User Manual
Chapter 1 Product Features
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Chapter 1 Product Features
1.1 Product Features
Penpower Chinese Expert provides a comprehensive Chinese learning environment by
immersing you in a Mandarin listening and speaking environment. Penpower Chinese
Expert lets you learn Mandarin from any source including web sites, books, newspapers
and magazines.
• Listening comprehension.
We employ the latest TTS (Text To Speech), and intelligent syntax technology, so you can
listen to the correct pronunciation of single characters, phrases, or sentences. Penpower
Chinese Expert can also record pronunciation from real people. You can hear real pronun-
ciation at any time.
• Reading
Have trouble reading books, newspapers or magazines on hand? Input them into your PC,
our software will show you everything about the Chinese characters such as the pinyin/
zhuyin, their radicals, their total number of strokes, and their meanings in English.
• Speaking
With our speech recognition technology, you can practice speaking Chinese phrases or
taking quizzes with your PC and be condent that you sound more and more like a native
Chinese speaker after each session.
• Writing
We will show you how to write any Chinese character in the correct stroke order. We also
provide you with several different inputting methods for your composing pleasure: hanyu
pinyin, zhuyin or strokes.
• Translation
We use a state-of-the-art machine translation module for your exploration of Chinese
and English. You can translate between Chinese and English by word, phrases or whole
sentences.