Trainslate Mandarin
Trainslate Mandarin
Trainslate Mandarin is an English to Mandarin/Pinyin vocabulary trainer based on the course IntegratedChinese 3rd edition by Cheng & Tsui. The software prints out sheets of vocabulary exercise that are personalized to your progress. Words and terms that you have difficulties remembering are asked repeatedly until you translate them properly.
Before you write down the translation of the English terms on paper, simply fold the page to hide the corresponding Pinyin and Mandarin simplified characters. To check your answers after you have completed the sheet just unfold the page. See the photo below. Feed the words and terms that you didn't get right back to the software interface by marking only those English terms that have been translated incorrectly.
| Trainslate (Java 1.6) * |
Trainslate.zip
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45 MB |
| List of Simplified Characters |
chinese_simplified...
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11 MB |
| Sample exercise sheet |
sample.pdf
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350 kB |
| Summary of grammar |
grammar.pdf
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200 kB |
| Pinyin audio of Google Translate (mp3) ** |
pinyin.zip
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4.3 MB |
Credits: Disposition, words and phrases are adopted from the course IntegratedChinese 3rd edition by Cheng & Tsui up to level 2 part 2. Other sources are the book Pop Chinese, handbook of contemporary colloquial expressions published also by Cheng & Tsui, and the Taiwan TV series 呼叫大明星. Thanks to 朱洁儒 for additional vocabulary and language practice. The Chinese calligraphic writings that ornament this page are by 谭亭序.
 print out sheets, fold paper
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 resolve English terms
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 unfold, correct Pinyin and Mandarin
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 feedback weaknesses to software
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Studying a foreign language has three fundamentals: |
Attitude decides everything. |
go bravely |
Besides the characters and vocabulary from the course IntegratedChinese 3rd edition, the database knows a few additional characters and expressions:
The list of radicals is extended by
Expressions with characters that have been introduced at an earlier point:
Provinces and major cities in China:
Famous people:
Proverbs:
One story says, there are only two animals that can arrive on the top of the pyramid: One is the eagle that can fly by wings and nature/gift/talent, the other that can reach the top is the snail. When it drops down it climbs again. But only if you are climbing you are (emotionally) moved when you recall those days of hard work/can give yourself time that makes yourself/life motivated.
俞敏洪
Utilities
Mandarin Browser allows you to search words and terms from the complete IntegratedChinese course.
Type an excerpt of an English word or Pinyin expression to list the matches.
Clicking on one of the matches appends the corresponding Chinese characters in the text area above.
The Chinese text can be copied to any other software that supports unicode.
The list of characters and expressions of Trainslate Mandarin is revised from time to time. You can retrieve the most recent edition in a single mouse click online.
Unihan browser allows you to list all characters that are associated to a specific Pinyin syllable.
Also, you can search for English expressions in the Unihan data base.
This feature requires to download
Unihan.zip
from the Unihan Database, and to extract the file unihan.txt to the folder mandarin/get/txt/.
The style of living should support life, 
If you smile, |
If you are determined to do it, |
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Install and launch for the first time
If the software runs, but some characters are displayed incorrectly, your operating system might not be configured yet to support Chinese characters. Search the Internet for more information specific to your operating system.
Trainslate Mandarin is a genuine product of Western Australia.
Successful people are always adventurous
not scared of failure, and make efforts. -
One hour of work,
is more than one day of dreaming!
The whole life of a person is a life of fighting/hard work, but someone has a great life, while another one has an ordinary life. If we have a great dream together with kind hearts, I believe, we can pile up a lot of trivial days and make it to form a great life. each one can pile up these day and have great life. If we lead an ordinary life everyday, without a dream and stop making progress, thus the days of your whole life that pile up will always be trivial/pale/not colorful in the future. Therefore, I hope all the students can pile up every common days to a great life.
俞敏洪
In China
In April 2012, my friend 王翰康 held his wedding in the vicinity of 宝鸡 (BaoJi). A week before the celebration, I met up with the couple in 杭州 (HangZhou). Arriving at 杭州 airport, I was without Chinese currency. The shuttle bus staff did not accept foreign exchange, but let me drive to the city for free! The city is famous for 西湖 (West lake). A real pitty that swimming is not allowed in the lake: the water is clean and has the perfect temperature. 上海 (ShangHai) is just a 2 hours bus ride away.
After the wedding celebration, I went to see 西安 (XiAn), a city that used to be the capital of China in XXX. From there, the 兵马俑 (Terracotta army) and the 华清池 (HuaQingChi) are only a hour away. Climbing 华山 (HuaShan) to a height of 2x90 was physically challenging, but the scenic views and rustic accomodation are special.
Since in the past, I met many people who originally came from 四川 (SiChuan), curiosity drove me to see 成都 (ChengDu). There is yet another famous mountain to climb 峨眉山 (EMei Mountain) with a height of 3099 m.
