Study Chinese Online From China

Chinese Tools

July 30, 2006 on 2:34 pm | In Tools |

It’s not the same studying Chinese as it was a few years ago, even a few months ago it was different. Chinese doesn’t need to be a particularly challenging language to learn. Actually there are many reasons why it is easy. We’ll talk about that soon.

In the meantime, let’s list some tools that are online today that make studying Chinese easier.

1. Copy/paste Chinese text into a tool which translates, provides romanization in pinyin, provides pop-up English definitions, and much more. Adso is the best.
http://www.adsotrans.com/new.html

2. Look up words in a tool that accepts English, Chinese characters, or pinyin romanization. MDBG is the way to go.
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddictbasic

3. Pronounce sounds correctly. For a review of the most difficult sounds for an English speaker Sinosplice’s tutorial clears up the many myths.
http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/pronunciation/