Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

Wanted: Cantonese Materials For Foreigners Who Already Know Mandarin

Friday, June 11th, 2010

I am not even close to committing to trying to think about beginning to learn Cantonese. It's Mandarin all the way for me (for now). But the fact is: I'm finishing my 3rd year in Cantonese Land (where I happily use Mandarin, by the way) and I really should at ...

Wanted: Convert Tone Numbers in Microsoft Word

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

What I've got is a document in Microsoft Word that contains Pinyin words with tone numbers, for example: Hi everyone. 大家好. da4jia1 hao3. So I want to highlight the WHOLE DOCUMENT, click a button, and see this: Hi everyone. 大家好. dàjiā hǎo. In other words, it ignores everything without a number, and converts everything with a number to ...

ShanghaiDaily’s Buzzword

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

I just found out about a blogish list of hip, new Chinese words that the ShanghaiDaily puts out called Buzzword. Here's the editor's purpose statement: Frequently, readers ask us for help when new Chinese phrases or terms pop up in the press or daily conversations. In an attempt to improve the rendering ...