Hello,

Beside Mandarin I lately started to learn Cantonese and now need a new electronic dictionary which would handle Cantonese a little bit more extensively than my current one.

As these things aren't cheap (+- 300$us) I decided to sell my current one, a Besta CD-859 on eBay and I wondered if any of you would be interested by it.

The Besta has literally thousands of function but I mainly use it for:

- Write a new character and see all the info about it (animated strokes order, pronunciation, Pinyin, Zhuyin, sentences...etc)
- To learn or understand particular grammar points
- Translate sentences (works much better than Google or Babelfish)
- Learn/Understand idioms

It has:

- Advanced Eng. & Chi learning tool.
- Touch panel with handwriting recognition in all.
- Chinese/Japanese/Korean and Eng. languages.
- 18 input methods (Zhuyin, Pinyin, Canjie...etc).
- 65,000 Cn words and phrases + 12,500 idioms.
- Jap-Chi/Chi-Jap Dictionary.
- Cambridge/Oxford Encyclopedia/Dictionary
- Strokes Order of Chinese Simplified/Traditional Characters, learn the way to write Chinese characters correctly.
- State-of-the art human voice pronunciation technology (Mandarin, Cantonese, English...etc)

If anyone from this forum win the auction, I offer the shipping!

http://goo.gl/7NhF

Thx in advance!

This sounds similar to the one Maksym has, and I was very impressed with it. He would use it all the time for everything and he learned a ton of Chinese and Japanese characters. These things are very powerful!

Hello Tortue!

>If anyone from this forum win the auction,
>I offer the shipping!

This would apply to Italy too? :-)

Gilberto

Unfortunatly it went too high for my current budget. :(

This looks awesome. If not for the fact that I already have several cheap e-dict plus my ipod touch and my android phone I would take the plunge.

The Chinese-learning software on Android market and the Apps Store for that matter are shallow, and not exactly specialized.

Maybe some certain awesome company could fill the gap(*hint hint*), a potential growth. I would lean toward Android market, as in the future it would rival the Apps Store (my Samsung Captivate kicks iphone 3gs's ass, as for Iphone 4, I didn't come away impressed, my opinion) and you could avoid all the hassles.

Any by software I mean other programs, not just skritter's core functions.

I would also recommend "youdao" dictionary to anyone who has write Chinese essay or just simply looking up contemporary ,slang words, available on both platforms for FREE!

Sorry for the sloppy grammar in the hasty last post. I tried to edit but apparently there isn't a edit button.

tungheim: the Pleco guys are working on an android version at the moment. But, there's already an ipod/iphone edition. If you haven't looked into it, do. It's in a class of its own.

I noticed one of my friends also has that so I am checking it out right now.

Thanks for the recommendation!