Electronic Dictionary
October 28, 2007
This, I recall, is one of the handiest gadget one should own if you will be staying in China without a tour guide.
I first discovered this handy-dandy gadget when my friends were all raving about their classmates little electronic device they all use to translate the word they want in Chinese. I was not familiar with it since the last time I held a English-Chinese dictionary was in High school and it was a big book!
Well, I was always the one being easily swayed by peer pressured (this is helpful and a good investment for a student anyways) so my friends and I all went to Zhong guan cun and canvass for the cheapest there is in the current market. Haggling was pretty tough even though we bought around 5 pieces, we got a measly 10 rmb discount. The cost of the dictionary was aroudn 450 rmb.
It was pretty handy and user friendly. Though ours was in Chinese mostly, there are a lot of electronic dictionaries with English menus. If you know how to use Pinyin, it would be easier to know which word you are looking for. For beginners, there’s always the English word to begin with. There’s also a space where you can write the word and the dictionary will figure out what is the meaning of it. Cool isn’t it?
Too bad..I lost it!!! That’s what I get for being a mess…I still can’t figure out where I left it =(
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