Study+Tools

1. [|Learn Pinyin Online] - Want to practice Pinyin by yourself? Check this out! 2. [|Pinyin from Wikipedia] 2. [|Pinyin Editor] - this tool allows you to write pinyin with tone marks directly on your computer. 3. [|How to install Chinese input on your computer] 4. [|New Google Pinyin input software] (free) - Google's new Pinyin input software, better than Microsoft Pinyin and Ziguang Pinyin. It has both traditional and simplified characters, and you can even input sentences with the first pinyin letter 5. [|Chinese Pod] - Learn Mandarin with daily MP3 podcasts from Shanghai, China. 6. [|Jin Shan Ciba] - Dictionary 7. [|Radicals & Strokes] - On this page, you can look up radicals which are grouped by their stroke counts. 8. [|Character animation] - "Integrated Chinese" text book - The radical for each character is shown in red. To hear the pronunciation of each character, click on Pinyin. 9. [|eStroke Animated Chinese Characters] 10. [|Basic Chinese Grammar] 11. [|Learn Chinese, Ting e xià] - a new program developed by Anhui Tech Universtiy. It converts your text into audio file. 12. [|Learn Chinese through songs] - Listen to popular Chinese music and read the lyrics along with the word-by-word translation. Recommended songs are S.H.E - Superstar, Wilber Pan - Bu de bu Ai, F.I.R - Lydia, and Jolin Tsai - Shuo Ai Ni. 13. http://del.icio.us/luolaoshi - social bookmarking site. 14. [|Nciku.com], more than a dictionary. You can look up the new character without knowing Pinyin or the radical in advance. Easy and fast. Make sure you also check the notes for Chinese grammar, culture and idioms. rss url="http://laowaichinese.net/" link="true" description="true" number="10" date="true" author="true" enclosure="true"