For Learners

LINKS FOR CHINESE LANGUAGE LEARNING
APPs FOR CHINESE LEARNING
Beginning Learners:Intermediate Learners:
  • Pleco, http://www.pleco.com/pleco2ip.html, a great dictionary app with handwriting input and live camera-based character recognition.
  • Nciku, The nciku Chinese dictionary lets you look up Chinese and English words to see translations, pinyin, examples and stroke order animations, as well as listen to audio pronunciations of words and examples.
  • QQ International, http://download.imqq.com/download.shtml, is the international version of QQ, the most popular Instant Messenger tool in China. It's available in English, Japanese and French and lets you connect with over 500 million registered Chinese QQ users to chat, join community groups or improve your Chinese.
Advanced Learners:
  • 微博 app: Chinese version of Twitter
  • The Financial Times (FT) chinese version, m.ftchinese.com/ipad.html. You can choose to display the news in Chinese with the English version along side it. It’s particularly useful for newspaper reading class
  • PPTV网络电视,http://www.pptv.com/, watch movies, soaps, sports, kungfu, and many more in Chinese.