Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese + Dictionary (Win + Mac!)

From the site of the Wenlin Institute (wenlin.com):

Wenlin is CD-ROM software for the Macintosh and MS-Windows operating systems. Wenlin tackles the most frustrating obstacles for students, scholars, and speakers of Chinese with its versatile and easy-to-use interface. It is like having a seasoned scholar on your desktop! An integrated solution, Wenlin combines a high-speed expandable Chinese dictionary, a full-featured text editor, and unique "flashcard" system all in one intuitive environment. Wenlin is a comprehensive tool for begining students, life-long speakers, and scholars alike. Wenlin 3 includes an expanded and improved version of the already huge ABC Chinese-English Dictionary edited by John DeFrancis, giving it a total of over 10,000 characters and approximately 200,000 words and phrases.

Wenlin's unique interface provides instant "point to" vocabulary look-up and "click" access to detailed vocabulary information. Wenlin's extensive character descriptions and cross-referencing include pictures of characters in ancient and modern forms, simple and full form, and pinyin. Wenlin reads, writes, edits, and prints Chinese documents of any size and includes built-in selection of Chinese literature and current media. You can copy and paste Chinese text between Wenlin and other applications. Unicode, GB, Big5, and UTF-8 Encodings are supported. Automated drill and review includes scoring, tracking, interactive testing, multiple-choice and composed-answer. Other powerful features include animated stroke-by-stroke display, handwriting recognition, and audio-CD quality studio recordings of all Mandarin syllables. Multi-user packs are available.
The Power of Wenlin
Dictionary Interface

* High speed customizable and expandable Chinese dictionary
* Over ten thousand characters, seventy-four thousand words and phrases
* Instant "point to" vocabulary look-up
* Click access to essential vocabulary info
* Extensive character descriptions and cross-referencing
* Pictures of ancient and modern forms of Chinese characters
* Desktop access to important Chinese scholarship and literature
* Click access to all words that contain a character, including definitions, ordered by frequency of usage
* Character look-up by component, including groups that share components
* Fast automatic search access to huge selection of literature, for finding examples in context
* Character lists arranged by stroke-count and pronunciation
* Automatically updated listing

Text Editor

* Reads, writes, edits, and prints Chinese documents
* Supports Unicode format, the most widely recognized world standard, as well as GB, Big5, UTF-8 and HZ
* Built-in selection of Chinese literature, current new media included
* Word-wrap, undo, cut, copy, paste, search, and replace
* Unlimited document size
* Characters and words entered using phonetic conversion or handwriting recognition
* Instant dictionary integrated with text editor
* Combines simple and full form Chinese characters, pinyin, and English in one document
* Compatible with other Chinese language applications, pen/tablet tools

"Flashcards" System

* Automated drill and review
* Interactive testing, multiple-choice and composed-answer
* Scoring and tracking
* Dictionary access while memorizing vocabulary
* Simultaneous display of documents, definitions, lists, and flashcards

Learning

* Animated Stroke-By-Stroke Display
* Instant Handwriting Recognition
* Audio-CD quality studio recordings of all Mandarin syllables

Download:

For Win:

http://rapidshare.com/files/29033274/WenlinWin336.part01.rar.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/18837104/WenlinWin336.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18837516/WenlinWin336.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/16547202/WenlinWin336.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/29032884/WenlinWin336.part05.rar.zip

(Take care, part01 and part05 are re-zipped after they were deleted from RS, as RS does not accept an unchanged reupload of files deleted. So download all the 5 part, first unzip part01.rar.zip and part05.rar.zip, and then unzip all the five .rar files together.)

For Mac:

http://rapidshare.com/files/14665669/Wenlin3Mac.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/14695614/Wenlin3Mac.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/14710349/Wenlin3Mac.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/14722312/Wenlin3Mac.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/14737318/Wenlin3Mac.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/14741845/Wenlin3Mac.part6.rar

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