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English-Chinese PAPER Dictionary recommendation? - -kiki- - 2012-01-22
Hello. I'm learning Chinese and planning to get a good English-Chinese paper dictionary. What I want it to have is:
1) Pinyin for all example sentences.
2) A lot of real/useful sentences.
I searched in the forum and found some nice online dictionaries. (Thank you!) But still, I'd like to get a paper dictionary so I can use it anytime anywhere. Then I found one called Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary, but it's for Chinese learners of English and has no pinyin, so I can't use it.
Could you recommend a good one for me?
(Hanzi is just like kanji and a large amount of the vocabulary comes from Chinese, so I consider myself lucky for being Japanese. I already have some Chinese-Japanese dictionaries and they're good. However, Chinese grammar is like half English and half Japanese, so knowing English does help learn Chinese. For example, if I were to look up "must" in Chinese, it'd be a lot more easier to use an E-C dictionary; I don't know what to do with a J-C one. Actually, Google Translate works much better with Chinese-English than Chinese-Japanese.)
English-Chinese PAPER Dictionary recommendation? - gdaxeman - 2012-01-22
Try this one: ABC English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary (by John Defrancis and Zhang Yanyin, 2010). There are examples of entries from the sample PDF at pinyn info.