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Erikssc -

I am looking to buy an electronic pocket dictionary designed for english speakers studying
mandarin. I think most dictionaries found in electronic shops are mainly for Chinese students
studying english. The problem with most of them is that when writing pinyin words containing more
than one character, it won't understand. I.e. if you write "jintian" which contains two characters
it won't be able to translate. You have to write "jin" first, select the character, and then write
"tian" and select the character. This is of course basically worthless for us. I see many of the
korean and japanese students have good dictionaries, but they are mostly bought in their home
countries.
So my question is, where in Beijing can u buy electronic dictionaries that are made for english
speakers studying Chinese?



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Nibble -

A lot of people buy a PDA and install PlecoDict on it. It's much better than most dedicated pocket
dictionaries you'll find, plus it has all the nice features of a PDA.










crow610 -

PlecoDict is the best! I am in China now studying at BNU and this dictionary has been a lifesaver.
Lots of people are amazed by the power of this program when they see how fast I can look up a
character. You can probably find an old palm on ebay for around 100 that will support Pleco.










crow610 -

I was just looking at the BNU thread and realized that you are studying at BNU also. If you would
like to meet up so I can show you the program PM me and we can arragne a time and place.










hughitt1 -

have you checked ebay? i never had any problems before ordering stuff off ebay in mainland..










smalltownfart -

If you only care about the lookup and don't think you need the other functionality in plecodict,
you might want to take a look at my (free!) dictionary for the Pocket PC:

http://china.panlogicsoftware.com










KungFoo -

I also want to get one. I heard that a good place to go to is zhongguancun up near Beida. You can
get the good ones by a company called Besta which has everything we would need but they are hard
to get a hold of. I wanted to go down there and investigate today.

I also heard good things about getting a PDA with dictionry programs installed. I will look into
that if my exploits are not fruitful.

Bestas can be bought online, and the good ones can do the things that your PDA can too, it plays
mp3s, surfs the net, and acts as a calendar and diary etc...

If anyone finds something in Beijing, please share.










adrianlondon -

I have a Besta, but I've given it to my boyfriend. It was fine, but the monochrome LCD display can
be hard to see. They do make colour ones, but at those prices it's not much more expensive to buy
a Palm and install Plecodict. I have a Palm TX and Plecodict if anyone wants to see it (on BNU
campus).

Besta is a Taiwanese company (so the products might be marked "made in China" :-) and is in
traditional characters by default. Although good, they are designed for chinese to learn English
rather than the other way around, so expect some things to be a touch complicated. Having said all
that, they do work and they work well.










Erikssc -

Thanks for all your answers. After having been shown the functions of the Pleco programme on a
Palm I will definitely be looking into buying one of those. I guess there are lots of places to
buy a PDA in Beijing, but what about the operating system? Will it be in Chinese, or can u choose
the language yourself? Any experiences with this?










karmakid -

Ok I'm impressed.
Next Question is; where in BJ do i buy my pocketPC ?
cheap, preferably wlan... not interested in --> BT, Ir etc...












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