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Reading practice

Schnabelhund   November 30th, 2013 12:55a.m.

Seems nice. Do they support traditional Chinese?

ricksh   December 11th, 2013 11:39p.m.

Thanks malaili.

Schnabelhund - doesn't support traditional, just tried importing some big5 and didn't work.

While some may like the option of putting pinyin below characters (but no tones?!), its parsing is off when asked to split characters into words, and links import doesn't work (at least for people.com.cn).

Think I'll stick with chrome zhongwen popup, as mandoread doesn't offer much more but is more inconvenient. Pleco reader parses better too and I might start using that on more difficult texts, but unfortunately no desktop client.

Anyone using anything else that is better? I still haven't found one (reading assistance program) I'm fully happy with. Keep meaning to try linq, is only other I know of.

Kryby   December 12th, 2013 1:37a.m.

If you have a mac, you can use Chinese Reader: http://www.byzanti.co.uk/

DependableSkeleton   December 12th, 2013 3:15a.m.

I use Wenlin everyday. At work I have to get through many documents quickly and Wenlin fills this very important niche for me. However, you should try Byzanti's Chinese Reader first since it's free and good too.

Byzanti   December 12th, 2013 6:58p.m.

And also supports Skritter vocab... :)

There's a lot I'd like to do with it, but work has rather put a dampener on any development for the moment. Sigh.

ricksh   December 13th, 2013 10:11a.m.

The screenshots of Chinese Reader look great, nice job Byzanti! ... but ... I don't have a mac :( Any easy way to run this on a pc in a virtualbox or something?

I've downloaded the demo of Wenlin to play with, thanks for that too - not ideal would pay $100 for ABC dictionary again (in part at least), same as Pleco ABC dictionary presumably. Love the FAQ on mobile versions (http://www.wenlin.com/faq#FE11)

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