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Mandarin Chinese Dictionary: English-Chinese (Dover Language Guides)

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I am very fond of Mr. Fangyu Wang. And have his books Read Chinese -
I , II and III. But it took me three years to have this intelligent dictionary. Why? Because I study by the Taiwans method - Traditional - and
was not sure of how was this issue printed: traditional or simplified?
One cannot buy a dictionary based only in its cover, right? What if it was in simplified ideograms? And it did not have the helpfull "search inside" ! So - the years passed - and I did not buy it!!!
Today - june 9th 2007 - I gained as a gift from my son. And - bingo! -
there were my beloved ideograms in traditional (also called complex )form.
And I spent all my saturday readind...a dictionary! Because it is not a
common one. Because it was prepared by an expert lexicographer named
Fred Fangyu Wang! Among the 4000 entries, that the author smartly put in handwritten mode and in a fair size - so one does not need lens to read -
For example, lets pick the word Course - besides the nice ideogram, the reader has its pronouciation in pinyin and 2, 3 or 4 sentences as examples of its use. Let's say: 1) You should follow the proper course. 2)There are still two more courses. 3) What course have you chosen? 4)As a matter of course. 5)Of course! 6) In due course: don't forget to inform in due course. Now: it is easy to multiply 4000 entries for 2, 3, 4...and have in alphabetical order, an 800 pages dictionary. Congratulations to the Setton Hall University Press and, of course, Amazon !