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Google isn’t your friend when learning Chinese

Ninchanese December 6, 2013

When was the last time you were on a Chinese website? Not recently I bet. Why is that, you think? Here’s my guess: You seldom come across Chinese sites in your online everyday browsing experience! Why aren’t you coming across them? It’s not because they’re not popular. Quite the opposite. They’re extremely popular. In China. And, they are all in Chinese. So Google (or whatever search engine you use) pretty much ignores them. Don’t worry, though, here’s a simple hack to bring more Chinese into your online world!

Advanced, Chinese learning tips, Intermediate better, chinese learning hack, google is not helping, hanyu, language learning, learn Chinese, learn mandarin, life hacks, mandarin chinese, zhongwen, 中文汉语, 汉语

Voice recognition technology : Are dreams of a real babbel fish becoming true?

Ninchanese November 10, 2012

Microsoft has just announced a new voice recognition technology that not only translates what you’re saying into another language, rearranges the words into the other language’s correct order but also plays back the results using your own voice (see demo after the jump), making it that much more realistic. Is this going to enable us to speak Chinese without having to actually learn Chinese?

Ninchanese culture, future of language learning, language learning, microsoft, speak Chinese, speech recognition, technology