Grizzly Pear

I’ve been looking around a bit about chinese-english online dictionaries…and wow….www.nciku.com seems like one of the best. It seems to have some trouble doing some searches cause apparently their servers are overloaded, but you can search with english or chinese text, pinyin, and even drawing in characters. The definitiong come out pretty thoroughly and include audio and stroke order animations and a rudimentary character composition chart (which is the weakest feature fo the bunch). Throw in easy to manage vocab lists to the mix and a lot of sample conversations and stuff and its one hell of a package.

And its all for free at the moment. For what its worth the other site of note is skritter but its a pay site and not as much a dictionary, but in the end, I’ll most likely default to flashcards on quarter size index cards, but its amazing what online stuff is coming out now….and once phone and touchscreen apps become mature its really going to be a sea change in how this stuff is taught.

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