A cool book I found today.
sarahjs
June 30, 2008, 05:15 PM posted in General DiscussionA really cool Chinese dictionary
I found this today. and I am so excited. It's basically a Bilingual picture dictionary, with the chinese words, a few phrases, and some extra vocab.
It has almost everything in it, including the parts of the toilet! So if you like 手銬 （Shou3kao4)， but prefer 消防隊員(xiao1fang2dui4yuan3) to 警官 (jing3guan1) this is the book to have. Wonder if Chinese Pod would have a lesson on these things???
(I think this book will be a great ACCOMPLEMENT to Chinese pod, and possibly help with suggestions.)
eupnea63355
October 13, 2010, 12:54 PMI actually own the dictionary referred to in the original post, but rarely use it because it is so so so tiny for bad eyes like mine. It's beautiful though, and a treasure. I think I found mine at the "sale" shelves in a Border's Books.
I tend to frequently get into study slumps so now and then will make my own page of a visual dictionary. For example, get a diagram of a bicycle, say, from wiki. Then draw arrows and look up the English terms. Then, go find every Chinese heritage person I know - my Chinese supermarket checkout person, my favorite sushi maker, the Chinese girl who works at my local bookstore, etc., and one-by-one get those words translated.
That reminds me, a young man who used to wait tables at my local Chinese restaurant is now an auto mechanic. Ah, what a goldmine for auto related vocabulary!
bazza
July 02, 2008, 04:05 PMMy copy arrived today and I have to say it is absolutely fantastic. It even has masking tape in it, which is 遮蔽胶带. :)
hanyuxuesheng
July 02, 2008, 07:48 PMIt's colorful, but mostly it contains nouns, nearly no verbs.
sarahjs
July 02, 2008, 10:46 PMBazza, see I just flicked throught it. But I like the shopping and the food parts, It's got the countries at the back. Never looked up masking tape!!! :)
You can even find out Chinese names for parts of the body, with nice biology pictures aswell.
Hanyuxuesheng, I agree with you, it would be better with some verbs, but then it's also putting the words in the right order. I still thing it's a great book, so at least you can mangle so words together, like to visting the doctor, or buying things.
sarahjs
July 02, 2008, 10:49 PMBazza you got a bargin, (excluding the postage) I got mine from waterstones, for £7.99, And I was just looking to see what Chinese books they had!
sarahjs
June 30, 2008, 06:33 PMMy book has colour photos!! ;) It's not very good for sentences, but it's nice to look through and as my Chinese improves at least I will be able to change the words around, or make up very bizzar sentances.
sarahjs
July 03, 2008, 03:04 PMWow Bazza, I think you have this book stuck to you! :) Put the book down, and enjoy the nice weather, unless it's raining then study away!!!
bazza
July 03, 2008, 03:37 PMI just have a good eye for spotting errors, I could be professional proof-reader.
There's another on page 80, a screwdriver bit extension adapter (not too sure of it's actual name) is labelled as a reamer, the reamer is the one at the other end. ;)
Now I know a Torx bit is 安全钻头. :)
bazza
July 08, 2008, 07:38 PMI wouldn't have guessed the word for trumpet was 小号.
pcmi
July 08, 2008, 08:51 PMBut do any of these terms stick when you just see them listed on the page? I always thought these picture dictionaries were an inefficient way to increase your vocabulary.
bazza
July 08, 2008, 09:34 PMMore so than just text alone I think, especially as the items on one page are related to each other.
Some words you just remember straight away as your browsing, like
电吉他 (electric guitar).
bazza
July 03, 2008, 05:58 AMI've noticed an error on page 73, where it has sponge and loofah, the loofah label is pointing to the sponge.
wolson
June 30, 2008, 06:13 PMHere is another one that I own and used while I was in China:
http://www.chinesecultureonline.com/d:BA:Culture-Dictionary/462.html
The web site is selling it for $30 but I only paid about 50元 for it.