If you're studying Chinese or translating between English and Chinese then software can make your life a whole lot easier. The article includes a summary of applications for studying and translating Chinese, including links and small screenshots.
Billy Cottrell a brilliant theoretical physics student at California Institute of Technology, is serving an 8.5-year-sentence at Lompoc Federal Penitentiary for destroying $5 million worth of Hummers.
“They’ve taken every single physics text, Chinese story and piece of literature I’ve accumulated . . . and told me it’s all going to be burned.
“As far as I know,” he concluded, “I’m in the Hole for studying Chinese.”
As read at Sourced from Sinospice: Some foreign prisoners that have had the unfortunate 'luck' of finding themselves in Chinese jails have been putting their time to good use by studying for the HSK - China's language proficiency test.
Peering into the Precipice shares online tools for the Chinese learner. Some you may already know of, but there are a few gems you may not have seen before...
The Chinese languages are the third largest mother tongue group – more than a million people (1,034,000) reported a Chinese language as their mother tongue in 2006, an increase of 18.5% since 2001.
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