nciku.com nciku Free Online Mandarin Chinese Handwriting Recognition, Conversations, Radical Dictionary
Summary
nciku is a sweet tool for learning Mandarin Chinese online which encourages collective user activity to create a wealth of educational material.
Of special note at nciku.com is the handwriting recognition tool, which allows you to write in characters with your mouse. Using this, you can further benefit from their radical dictionary, which provides audio samples in addition to defining the radicals and showing how their various forms are written. Sorting of radicals by stroke number is also available.
As nciku grows, their conversations, Q&A and theme words sections will surely expand into a considerable, lively and up-to-date resource for the many subtleties of learning Mandarin.
The nciku blog is quite informative, keeping you up to date on happenings at nciku.com as well as tidbits about everyday usage of Mandarin Chinese, such as this article about saying "excuse me" while navigating through a crowd.
nciku also offers a mobile version of their site.
From Website
nciku is a free, online dictionary that supports Chinese and English. New dictionary entries and other custom content is uploaded daily to help you realize your language learning goals. These are some of the many features that make nciku a great place to improve your language ability:
- Handwriting Recognition - The easiest way to find Chinese characters
- Q&A - Participate in discussions about anything Chinese or China related
- Vocab Lists - Words you search are automatically saved for you in your page
- Memorization Tests - Learn new words and track your progress with 4 different tests
- Pinyin with Sound - See and hear the pronunciation for all examples and conversations
- Conversations - Study, edit and save real-life phrases
Mandarin Chinese Language
Submitted by polyglot on Sat, 2008-01-05 00:14.
