Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category
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 »
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
I've been adding more RSS feeds to the "Learn Chinese" iGoogle Page ever since its initial release. So I thought it was time for an update.
For those of you early adopters who've been with us from the beginning, you'll have to add it afresh to your iGoogle home page to ...
Posted in Computer | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Ok everyone (Joel), the suspense is over.
I have been working with (read: begging) MDBG for the past few weeks to develop and test something that will make self-hosted Wordpress bloggers' lives better.
I'm very proud to announce the arrival of the MDBG wordpress plugin (fanfare please)!
My favorite feature is the automatic ...
Posted in Computer | 16 Comments »
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