks: clicking on them searches the word directly.
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See you there!Emmanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02330287735402440174noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166700892366719834.post-31660689311445405602011-12-01T15:32:00.002+01:002020-10-14T14:53:15.136+01:00Learning Chinese -- PABLO, my personal Chinese dictionary<table><tbody>
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<br /></td><td><span style="font-size: 130%;">Introducing <b><span style="color: #3333ff;">Pablo</span></b></span><br />
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A treat for Chinese learning beginners: <b>a compact, nifty, featured-packed and <span style="color: #330099;">free </span>Chinese-English dictionary for Windows.</b> <br />
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Pablo is probably the best Chinese-English dictionary alternative for beginners.<br />
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<b>Unrivaled search features</b> </div>
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<b>Popup definitions in other programs</b> <br />
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<b>Based on the acclaimed CEDICT database, over 90,000 entries.</b> <br />
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Later, Pingrid version 2 introduced a powerful <strong>spaced repetition model</strong>, to detect the words <strong>you</strong> need to train and therefore make your learning time 100% useful.<br />
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From the start, what makes Pingrid unique is that it is completely geared toward learning Chinese vocabulary.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Version 3 takes Pingrid to a new dimension, with handwriting traing!</span> </strong></span>It combines two activities to memorize your Chinese vocabulary.<br />
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<strong>Its power: super fast training</strong>. Priceless when you are serious about learning and have sizeable vocabulary to absorb.</td><td></td><td><strong>Handwriting</strong> is new in Pingrid version 3: you have to draw characters with the mouse!<br />
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<strong>And Pingrid's adaptive, spaced repetition model</strong> directs your effort to the words that do need repetition. <strong>No more cramming, your training time is 100% useful.</strong><br />
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Pablo version 2.5a introduces support for the HanDeDict Chinese-German dictionary and for the CFDICT Concept Chinese-French dictionary. Both are great collective-effort dictionaries.<br />
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<b>HanDeDict user guide</b><br />
Download the dictionary from: <a href="http://www.chinaboard.de/chinesisch_deutsch.php?mode=dl">www.chinaboard.de</a><br />
Unzip and copy the dictionary file handedict.u8 or handedict_nb.u8 to Pablo's data directory.<br />
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Fermer Pablo. Créer un fichier vide appelé cfdict.u8 dans le répertoire data. Au redémarrage, Pablo téléchargera le dictionnaire automatiquement.<br />
Vous pouvez aussi télécharger vous-même le dictionnaire sur: <a href="http://www.chine-informations.com/mandarin/open/CFDICT/">www.chine-informations.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.chine-informations.com/chinois/open/CFDICT/download.php"></a>Copier le fichier cfdict.u8 dans le répertoire data de Pablo.<br />
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The German or French dictionary will be recognized automatically and you get Pablo's great search features with HanDeDict or CFDICT contents!<br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Download locations for dictionaries (for manual update):</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999;">English: https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/export/cedict/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.zip</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999;">Français: http;//haton.free.fr/pingrid/cfdictc.u8</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999;">Deutsch: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zydeo/HanDeDict/master/handedict_nb.u8</span>Emmanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02330287735402440174noreply@blogger.com1