Children's English-Chinese Phonetic Dictionary with Illustrations

Author: Zhang Ying
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This dictionary is arranged in phonetic order, compiling nearly 1,500 common children's words (about 1,200 in the main text) and approximately 900 common sentence phrases. The dictionary also enriches everyday language through "supplementary words and phrases," and appropriately supplements abstract vocabulary that young children may find difficult to grasp in the appendix. This dictionary establishes a bilingual English-Chinese self-identification system for young children. The main text vocabulary is arranged in the order of international phonetic symbols, focusing on displaying the phonetic symbols of vocabulary example sentences. Relying on the phonetic recognition function of phonetic symbols, vivid illustrations, and young children's natural talent for recognizing and identifying sounds through phonetic symbols, it sets up a "object image → phonetic symbol → speech" sound recognition relational system, avoiding the interference of English letters in young children's sound recognition. Children can also rely on their mother tongue and existing knowledge to enter the world of Chinese character self-identification through the "object image → mother tongue → Chinese character" Chinese character recognition relational system. The dictionary uniquely features an icon directory, a classified vocabulary index, and a page phonetic symbol arrangement chart, establishing two search channels: one based on word pronunciation and the other based on word part of speech and category. This provides young children with the convenience of independently using the dictionary for self-search and self-identification.