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If you are thinking of learning Chinese/Mandarin by yourself and save some tuition money. Try out nciku, I am sure it will provide you some help. Nciku is not only a English to Chinese dictionary but you could translate pinyin to English word.
If you mouseover the Chinese character, it will provide you the pinyin, which you will be able to help you learn further. There is also help by listening to the actual Chinese Pronunciation.
You could also learn the correct method to write some Chinese character, there is flash video of how the characters is written by the stroke.
The best feature yet is the ability to accept handwritten Chinese characters with the help of flash. Look at my ugly writing of the word “Wo” that means “Me”. I am pretty bad in Chinese words, but this would definitely be useful in the future.
They are currently only in beta mode, but I am sure there is much more letters, sound and video to be included into this great English to Chinese Dictionary.
Thank you for the glowing review!
We are trying our best to make nciku the best online dictionary.
Once again, thanks for the great review!
Thanks for the nice comments about nciku. We’ve recently been adding a ton of words to our database. Also, in the last couple months we have added some new services like the MSN dictionary bot. Stop by our blog to stay up to date with what’s new at nciku.
Looks interesting but you have an idea how much time it can take to learn alone rather than having a teacher. Chinese is one of the most complicated language I know.
Ralph
Tae and Dan: not a problem, you have a great website, and I am also looking websites to improve my chinese
DWD: It is much easier if you have someone to communicate them with.
it looks like a great tool thats easy to use
but Chinese sounds so hard!! ;p
Hey also check out http://www.edufire.com to help you with your Chinese! i’m using this site to learn spanish and have been very impressed with all the free tools they offer. Just another suggestion for you, have fun and good luck!!
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