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July 27, 2008 Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese appears in an article "New guide aids in Chinese translation" in Lexington Minuteman on July 27, 2008.     August 3, 2008 Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese appears in the Shelf Life in Boston Globe on August 3, 2008.     August 12, 2008 GeorgeKung.com introduces its first book: Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese

Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese: A Complete Guide To Computer-aided Chinese Reading For Immediate Release LEXINGTON, Mass./EWORLDWIRE/Aug 12, 2008 --- Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese is the first publication to advocate the idea of reading text in a foreign language without knowing or learning the language. Chinese written language is extremely difficult to learn. Its text does not consist of alphabetic letters, but is made up of characters built from strokes written in virtual rectangular boxes. One needs to memorize 3,000 characters and over 10,000 commonly used words to read newspapers. This takes native Chinese children 3 to 6 years to learn. For foreigners who do not use Chinese on a daily basis, the time needed is substantially longer. This book takes another approach. It shows that using the latest translation and OCR (optical character recognition) technologies, with a few other tools and know-how, it is completely feasible for someone with no knowledge of Chinese to read and understand text written in Chinese. Using the techniques described, one can read not only electronic text from Web sites and e-mails but text on printed materials such as magazines, books and newspapers, or even from posters and street signs. This book provides detailed, step-by-step instructions anyone can follow in each stage of the process. It contains real-life examples demonstrating reading from magazines, newspapers and street signs. There is an accompanying Web site at http://www.GeorgeKung.com which provides updates, sample chapters, additional resources and other information. This book is ready to order from GeorgeKung.com and Amazon.com. About the Author George Kung was born and grew up in Taiwan. In 1986, he moved to Massachusetts, where he currently resides. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Kung worked for 8 years as a Hardware Design Engineer and for more than 10 years as a Software Engineer. His primary interest is in human-machine interface and computer-based translation. It took him more than two years to research, test, refine and document the process described in this book. Kung's wife teaches Chinese at the Lexington Chinese School in Massachusetts. They have two children who studied Chinese for many years but are still not able to reach the level of competence to read newspapers; they end up needing help from computer software to read Chinese. CONTACT: George Kung GeorgeKung.com Phone: 1-781-430-0065 Email: gkung@GeorgeKung.com Website: http://www.GeorgeKung.com KEYWORDS: Read Chinese, Chinese, computer-aided Reading, Chinese translation, read Chinese, Chinese reading, Chinese learning, Chinese translation, computer translation, computer-aided learning, computer-aided reading, Chinese book, Chinese education, translation book, Chinese language SOURCE: GeorgeKung.com     August 13, 2008 Computer-aided Chinese Reading Seminar The author of Read Chinese Without Knowing Chinese: A complete guide to Computer-aided Chinese Reading will be giving a seminar on Saturday, September 13 in Newton, Massachusetts. The seminar is free to the public. Seating is very limited. Please reserve your seat ASAP using the form below. Topic: Computer-aided Chinese Reading: Process and Tools Date/Time: September 13, 2008 (Sat.) 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Location: Main Auditorium, Culture Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston, 90 Lincoln St., Newton, MA 02461     September 5, 2008 Cancellation of Computer-aided Chinese Reading Seminar Due to lack of public interest, the Computer-aided Chinese Reading Seminar scheduled on September 13, 2008 has been cancelled.     October 4, 2008 Introducing LCC (Learn Chinese Characters) Volume 1A GeorgeKung.com introduces Learn Chinese Characters (LCC) Volume 1A. LCC is a multimedia learning program which teaches you reading and writing Chinese characters. For each character entry, it gives the English definitions, Pinyin and Zhuyin annotations, cross reference of simplified/traditional character, radical, number of strokes (excluding the radical), word examples and definitions. You can also hear the character pronounced through the speaker and see an animation of the writing. LCC runs on IBM compatible PC with Windows 3.1 or higher. LCC Volume 1A can be used and distributed freely.     October 12, 2008 Introducing LCC (Learn Chinese Characters) Volume 1B GeorgeKung.com introduces Learn Chinese Characters (LCC) Volume 1B. LCC is a multimedia learning program which teaches you reading and writing Chinese characters. For each character entry, it gives the English definitions, Pinyin and Zhuyin annotations, cross reference of simplified/traditional character, radical, number of strokes (excluding the radical), word examples and definitions. You can also hear the character pronounced through the speaker and see an animation of the writing. LCC runs on IBM compatible PC with Windows 3.1 or higher. LCC Volume 1B can be used and distributed freely.     October 19, 2008 Introducing LCC (Learn Chinese Characters) Volume 1C GeorgeKung.com introduces Learn Chinese Characters (LCC) Volume 1C. LCC is a multimedia learning program which teaches you reading and writing Chinese characters. For each character entry, it gives the English definitions, Pinyin and Zhuyin annotations, cross reference of simplified/traditional character, radical, number of strokes (excluding the radical), word examples and definitions. You can also hear the character pronounced through the speaker and see an animation of the writing. LCC runs on IBM compatible PC with Windows 3.1 or higher. LCC Volume 1C can be used and distributed freely.

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