Archive for the ‘Computer’ Category
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
[Update: Thanks to all those who left comments and recommendations. I've added them to the post]
Since the last time I talked (asked) about this was in 2007, I thought an update was in order.
If you want to put your mouse over hanzi (like this: 汉字) and get pinyin and English, ...
Posted in Hanzi | 14 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Computer | 14 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Vocabulary | 3 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Computer | 3 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Computer | 10 Comments »
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