qing wen, new iPhone app ::
:: from this TechCrunch post it appears Stanford’s “iPhone application programming class” (CS 193P) has released a free Chinese language learning / dictionary application called “Qing Wen” (as in “请问”). Qing Wen is described by developer / student Karan Misra as “an extremely focused and streamlined Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary designed with the Chinese reader in mind. Lookup is meant to be fast and easy. There is just one search field which accepts anything you throw at it – Chinese characters, Pinyin, and English – and figures out the most relevant results. Since Qingwen is meant for students of Chinese, you can also easily add words to word lists for future reference and discover relationship between characters by seeing which other words they occur in and which other characters have similar sounds. Qingwen uses a modified version of CC-CEDICT as its dictionary.” Click here (direct iTunes link) to download the application from the Apple App Store. // AjS
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Also check out lonely planet’s free offering, which is intended more for a tourist audience. It has dome merits of it’s own, namely audio which speaks the word in mandarin for those not familiar with pronunciation.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Look this webpage http://chinesepod.com/lessons/channels/list/qing+wen
So many “请问”
April 30th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I have used qingwen on my iPhone for months and I love it – the best is to be able to write a character I see in the street (that I do not know how to pronunce) and be able to know what it means, learn both simplified and traditional version and how to say it.
A must-have tool for learning Chinese!
Nicolas
http://www.chineseteachers.com
June 7th, 2009 at 3:47 am
great app!