Chinese Level: Intermediate/Advanced With the smartphone market being so competitive, and each device having different functions and specifications, it’s hard to know which phone to buy. So today we’ll be looking at how to compare two of the current most … Continue reading
At this year’s IT Month Show in Taiwan, a company called Funwish is asking travellers to Chinese speaking countries to throw away their Chinese dictionaries and guidebooks and instead replace them with the HuayuNavi app. Scheduled for release in March … Continue reading
Pleco has finally updated their iPhone dictionary to version 2.2.0 which includes the much anticipated Optical Character Recognition functionality that was shown off a few months ago. The functionality seems to be a dream-come-true for Chinese learners who should be … Continue reading
I’m in a split mind over whether this would have a positive or negative effect on learning Chinese. If you came to overly rely on it, you’d never have an incentive to actually learn the characters, while on the other … Continue reading
Taiwan’s Apple Daily Newspaper has become notorious for it’s 3D animations of news stories such as the Tiger Woods scandal. The latest animation targets Apple and their recent problems. The video depicts Steve Jobs as Darth Vader, becoming increasingly evil … Continue reading
Popup Chinese, a website offering podcasts and various tools for learning Chinese (look for a full review in the future) recently released a Chinese writing iPhone application for free. The app features three modes:
A news story that has been hard to avoid over the last few weeks is the situation at Taiwanese firm Foxconn (the largest exporter in China). There have been a series of suicides at Foxconn factories followed by close scrutiny … Continue reading
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last month, or just not interested in technology at all, you will certainly have heard the rumours surrounding Apple’s new iPhone. Well, it was finally officially announced yesterday morning at Apple’s … Continue reading
Continuing our series of mobile dictionary app reviews, Dian Hua is the first of two apps suggested by Shane in the comments of the previous iPhone dictionary review, and is also based on the CC-Cedict open source dictionary. The difference … Continue reading
One of the benefits of having a smartphone like an iPhone or Google Android based phone, is that you don’t have to carry lots of individual devices with you when you go out – this includes an electronic Chinese dictionary. … Continue reading
