The Silk Road Tutor is a language acquisition and research tool primarily for students and business professionals learning Mandarin or functioning in a multi-lingual environment. The tool consists of the following features: Chinese-English / English-Chinese Dictionary (105,000+ Mandarin | 500,000+ English words and phrases), Fully Editable Dictionary, Advanced Search (Simplified, Traditional, Pinyin, English, Mixed, Incremental Search), Sound-alike or Exact Match Search Mode, Synonyms and Antonyms, Example Usages, Human Voice Quality Mandarin Pronunciation, Chinese Text Analyzer, Multi-lingual / bi-directional Natural Language Translator and Grammar Quick Reference.
The multi-language bidirectional natural language translator (Internet connection required) is capable of translating between combinations of any of the following thirty-two other languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian / Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.