Guest guest Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 > " Bob Damone " <bdamone > Wed May 28, 2003 12:04:18 PM US/Pacific > " '' " < > Cc: " '' " < > RE: unicode files > > > Another thing, this seems to be in classical Chinese, which presents a > host of problems for the beginner (and advanced student). Wenlin, for > example, is not the best source for translating Classical Chinese. It > picks up compound words that may not have been intended in the original > and does not always have the most accurate definitions for classical > vocabulary. > > I think it would be better to start with simpler modern text. bob is right, however one can read the characters singly as in the classic texts with wenlin. its just a bit more tedious, as you have to open the dictionary definition of each character. perhaps an update of wenlin would let you turn off the compound character reading feature. maybe it can already do this. But they are too hard for me regardless. Chinese Herbs " Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds " -- Albert Einstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 > > > > I think it would be better to start with simpler modern text. > > bob is right, however one can read the characters singly as in the classic > texts with wenlin. its just a bit more tedious, as you have to open the > dictionary definition of each character. perhaps an update of wenlin > would let you turn off the compound character reading feature. maybe it > can already do this. But they are too hard for me regardless. and too hard for most Chinese - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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