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Cheng & Tsui Chinese-Pinyin- English Dictionary for Learners

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This the the best Mandarin dictionary for learners, BY FAR.

When you really start to get into the groove of learning Mandarin, you will suddenly discover that most other dictionaries totally suck: not telling you the counters for nouns, not telling you which verbs are splittable, not giving any examples at all, etc etc.

This one is great.. as an added bonus, it's been written by commies, and has some hilarious example sentences in it. ie: "They are always flaunting the flag of liberty" and "Those who oppress the people will eventually be overthrown"

It's a desk reference, not a pocket dictionary. I still haven't found a truely great pocket dictionary.

This dictionary is extremely useful because it makes use of many real-life examples. It is the only dictionary that I know that uses in its examples (1) Simplified Mandarin, (2) Pinyin, and (3) English all at once. With other dictionaries, you have to spend time looking up characters offered in the definition. Not the case here. Must bear in mind that this is a dictionary for the Mainland. Having said that, there are some great "colloquial" entries, and these entries are really fun for getting to learn the Chinese that is really spoken on the Mainland. Really recommend this dictionary.

What makes this dictionary a very useful tool is its use of examples. Many, many examples provide many hints. Has become my favorite learning tool to date.

Although this dictionary has a limited number of words, nearly 35.000 words you can amass an amazing knowledge of chinese with help of thousands of examples. A good buying.