Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

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 ...

Name Gender Guesser

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

As I mentioned here, I've often wanted a way to know whether an email from a Chinese stranger (like 张安平) is from a man or woman. There's a cool new (to me) tool at Chinese-Tools that can help. Presenting the Chinese Name Gender Guesser! It immediately guessed that 张安平 was a boy ...

ChineseTeachers.com – My Review

Friday, August 28th, 2009

"I'd gladly pay someone to help me with my Chinese if I could just find someone good enough." If that's you, there's a new service that will take you up on that offer: ChineseTeachers.com. Although this particular site launched for students in April of this year, interactive online language learning/teaching is not ...