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Great Tool For Learning Chinese

Cully · 2008-11-20 11:46:42

There's a firefox addon which is very good for learning chinese as it pops up the english for any chinese character you point at. You can easily turn it on and off without too much annoyance. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/policy/0/3349/31515 Of course.. then you'll need to find some chinese websites to…

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Cully

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There's a firefox addon which is very good for learning chinese as it pops up the english for any chinese character you point at. You can easily turn it on and off without too much annoyance.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/policy/0/3349/31515

Of course.. then you'll need to find some chinese websites to start reading.... I recommend... www.6park.com

Enjoy

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#2 20-11-2008 12:35PM

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Thanks very much, thats going to be a very useful tool for me.

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#3 20-11-2008 12:47PM

Cully

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Supercell wrote: »

Thanks very much, thats going to be a very useful tool for me.

Great The handy thing about it is that you can *try* to read it yourself, then hover over the character when you are stuck.

Of course if you are looking to just translate a whole website, just use the google translation tools.. but remember that sentences in chinese are formed much differently, so they will be scary to read in english.

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