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Chinese Learning Apps for Android Roundup
This post is a follow-up to the New Chinese Learning App Roundup post, but this time we’ll be focusing on apps for Android! While messing around on my Android phone, I went through and grabbed what seemed like the most useful apps from the Google Play store for Chinese study. Check out the list of…
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Ninchanese – a new comer to the online Chinese language learning arena
I had been following the progress of Ninchanese for a little while. I joined the beta program a while ago, and it was a few months ago that I received news that the beta was ready. I’ve gone in and played around a bit, and thought it might be worth taking a look at and…
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Guest Post: Do I learn Mandarin Chinese or is it best I try Cantonese?
Below is a guest post from Learn Mandarin Now, which tackles the question: should one learn Mandarin Chinese or Cantonese? This is especially interesting for me as I’ve been taking some steps into Cantonese recently myself. Have a read and leave your comments below! With so many people planning to learn Chinese these days, an…
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Prepare to battle!
I always much preferred the battle system in Chrono Trigger over Final Fantasy, especially encountering enemies: being able to see the enemies first not only made for richer environments, but is also took away much of the annoyance of random battles. That said, battles do happen and when you get into one, you need to…
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SwiftKey for Android Now Supports Chinese!
Every so often I switch the default keyboard just to check out the third party ones. I don’t use them often, but I was happy to see that SwiftKey (one of the first third party keyboards I downloaded) finally supports Chinese input. And, perhaps just in time for Chinese New Year, they’ve also introduced a…
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Head Out Into the World – World Map Locations
This post is a (fairly) exhaustive list of the locations in Chrono Trigger and some notes on their names and translations. I tried to catch as much as I could and give some insight into where the names came from, since some of them are different from the English version! Head below the jump to…
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Introducing Project Chrono
Chrono Trigger: perhaps one of my (if not the) all-time favorite RPGs. Then, a beautiful thing happened one day: SquareEnix released an iOS and an Android version of Chrono Trigger. But, not only that, it included a complete Chinese translation–both in Simplified and Traditional Chinese. This was simply amazing. So I decided in a series…
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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 little mouse in an email address
In my previous post on punctuation, I left out perhaps one of the most interesting, creative, and perhaps most relevant to the internet, symbols: the @ symbol! When you ask people for their email address, they’ll often answer you with: name小老鼠gmail.com At first this completely threw me off–until I thought it out and realized how…
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The Art of Punctuation in Chinese
There is a certain art to Chinese punctuation, and as a graduate student, writing papers with proper pronunciation is exceedingly important. 「知漢字者智。知標點者明。」-Me, breaking traditional poetic structure. A Little History of Chinese Punctuation Chinese traditionally had no paragraphs, no spaces and, especially, no punctuation. It wasn’t until the late nineteenth and early twentieth century did punctuation…