I might as well ask for it all.
These are my key items to learn Chinese.
And, they are clearly two separate items.
I think the first - A Biligual Geographic dictionary would greatly enhance learner's ablities to recognize the names of places in the news. Also, some names use very obscure Chinese characters that are not learned in the normal second language course.
Pleco could provide this down the road, it really is a simple bilingual database.
The second item is far more daunting because an encyclopedia requires a lot of manpower and a particular editorial cultural view [occidental or oriental]. It really may be up to Wikipedia or some other internet based service to eventually provide this. I suppost that with G3 services, it could become available 24/7 on a PDA.
These are my key items to learn Chinese.
And, they are clearly two separate items.
I think the first - A Biligual Geographic dictionary would greatly enhance learner's ablities to recognize the names of places in the news. Also, some names use very obscure Chinese characters that are not learned in the normal second language course.
Pleco could provide this down the road, it really is a simple bilingual database.
The second item is far more daunting because an encyclopedia requires a lot of manpower and a particular editorial cultural view [occidental or oriental]. It really may be up to Wikipedia or some other internet based service to eventually provide this. I suppost that with G3 services, it could become available 24/7 on a PDA.