I forgot when but I was looking at a thread and someone posted a link to some program that would translated whatever Chinese word I selected. I have a rudimentary knowledge of Chinese and I want to read the news online to help improve it, but I'm kind a stuck since I have no one to ask when I see a word I don't know.
It's called DLTool. Whenever you press Ctrl+C (copy) on your computer, it will tell you the English definition as well as pin yin pronunciation. In other words, it's a dictionary/translator without the need of going to translating websites, as it's a an executable program. Here's the link: http://dltool.sourceforge.net/ Or if you just want to skip that and go straight to the download, here's the download linK: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dltool/dltool-install-1.2.exe?download
Perhaps. It's always so hard to find materials that let you learn Cantonese, as there's so much emphasis on learning Mandarin these days (ie. with foreigners wanting to do business in China). There is a good site: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/ which has a pretty thorough English-Chinese dictionary with Jyutping. Although it's not a program, I have quick access to it as I've bookmarked it in my tabs on my internet browser .
I don't understand. Does that mean you can install the dltool; go to a Chinese website, highlight the word, and press Ctrl-C? Anyways, i'll try it when i get home today. But just curious ...
YES. In fact, it's not limited to your internet browser. Anytime you press the COPY function (Ctrl+C) on your computer, whether it is in a word document, Adobe PDF document, ID3 tag-editting with iTunes, etc., the program will read the highlighted text and translate for you.
Yes, and that's what I already mentioned before - that it's PINYIN and not JYUTPING. You should use it along with: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/ Once you have a better grasp for basic-general-commonly used characters, DLTool will be handy especially for combination of two-three character words.
