{"id":450,"date":"2004-09-07T06:48:53","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T11:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/09\/07\/searching-for-a-electronic-englishviet"},"modified":"2004-09-07T06:48:53","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T11:48:53","slug":"searching-for-a-electronic-englishvietnamese-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/09\/07\/searching-for-a-electronic-englishvietnamese-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for a Electronic EnglishVietnamese Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a412'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ectaco.com\/dictionaries\/view_info.php3?refid=248&amp;rfr_id=264730&amp;rqt_id=9822477&amp;pagelang=23&amp;lang=21&amp;dict_id=1395\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ectaco.com\/images\/dict\/GD-305V.gif\"><\/a><br \/>\n <br \/>\n Been looking around for a good EnglishVietnamese electronic dictionary.<br \/>\n One feature I really want is pronunciation.  I have found that the<br \/>\n pronunciation is one of the trickier things to pick up correctly on<br \/>\n one&#8217;s own so a dictionary that can speak a new word would be quite valuable.<br \/>\n The current contender I am looking at is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ectaco.com\/dictionaries\/view_info.php3?refid=248&amp;rfr_id=264730&amp;rqt_id=9822477&amp;pagelang=23&amp;lang=21&amp;dict_id=1395\">GD-305V<\/a><br \/>\n however I think<br \/>\n I&#8217;d like to test out a real model to make sure it can actually pronounce<br \/>\n Vietnamese words before I pick this up since the last time I tried a couple<br \/>\n it only pronounced English.  After some bugging of the poor shopkeeper<br \/>\n I was informed that the set of electronic dictionaries he had were mainly<br \/>\n aimed at Vietnamese learning English hence no need for the Vietnamese<br \/>\n pronunciations.  D&#8217;oh.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been looking around for a good EnglishVietnamese electronic dictionary. One feature I really want is pronunciation. I have found that the pronunciation is one of the trickier things to pick up correctly on one&#8217;s own so a dictionary that can speak a new word would be quite valuable. The current contender I am looking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}