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by Dave Flynn | 29th November, 2010 | Software, Web | 3 Comments
Tools Roundup for Reading Chinese Online
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4Reading Chinese online is a great way to practiceyour reading and comprehension, but nothing is moredaunting than arriving at a web page only to begreeted by a wall of Chinese characters. Here is a list of some browser extensions andonline tools that you can use to make reading Chinese online a lot easier!
Some of the following tools and utilities we have looked at in the past, but here wehave gathered them together into one easy to reference post (plus there are also a fewmore tips on how to use the services):
Chinese PopUp Translations
Having an instant nonintrusive method to translate words on a Chinese web page isessential, the last thing you want to have to do is navigate away from the page you arereading, or have to open a new tab to find the word in a dictionary. By using abrowser plugin you can get an immediate translation directly on the web page you arereading, without leaving the page, this is by far the most helpful type of tool forreading Chinese online.
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You can use popup translations either for checking the meanings of words, or, as thewords are highlighted as you hover over them, you can use this just for seeing whichwords go together in a sentence.
Probably the best plugin for achieving this in Firefox is Pera Pera Kun, and in GoogleChrome you can use Zhongwen: A ChineseEnglish Popup Dictionary.
If you are in Firefox using Pera pera Kun then it’s worth noting that after you installthe plugin you will need to install the Chinese dictionary separately.
Chinese Text and Website Annotation
If you’d rather have the pronunciation appear next to each word, rather than have tohover over the words individually, then the Mandarin Spot annotation tool is for you.This isn’t a browser plugin, so it doesn’t matter what browser you are using or whatOS you are in. All you have to do is paste some text into the Mandarin Spotannotation tool, choose the pronunciation system you’d like and then press‘annotate’. You will be provided with inline pronunciation, popup translations whenyou hover over the words, as well as an English translation – and if you selected the ‘For Printing’ option you can also chose to have all the vocabulary for HSK levelslisted below.
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Convert to Traditional or Simplified Chinese
If you are serious about learning Chinese then at some point or other you are bound tocome across that “other” Chinese, be it Traditional if you learnt Simplified or viceversa. Regardless of how easy people say it is to learn the other Chinese, nothingbeats being able to immediately convert a whole website into either Traditional orSimplified depending on your preference. New Tong Wen Tang is a great tool forthis, and is available as a browser plugin for Firefox, Chrome and Safari, in additionto a Bookmarklet in case you are in IE or other browser, simply drag the 繁 and 簡buttons to your bookmark bar and click to convert to the desired Chinese.
Listen to web pages with Text To Speech (TTS)
If you want to practice your listening ability for short paragraphs of text when your
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Chinese speaking friends or teacher isn’t around to help, then Text To Speech is agreat option. If you’re using Firefox then you can take advantage of the freeIMTranslator plugin, all you need to do is highlight some Chinese text and then rightclick on the page and choose ImTranslator Tools > ImTranslator TTS. Then when thenew window opens select Chinese from the Language drop down menu and thenpress the Say It button.
This is by no means meant to be an extensive list, rather a selection of plugins andservices that are known to be very useful and easy to use. If you know of any toolsthat we have missed then please share the love and let us know below!
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technology. Originally from the UK, he's been living in Taiwanand learning Mandarin Chinese for the last eight years. Hefounded and runs Chinese Hacks, a blog dedicated to effectivelylearning Chinese.
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1. Dillon 4th October, 2011 at 8:22 am
Thanks, I’ve added Tong Wen Tang to Firefox to give it a spin Always looking for new Chinese tools.
2. Marvin_The_Depressed 3rd February, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Pera Pera kun works now in Chrome, too!
Dave Flynn 6th February, 2012 at 5:05 am
Hi Marvin,Yep, that was great news for Chrome users, we covered itin a post here too:http://chinesehacks.com/resources/software/peraperafinallyreleasedforgooglechrome/
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