Using PalmOS-device to help you learning Chinese

[pazu]

The best dictionary on PalmOS so far, for learning Chinese, should be the Oxford Concise English & Chinese Dictionary for Palm OS (US$49.95), you can download the demo from http://www.pleco.com/download.html

For every Chinese character there's the pinyin next to it, the Chinese-English dictionary seems to be weak but you can enter the characters by handwriting (engine from Motorala, never tried yet), radicals, or just by any other input method you can find from (e.g.) CJKOS or CHOS. The dictionary has its own font so you don't need to invest for a Chinese add-on system.

If you just want to check out the Chinese translation of an English word, you can do it by the free KDIC plus some free dictionaries, I'm using the 168000 one which claimed to have 168,000 vocabs. You can get it from http://www.brando.com.hk/ (search 168000 and kdic).

Bdicty from Beiks LLC (http://www.beiks.com/) has some good dictionaries but I don't know where I can get some demos, the free dictionaries are Chinese-non-related. I like the Dreams dictionary. What does that imply if you dream of snowing last night? You don't need to be Freud to impress your friends, just use the free Dreams dictionary. Okay, I'm a bit off-topic now.

Do you have some other tips for learning Chinese using a PalmOS device? Or anyone here got a Palm device?

More tips will be coming.

[roddy]

I'm looking at buying a handheld and the Oxford dictionary. At the moment I'm just trying to figure out which exact handheld I need, that's the difficult bit - seems that anything with PalmOS and 8MB (I'm going to want ALL the fonts and stuff) will do, but maybe I need a more expensive model because . . . well, because I like new toys.

What do you mean when you say the Chinese-English dictionary seems to be weak?

Roddy

[skylee]

I have a sony PDA but not a dictionary in it (am a very miserly person not willing to spend anything on PDA software). I usually use it to read novels and listen to MP3 (apart from all the regular diary functions). I don't mind having a free dictionary in it, though.