Friday, March 19, 2010

Mandarin: it's more than just an orange.

Turns out there are some pretty nice tools for learning Chinese. One is a Firefox addon that translates from Japanese, Chinese or Korean to English just by holding the cursor over the word. I'm trying to learn Mandarin and this is pretty much the most handy thing ever. You can find more about it at Perapera-kun and you can find the addon itself here.
The other is an excellent podcast called Popup Chinese. The Absolute Beginner and Elementary episodes are to the point and entertaining enough to keep listening to. If you're interested the website is at http://popupchinese.com/.

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