Study Chinese Online From China

Online Chinese Dictionary - taking the pain of old away

MDBG Online Chinese Dictionary

http://www.xuezhongwen.net/chindict/chindict.php

Try the site dictionary right now! Enter your word into the search field below.

Chinesepod Podcast on using a Chinese dictionary

For some good old fashioned lookup of a word by radical and stroke count, practice online. Here’s a simple example:

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BE ONE WITH THE ‘Bi Hua’ 笔画 - where’s the 好 in life?

1. Which 部首 bu4 shou 3 is it? Does the woman or the baby come first?
Lookup the first radical
2. It was mom, three strokes. Now add the kid, that’s plus ….?
Add the stroke count for the complete character
3. Yes that was ’san’ bi hua.
Find definition
很好！

Write Chinese online from anywhere and on any computer!

One of the first challenges to writing Chinese online might be the simple fact that your computer is not configured to write in Chinese hanzi characters. This is not a tough hurdle to overcome, but sometimes it’s easiest to start with the easiest!

Here is an online resource that allows you to type pinyin, get a pick-list of hanzi characters, which are then displayed. After you’ve got all the hanzi displayed it’s as simple as copy-and-paste to that email, instant message or document that you’d like to have in hanzi, Chinese characters.

• Try it out, type in a simple ‘ni hao’ and get 你好！

Online Chinese Generator Tool: Write Chinese Hanzi from any Keyboard

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/webime2.php?ime=mand_simp

Chinese 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/