Category: Online Resources
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In Paper versus Electric Dictionaries, Electric Wins
It was quite a while ago now I ran a little poll asking if people preferred using Paper Dictionaries, Electronic Dictionaries, or both. Well, turns out the results were pretty much unanimously in favor of Electronic Dictionaries! With their convenience, portability, and instantly accessible information, electronic dictionaries are probably the best option for language learners these days.…
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WaiChinese – A complete tone changer
I have to preface this by saying I am extremely impressed by WaiChinese. I have absolutely always wanted an app that was able to actually track your tones as you say them and it’s finally here! So please go and try it it out! Now onto the full review! It all comes down to tones…
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A Quick Look at “Learn a Chinese Phrase”
I was recently contacted by the Learn a Chinese Phrase team from Wayne State University about a video series they put together. I must admit this was pretty surprising, considering I went to school in Michigan and had friends at Wayne State University, too. So I was quite curious to see what they had put…
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So Long and Thanks For All the Chinese
This is going to be quite a short entry, busy putting together my research proposal for my thesis! But I wanted to share this with everyone, I was super excited when I found this the other day. I just happened across this website that has four books of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy…
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Free Bilingual Glossaries Online
This originally started out as a comment on Chinese Hacks, specifically on this post (which mentions me, so I have to thank them graciously for their retweets and mentions, thanks!), but I decided to also post it here. In addition, most of Taiwan’s government resource websites provide a lot of Chinese<>English glossaries, especially for their…
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Chinese<—>Chinese Online Dictionaries
Just a few links for my (and potentially your) reference for some online Chinese to Chinese dictionaries. The links are in increasing order of difficulty (e.g. Children’s Concise, to Children’s, to regular [with a lot of literary references to some entries; really interesting!], idioms, and character variants). Kids Mini (GREAT place to start!): http://140.111.1.43/cgi-bin/gdic/gsweb.cgi?o=ddictionary Kids:…
En Route To Fluency 