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Thanks for all the input Spence and for the sample Katie.
I went with the Olympus 4100PC Digital Voice Recorder. Went through half the people working at Circuit City before I found one who seemed (seemed) to know something about them (at circuit city the guys in the green shirts (their version of Geek squad) knew the most) . He said no contest in sound quality for recording between the two. He also pointed out lots of other reasons having to do with file structure , sorting , editing , etc which I probably don't need but it just seemed like the machine specifically made to record voices was better at that than the MP3 which was made to play music. It cost $45 not $35 as I originally said. That $35 one was for a model which I guess is erroneously sold as having a PC interface but doesn't . The one I bought has a USB interface.
A good thing was that if you go to their online site , find what you want , then print out the shopping cart , you can then just go to the store and they will honor that price including discounts and internet coupons if any. the benefits of online pricing with the convenience of just going there and picking it up right away.
Anyway , Now I have to learn to use it.
Chinese is a tough language to learn because it uses exactly the same word for many meanings. the difference is just a slight up tone or down tone or even tone , or up down tone to distinguish the words. I hope the new recorder is good enough to pick up on the tone differences.
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