If you don’t have an iPhone or other such smart-phone but still want to learn Chinese on the move, there is another option - Chinese Touch. Chinese Touch is homebrew application for the Nintendo DS that enables you to read … 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
Summer is fast approaching, which in Taiwan means 30C+ heat and humidity. Luckily Taiwan has some of the best Tea in the world, and every street corner has an ice tea shop. 50嵐 (50岚) is one of the most popular … 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
It seems that Google Chrome is really growing in popularity lately – and can you blame people? It really is lightning fast in comparison to other browsers. Although, one of the things that makes or breaks a browser is extensions, … Continue reading
As a brief follow-up to our post the other day about Chinese signs, specifically the usage of “者” and “中”, this hand crafted sign found in Taiwan should reinforce their usage, while being at least vaguely amusing at the same … Continue reading
Well, not so much dirty as fast – if you need to translate a word or phrase quickly, then Google Dictionary is the way to go. In true Google style, Google Dictionary is light-weight and targeted in it’s feature set. … Continue reading
When studying a passage of Chinese text, more often than not, having inline pronunciation would be a big help. Mandarinspot provides website pop-up translations and also annotation of Chinese text including word lists for various HSK levels, and various phonetic … 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
Not physically fight, but rather verbally If you’re living abroad learning Chinese then you’ll find that a lot of people, especially the younger generation, will try to speak English at every opportunity when they see a westerner coming. If you … Continue reading
