Tuesday 22 July 2008

Chinese Fonts & the MAC

Using the Chinese language on the Mac OS

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/index.html


Study tools

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/study_tools.html


nciku

nciku is a free online Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary and language learning web site for Chinese and English, based in Beijing. The excellent dictionary features example sentences, conversations, handwriting-recognition lookup, and more, with an active community of users in the forums.

http://www.nciku.com/

DimSum

Free. For OS X 10.3 and above (Java). DimSum is a CEDICT-based instant-lookup text reader. Also has the ability to add romanizations to Chinese plain-text files, RTF files, and HTML pages. Includes an array of miscellaneous tools: an abacus, flashcards, Chinese name generator, GIF creator, and various converters for currency, measures, numbers, romanizations, and encodings.

http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html


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