Wenlin Institute, Inc. 文林研究所

wenlininstitute.org and wenlin.com

Welcome to wenlininstitute.org! This website serves the online version of the Wenlin User's Guide (guide.wenlininstitute.org). Eventually we will also have exciting information here about Wenlin Institute, Inc., our new board of directors, and projects and plans. For now, please see our main website, wenlin.com, and/or read the following mission statement.

Mission Statement

The specific purpose of this corporation is to help people learn languages, primarily Chinese and English; promote intercultural education, understanding, appreciation, peace, cooperation, unity, and diversity; and develop linguistic and educational sciences, technologies, and techniques. For this purpose, the corporation shall:

support the current and future users of Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese and the ABC series of dictionaries, by maintaining, expanding, improving, licensing, and publishing these works (and other works such as the John DeFrancis series of Chinese textbooks and the Encounters Chinese Language Program);
uphold the integrity, reputation, and principles of these works, adhering to the principle of using both Pinyin (alphabetical writing) and Hanzi (Chinese characters in all of their various forms) for learning Chinese, and striving for the highest standards of accuracy, correctness, scholarship, reliability, fairness, utility, and quality;
put dictionaries and other learning materials online in such a way that qualified contributors around the world can collaborate to make improvements and corrections to the central repository;
attract, support and cultivate a team of skilled workers, including top experts in lexicography, linguistics, programming, and education;
teach the skills used by our expert team, enabling future generations to continue the work.