Chinese electronic dictionary

[Charity123]

I think Besta is good only for Chinese, its English translation is not good. Children will pick up broken english. It may translate Chinese phrase word for word into English, changing the meaning of the phrase altogether.


For eg. 风和日丽is translated into English as "The wind and Japan are beautiful."

[janet88]

My son uses the Besta for its dictionary (Eng & Chinese), zao4 ju4, searching for meaning of idioms and thesarus in Collins.

[schweppes]

:thankyou: Janet_lee88, Mamatay and Keroppi for recommending the Besta CD668s Chinese dictionary, and to elle_yv for starting this thread.


I just popped by Popular to invest in one. Price is high but it does come with a lot of features and functions. But dh went :shock: :shock: when he heard the price :!: We were saying for our kids' sake, we sacrifice getting an iPad for ourselves :roll:

There is a promo now, and I got mine for $543 and it comes bundled with the Collins English dictionary. Usual price is $698 without the Collins Eng dictionary. The salesgirl told me that the promo will end in Aug.

:celebrate:

[Jojo_2010]

schweppes:

:thankyou: Janet_lee88, Mamatay and Keroppi for recommending the Besta CD668s Chinese dictionary, and to elle_yv for starting this thread.


I just popped by Popular to invest in one. Price is high but it does come with a lot of features and functions. But dh went :shock: :shock: when he heard the price :!: We were saying for our kids' sake, we sacrifice getting an iPad for ourselves :roll:

There is a promo now, and I got mine for $543 and it comes bundled with the Collins English dictionary. Usual price is $698 without the Collins Eng dictionary. The salesgirl told me that the promo will end in Aug.

:celebrate:

Intend to buy? Any promo?

[cmm]

I’m trying to get a Chinese electronic dictionary for my P3 child. The models available in her school bookshop are a Besta one (comes with warranty) and two Creative ones (no warranty). The latest Creative model comes with input thru stylus.


Would like to get advice frm parents who have experience with these dictionaries which would be better? The bookshop auntie recommends the besta one cos of the warranty (but she also agrees that the creative one is more popular), but my sil’s child used a creative one & highly recommended it.

Personally, I prefer a good old dictionary in the form of a book. But it would be too heavy to carry around in my girl’s already overloaded schoolbag.

Thanx!!!

[ppnqq]

They should be the same because MOE only approved these few models for students to use during examinations so their functions/features almost the same, neither one are given the 'privilege' to have a more enhanced function/feature, else, most would definitely go for the one which will 'benefit' them more. Make sense? JMHO. :roll:


Of course it is always safer to get one with a warranty. Btw, Popular selling them too.

[small]

My child preferred Creative HansVision e-Dictionary, mentioned more user friendly.


Please keep the purchase receipt for the warranty purpose, I think it come with 1 year limited warranty..

[ppnqq]

Ok, had kpo and found out that the latest Creative (cannot cnfm, should be this brand) has more Chinese Idioms than the rest.


So for those who have not gotten the e-dictionary yet may consider this. But must try to see if can get any warranty to be safe.

HTH.

[pixiedust]

We have both Creative and Besta.


Besta is shell case packaging. Maybe more durable ? DS started with Besta and he prefers Besta. Keypad is bigger and there is 笔划 function to show each stroke in big font.

I am left with using the Creative (not the latest version). No shell-case and keypad is small.

I didn’t do a comparision - Vocabulary and 成语 lookup, so far, haven’t found one to be more superior than the other (now at P5).

[Happy Mama]

My DD is in Pri 3 this year and we recently bought Creative PX2101 from school. I think it is one of the approved E-dictionary.