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Here’s an interesting video I just came across on youtube. It’s some dude in Hong Kong who has produced (with no insignificant effort) short videos of Cantonese language tips. He’s even got his own green screen and everything!

I feel like I should be making fun of him somehow… But it’s actually pretty good. Well done, PFM!

I found this site when I was looking for Japanese study tools last month. It’s pretty awesome for studying Japanese and English, but I was kinda surprised to see that they did have some Mandarin lessons on there as well. Users can generate lessons in not only languages, but pretty much anything — and that’s really exciting.

Anyway check it out for yourselves, and let me know what you think: http://www.iknow.co.jp

I’ll be doing a fuller review on my new CNet blog Tokyo Shift in the next week or so, so keep an eye out for that. It looks like a way cool service, so I thought I’d write a quick note on here as well. Here’s a demo:

If you’re in Dalian and you’re studying Chinese, you might want to give this lady a call. She’s an awesome teacher, and me and Rika have studied with her for a while. Drop her a line via email (nuoyan.gu[at]163.com), or get in touch on facebook:

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Chinese Input Method Editors

• 50. Chinese Input Editor for Linux
• 51. Google’s IME
• 52. Wubihua – Chinese input
• 53. Sogou.com’s IME
• 54. IME for XP or here

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Hope some of you out there will find this list handy. If you have any others to add, please suggest it in the comments.

Chinese Online Dictionaries

1. MDGB Chinese Language Dictionary
2. Nciku – A neato 2.0 Dictionary
3. Kaide’s Dictionary
4. ChinaLanguage.com Chinese Character Dictionary
5. Dict.cn
6. English-Chinese Online Dictionary
7. Chinese-Dictionary.org
8. Zdic.net Chinese Dictionary
9. Lost Laowai Lictionary – “Life in China” Dictionary

Podcasts

(h/t to oculture.com for most of these)

10. Learn Chinese Online Podcast iTunes
11. Serge Melnyk Podcast iTunes
12. ChinesePod.com iTunes
13. iMandarinPod.com iTunes
14. LearnChinesePod.com iTunes
15. Mandarin Chinese Conversation iTunes
16. Mandarin Chinese Lessons from the Peace Corps
17. Survival Phrases iTunes
18. CSLpod – Chinese as a Second Language Podcast
19. WorldLearner Chinese iTunes
20. Podlook.com – Chinese podcasts

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Recently featured on Gizmodo, here’s an interesting keyboard which will recognized hand-written Chinese characters.

Of course, most people would never bother with such as thing when Chinese input editors are so easy to use these days.

But who knows? Maybe it might be of interest to some of you readers out there who are studying chinese as a second language.
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