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Inputting Chinese characters

If you are learning Chinese then chances are that before too long you will want to write in Chinese using the computer. Assuming you are looking for a tool that allows you to write in Chinese as easily as it to write in roman script, then what you are looking for is a Chinese IME [...]

Skritter review – a great way of learning how to write Chinese characters

Learning how to write Chinese characters is hard, and we can use all the help we can get. Skritter (http://www.skritter.cn) is a website that uses some clever web coding to create a novel way of helping you learn characters. The strongest feature of Skritter in my opinion is its tool for Chinese character writing with [...]

How to learn Chinese characters (p-1)

If you are a westerner then learning Chinese characters is going to be hard and require months and years of study. But there are many things you can do to make the task slightly easier. One resource that I have been recently using is a book called “Rembering Simplified Hanzi 1” by Heisig and Richardson. [...]

Chinese Character of the week – 糟糕：‘Oh no!How terrible’!

My favourite Chinese character of this week: Zāo gāo 糟糕 ‘Oh no!’ ‘How terrible!’ Have I had a bad week? Well, no, not really, but I did have a ‘糟糕’ moment related to trying (and I use that word deliberately!) to bake a cake in a toaster oven. Although it seems like a pretty complicated (or messy!) [...]

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