It also contains a Chinese-English dictionary and can recognize Chinese characters written with a stylus.
The WDL functions in seven languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish - and includes content in more than forty languages.
There are scores of Chinese-language newspapers and a handful of English-language dailies.
But the Chinese are much more outgoing, and perhaps because they're coming 30 years later there are many more millions of Chinese who are English-language capable.
In fact, the Chinese-language report translated into English refers to it as "Apple's netbook (or a "tablet" as many call it)" only adding to the confusion.
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Currently, Internet access is most attractive to young, educated, English-speaking Chinese who can use the Net as a window to the world and a means to communicate with friends and ex-classmates living abroad.
Curiously, though, Venus does not even have a proper Chinese name--only a nearly meaningless phonetic transliteration from English.
"You can read it as poetry, " said Sun Ganlu, a prominent 54-year-old Chinese writer whose work has been translated into English, French and Japanese.
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The Chinese are creating TV networks, pouring millions into English-language newspapers, leasing radio stations on all continents and broadcasting TV news to a worldwide audience in six languages.
Singapore's Nanyang Business School offers a Chinese-language executive MBA and from next year will have an English version.
Neo's character, an unpolished Chinese-educated executive, speaks Mandarin with his wife, inadequate English in the office and Hokkien with his coffee-shop buddies.
The Harvard-educated former diplomat, who speaks fluent English and Chinese, is lauded for his grasp of policy and willingness to speak his mind.
It even does offline single-word translation between Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
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To most Chinese, English can be a passport to an education abroad or a high-salaried job with a foreign firm in China.
Our correspondent says that, according to one well-known Chinese songwriter, My Heart Will Go On is one of two English songs that are well known in China.
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China Daily, China's biggest English-language newspaper, has launched an African edition - the latest of several Chinese media initiatives in Africa.
Started in 2005 by western-educated returnee Haidong Pan (see my photo at top right), the Beijing-based site has accumulated more than 5 million entries from 3 million contributors and is in both Chinese and English.
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