Wenlin For Mac

With the growing importance of China on the global stage, having a good grasp of the language can offer a significant advantage in the job market. Not only that, it allows you to communicate with over a billion people and get a better understanding of oriental culture.

However, it goes without saying that Chinese is very difficult to learn for most of us, as it has almost no similarities to the languages we are used to.

This is where Wenlin comes to your aid, as it can help you learn written words and characters, as well as improve your pronunciation. However, it should be noted that only the Mandarin dialect is covered.

You can analyze texts obtained from various sources and move the mouse pointer over specific characters to receive detailed descriptions. These are displayed in the Instant Look-up panel, which can be disabled if you have no need for it.

If you want to practice drawing Chinese characters, you can use Wenlin's Brush Tool, as it recognizes shapes and automatically inserts the detected symbols. Of course, a pen input device is preferred for this task.

Wenlin comes equipped with sound captures of all the Mandarin syllables and can provide audio renderings of the inserted texts, so that your spoken language skills can evolve at the same rate as your understanding of the written form.

To put it mildly, Wenlin does not impress from a visual standpoint. Many users may be able to get past this issue, but the application would have appeared outdated even if we were testing it ten years ago.

Multiple windows can be launched at the same time, but a tabbed interface would have made the task of managing them much simpler.

Overall, Wenlin is a helpful tool for learning Chinese, specifically the Mandarin dialect, and can be useful for beginners, as well as more advanced students. However, its interface is far from modern, which is something you should take into account if this factor is particularly important to you.