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06 Aug 08
Facebook | Message: Some good videos
Some interviews - perhaps useful for learning spoken Mandarin. I haven't seen them yet. Recommended by Paul Zhou.
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Jason Zhang, His firm has been growing much more these few years.
21 Aug 07
MDBG Chinese-English dictionary
looks useful
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Search by Chinese, Pinyin or English Definition
07 Aug 06
Chinese Annotation Tool - Free Online Tools
This is a very powerful free tool to help a beginner read online Mandarin texts.
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automatically marking up the words in a simplified Chinese text with their pronunciations in pinyin and dictionary definitions
What does a Chinese keyboard look like? By Daniel Engber
Typing in the PRC
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If he knows what he's doing, a Wubi typist can produce up to 160 characters per minute.
Logogram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
what are these characters, then?
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Although the perception of most Westerners is that most characters were derived in single-body fashion, pictograms and ideograms actually take up but a small proportion of Chinese logograms. More productive for the Chinese script were the two "compound" methods, i.e. the character was created from assembling different characters.
16 Jun 06
Learn Chinese at ecChinese.com
talking flashcards in Flash - I am not sure why they are giving this away for free, and paying for Google Adwords. Anyway - the accents sounds good, if the downloads are a little slow.
Learn Chinese with Clavis Sinica Chinese language reading and dictionary software
This Windows and MacOS software sounds very useful for learning written Mandarin.
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Just click on an unknown character to see its English definition, pinyin pronunciation, and the meaning of the compound in which it is used.
Chinese Flashcards Applet
Doesn't seem to work in Java 1.5 for Linux
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The Chinese Flashcards applet should now appear on this page
23 Nov 05
Linux Chinese HOWTO English Version
This is 7 years old but should have some basic background reading.
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This document demonstrates how to implement Chinese available on Linux system, including those common problems encountered on Linux/UNIX system while using Chinese, the ways to obtain, and shows how to install and setup a variety of different Chinese softwares.
Mandarin (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Good version of this article. A simple language map of China is also included.
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Běifānghuà [listen ▶(?)], lit. "Northern speech" or 北方方言 Hanyu Pinyin: Běifāng Fāngyán, lit. "Northern dialects"), is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. Mandarin can also refer to Standard Mandarin, which is based on the Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing. Standard Mandarin is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China—where it is known as Putonghua (literally, "the common tongue") —and the Republic of China (Taiwan)—where it is known as Guoyu (Kuo-yü, literally, "the national tongue").
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Běifānghuà [listen ▶(?)], lit. "Northern speech" or 北方方言 Hanyu Pinyin: Běifāng Fāngyán, lit. "Northern dialects"), is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. Mandarin can also refer to Standard Mandarin, which is based on the Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing. Standard Mandarin is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China—where it is known as Putonghua (literally, "the common tongue") —and the Republic of China (Taiwan)—where it is known as Guoyu (Kuo-yü, literally, "the national tongue").
Pinyin--Chinese phonetics
More sounds files. MP3 form so easy to download for a handheld.
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(2)You can also know the standard sounds by downloading the mp3 sample files.
Pin Yin Practice Sheet:
Several pages of practice syllables with RealAudio sound files
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Click the relevant syllable in the table below to get the right pronunciation.
English words from Chinese
It helps a bit to be reminded of Chinese words we already know.
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安 ān - peace, calm • Tiananmen
案 àn - case, plan • koan
白 bái - white • bok choy, pekoe
板 bǎn - plank • sampan
保 bǎo - defend • kung pao
sinosplice | language | Pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese | Page 3: Phonetics
First time I found a sensible plain English pronunciation guide that helps me see why I have sounded so un-Chinese up to now. At least I was getting 'r' right :)
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These new sounds (j, q, x, r in particular) will feel very awkward at first, and if you've been producing them incorrectly for some time already, the crossover will take some time. Be patient with yourself, and be dilligent in your pronunciation. The rewards will come eventually, as your Mandarin starts to sound more and more authentic.
Yingzi
Funny and educational demonstration about the Chinese writing system if it was applied to English.
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It would be awfully confusing to use for all of these. Instead we'll use it only for king, which will be the phonetic for this set, and add little signs called radicals to distinguish the rest. Examples:
* sing will be , formed by adding the mouth radical
* sting will be , formed by adding the bug radical (since insects sting)
* shing (the first syllable in shingle) will be , formed using the roof radical
* sling will be formed using the spear radical.
When we add a radical, we scrunch up the yingzi so the whole thing still fits into a square. All characters, however complex, fit into the same size box.
04 Nov 05
Unicode Code Charts - Scripts
Place to download PDF charts of the characters in Unicode. Annoyingly, it refers to Chinese Japanese and Korean characters as ideographs.
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European Alphabets African Scripts Indic Scripts East Asian Scripts Central Asian Scripts
(see also Comb. Marks) Ethiopic Bengali Han Ideographs Kharoshthi
Armenian Ethiopic Devanagari Unified CJK Ideographs (5MB) Mongolian
Armenian Ethiopic Supplement Gujarati CJK Ideographs Ext. A (2MB) Phags-Pa (5.0)
Armenian Ligatures Ethiopic Extended Gurmukhi CJK Ideographs Ext. B (13MB) Tibetan
Where is my Character?
A guide to finding the right glyphs in a way that you can have of a hope of being portable.
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If you are trying to find a specific character in Unicode, the first place to go is to the code charts. These are in the published The Unicode Standard 4.1 (Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0-321-18578-1). You can also find characters in the online code charts.
30 Oct 05
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
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Can you imagine three Ph.D. students in English at Harvard forgetting how to write the English word "sneeze"??
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Can you imagine three Ph.D. students in English at Harvard forgetting how to write the English word "sneeze"??...Not so with Chinese, where your intonational contours must always obey the tonal constraints of the specific words you've chosen. Chinese speakers, of course, can express all of the intonational subtleties available in non-tonal languages -- it's just that they do it in a way that is somewhat alien to us speakers of non-tonal languages. ...when Americans and Chinese get together, there is often not just a language barrier, but an immense cultural barrier as well. Of course, this is one of the reasons the study of Chinese is so interesting. It is also one of the reasons it is so damn hard....But I still feel reasonably confident in asserting that, for an average American, Chinese is significantly harder to learn than any of the other thirty or so major world languages that are usually studied formally at the university level (though Japanese in many ways comes close)..."Shh -- not so loud!" says the director, "If you don't tell them it's difficult, they never know."
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What is QQ? - Learning Chinese Using QQ
Is there anything Gaim doesn't do?
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*However* you can get it running on Linux by using Gaim and the OpenQ plugin.
If you are using Linux, check out:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openq/
As for chinese input methods on Linux, Search for "pinyin" on sourceforge.net, you'll find heaps.
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