How I Study Chinese Online
Programs I use:
- Lingoes – this allows you to highlight words on screen for instant translation (written: English / spoken: Chinese). Below are the elements you need to make it work.
- Essential dictionaries:
- Vicon Chinese-English – This is essential for PinYin tones
- Vicon English Chinese
- CEDICT – Another dictionary necessary for PinYin help
- 21 Century English-Chinese Bidirectional Dictionary – Large amount of terms to double check your translations
- Install all dictionaries under Index and Text Capture
- For Index I have, in order:
- Vicon
- CEDict
- 21 Century
- For Capture I have, in order:
- Vicon
- 21 Century
- CEDict
- Instant Translation
- The best Audio Translator I found (female) was here:
- Chinese Text to Audio – Download, install and it will appear on your list of speech options
- Essential dictionaries:
After this is all installed, you should be able to right click on your bird (in lower corner of your screen) and check off: Translate selected text. Now, whenever you highlight selected text it will read it to you. Chinese text will be read aloud (in Chinese) and a little pop up (the Instant Translation) will appear over your highlighted words and translate it into English for you as you listen to the Chinese!
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