Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese: A complete guide to Computer-aided Chinese Reading

Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese: A complete guide to Computer-aided Chinese Reading
Jul 14, 2008 21:07
guest12030	Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese is the first publication to advocate the idea of reading text in a foreign language without knowing or learning the language. Chinese written language is extremely difficult to learn. Its text does not consist of alphabetic letters, but is made up of characters built from strokes written in virtual rectangular boxes. One needs to memorize 3,000 characters and over 10,000 commonly used words to read newspapers. This takes native Chinese children 3 to 6 years to learn. For foreigners who do not use Chinese on a daily basis, the time needed is substantially longer. This book takes another approach. It shows that using the latest translation and OCR (optical character recognition) technologies, with a few other tools and know-how, it is completely feasible for someone with no knowledge of Chinese to read and understand text written in Chinese. Using the techniques described, one can read not only electronic text from websites and emails, but text on printed materials such as magazines, books and newspapers, or even from posters and street signs. This book provides detailed, step-by-step instructions anyone can follow in each stage of the process. It contains real-life examples demonstrating reading from magazines, newspapers and street signs. There is an accompanying website (www.GeorgeKung.com) providing updates, sample chapters, additional resources and other information.

Jul 14, 2008 21:07

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Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese is the first publication to advocate the idea of reading text in a foreign language without knowing or learning the language.

Chinese written language is extremely difficult to learn. Its text does not consist of alphabetic letters, but is made up of characters built from strokes written in virtual rectangular boxes. One needs to memorize 3,000 characters and over 10,000 commonly used words to read newspapers. This takes native Chinese children 3 to 6 years to learn. For foreigners who do not use Chinese on a daily basis, the time needed is substantially longer.

This book takes another approach. It shows that using the latest translation and OCR (optical character recognition) technologies, with a few other tools and know-how, it is completely feasible for someone with no knowledge of Chinese to read and understand text written in Chinese. Using the techniques described, one can read not only electronic text from websites and emails, but text on printed materials such as magazines, books and newspapers, or even from posters and street signs.

This book provides detailed, step-by-step instructions anyone can follow in each stage of the process. It contains real-life examples demonstrating reading from magazines, newspapers and street signs. There is an accompanying website (www.GeorgeKung.com) providing updates, sample chapters, additional resources and other information.

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