We’re a couple of weeks late on this, but the PeraPera Chinese Pop-up Dictionary, which has been a Firefox favourite for a long time, has finally made its way to Google Chrome. Here’s what the developers had to say: Yes … Continue reading
I remember reading somewhere that the reason Chinese is so difficult to learn is the lack of reinforcement – having now been learning Chinese for 5 years I can attest to this. With English, and other semi-phonetic languages, you are … Continue reading
Here’s a great tip for making searching online Chinese dictionaries a lot easier and faster. It can be annoying when reading or writing Chinese online to have to type in the URL of the dictionary you want to search, then … Continue reading
If you’re a user of the amazing pop-up Chinese dictionary addon for Firefox, PeraPeraKun, then you’ll be happy to know that the dictionary database has been updated to the latest version of the CC-Cedict Chinese dictionary. And if you’re learning … Continue reading
When browsing Chinese websites, you might come across some sites that appear to be just a garbled mess of random characters. This is really annoying, especially if you want to look words up in an online Chinese dictionary. Take the … Continue reading
Reading Chinese online is a great way to practice your reading and comprehension, but nothing is more daunting than arriving at a web page only to be greeted by a wall of Chinese characters. Here is a list of some … Continue reading
If you’re at all interested in news from China and Taiwan then you have no doubt heard of The Hao Hao Report – a website that allows users to submit and vote on news stories relating to the Chinese speaking … Continue reading
Reading and comprehension is an important part of the language learning process, but something that shouldn’t be overlooked is listening ability. The only way you can improve you listening is by exposing your ear to more speech, if you have … Continue reading
It doesn’t matter how long you have been learning Chinese for, when browsing Chinese websites or reading Chinese news online, you’re certain to come across some at least some new words or phrases. While it’s easy to copy a word … Continue reading
When learning Chinese, sooner or later you will come across “the other Chinese”. Depending on where you are learning, or your own choice, that could be Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese. It’s no fun to spend a few years learning … Continue reading
