Wenlin

[Guest guest]

 

How are the studies coming with Wenlin? Anyone else working with it

as a tool to study medical Chinese?

 

 

[Guest guest]

, " " <zrosenbe@s...>

wrote:

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> How are the studies coming with Wenlin? Anyone else working with it

> as a tool to study medical Chinese?

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I am using it now as a tool to help me go through Wiseman's Chinese Medical

Chinese (CMC). My process so far has been:

 

1. learn stroke order and character construction

 

2. Study the grammar section of CMC, practicing important characters such are

those for no and there and is and " to be " .

 

3. Begin to study chinese medical vocabulary as laid out in CMC and practice

drawing characters.

 

Wenlin helps with numbers 2 and 3 by substituting for a stroke order

dictionary. One can look up characters, read about their etymology and see

their stroke order graphically displayed and hear them pronounced.

 

I reinforce this more rote practice with my current plodding through the

Mitchell SHL. As I get more of a handle on vocabulary and familiarity with the

contents of the SHL, then I will attempt to read my unicode chinese SHL in

wenlin.

 

[Guest guest]

I use it fairly often to look up words and occasionally when I get a paper in

Chinese,

I'm able to get an idea of what it's about through Wenlin (but then ask a friend

to

translate if its what I want).

My one complaint about Wenlin as a study tool is the flashcard component which

seems akward. If it just did the cards and not the stroke tests I would be much

happier.

oh well.

doug

 

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> > as a tool to study medical Chinese?

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