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Penpower Chinese Expert
A lifelong Chinese learning companion!
Are you struggling to catch up with the Chinese learning trend sweeping the world? Tired of those boring dialogs, those mundane textbooks? Penpower Chinese Expert provides a comprehensive Chinese learning environment by immersing you in a Mandarin listening and speaking environment.
Penpower Chinese Expert lets you learn Mandarin from any source such as Chinese web sites, books, newspapers or magazines, in either simplified or traditional Chinese, in addition to our expertly selected lessons. Unlike other Chinese learning CDs or DVDs which you will probably throw away after a few months, Penpower Chinese Expert uses revolutionary intelligent software built with Penpower's latest award-winning technologies in phrase segmentation, speech recognition, text to speech, optical character recognition, handwriting and even machine translation. It's software you will keep for years to come.
There is no limit to how much you can learn when using this Penpower Chinese Expert. It trains your listening comprehension with clearly pronounced text; your speech ability with instant speech recognition, correction feedback and oral exams; your reading comprehension with an onscreen phrase dictionary and online dictionary; your handwriting skills with handwriting recognition technology. Penpower Chinese Expert also encourages and facilitates a user community, where you can share with others your learning materials by packing your recording, your translation and any notes you take in a convenient file. Just download these fun and dynamic learning materials. You’re guaranteed that learning Mandarin will be an enjoyable and rewarding journey. On top of that, we also guarantee your satisfaction by offering lifetime software upgrades free of charge; you will always have the latest and the greatest software. Penpower Chinese Expert is truly a lifetime learning companion!
The latest version of PCE provides you:
1. User-defined dictionary - You can edit some specific vocabulary into your own user-defined dictionary. Building your own database in this dictionary can remind you anytime. It is your extra lifelong learning dictionary.
2. UDD community for sharing - UDD community is a learning sphere, sharing everyone’s defined-dictionary. User can find any extra vocabulary database to increase your own database. Save time and share experience together.
3. Export Recording to MP3 File - Exporting your Recording to MP3 makes it easy to use with an iPod or other mp3 player. It lets you learn Chinese anytime and anywhere.
4. Translation Mode allows the user to edit related explanatiosn - Using translation mode to edit your own English translation.
You will find the Penpower Chinese Expert to be the most innovative method to learn Chinese.
| Penpower Chinese Expert [ Writing Pad Version ] |
[ $20.00 Manufacturer's Mail-in Rebate ] | ||||||
Product Overview Penpower Chinese Expert is a complete Chinese learning tool. With the writing pad, you can write or modify any Chinese text easily and use Penpower Chinese Expert for listening comprehension, reading, speaking, writing, and translation. For East Asian languages, handwriting is the most natural way to enter characters into a computer. If you do not know any keyboard-based input methods, such as hanyu pinyin, or zhuyin, then inputting by handwriting is definitely for you.
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Schools, colleges, universities, government agencies and non-profit organizations qualify for academic pricing. |
The three main user-friendly interfaces are designed to help users access and understand the functions of Penpower Chinese Expert, making learning Chinese easier and faster.
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Chinese-English Translation Interface |
Sentence Segmentation Interface |
Phrase Database Management |
Handwriting Recognition
Our software can recognize any stroke order when writing a character—no particular stroke order is required. It can even recognize near-illegible writing. It can also be used together with software application such as Office 2007/XP. You can use the writing pad to edit an existing file or create a new document with ease.
Unicode Recognition
Support Unicode system to display Traditional and Simplified Chinese easily.
| Listening Comprehension We employ the latest TTS (Text to Speech), and intelligent syntax technology, so you can listen to the correct pronunciation of single characters, phrases or sentences. It can also record pronunciation from real people so you can review real pronunciation at any time. Before long, your ears will be as discriminating as any native Mandarin speakers’. |
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| Reading Have trouble reading books, newspapers or magazines on hand? Scan them into PC with our pen scanner, our software will show you everything about unknown Chinese characters such as their pinyin/zhuyin, their radicals, total number of strokes etc. and their meaning in English. You also have on-demand bidirectional English and Chinese dictionary. |
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| Speaking With our speech recognition technology, you can practice speaking Chinese phrases or taking quizes with your PC and be confident that you will sound more and more like a native Chinese speaker after each session. |
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| Writing We will show you how to write any Chinese character in the correct stroke order. We also provide you with alternative inputting methods for your composing pleasure: You can use hanyu pinyin, zhuyin or strokes when you write an essay or a report in Chinese. |
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| Translation We use a state-of-the-art machine translation module for your exploration of the Chinese language. You can translate between Chinese and English by word, phrases or whole sentences. You can learn more by playing more. |
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[ Hardware Specifications ]
- Dimension (WxHxD): 4.33"x0.86"x3.54" (110×22×90 mm)
- Weight: (4.3 oz.) (110g)
- Writing area : 2.2"x1.8" (55×45 mm)
[ System Requirements ]
- Intel Pentium processor or compatible
- 64MB of RAM
- 150MB of available hard disk space
- Windows 2000/XP/vista
- USB port
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