Software

The Chinese software is call Pleco. See www.pleco.com for more info. To summarize, it works on most current versions of Palm Pilots and Pocket PCs (see the website for recommendations on older models). It has character recognition, which is verrrrry nice. It has a couple dictionaries. Can look up in English, pingyin, traditional or simplified characters...

This site was established to help you read and write Chinese in your Western-language version of Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.

These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language. From the novice Chinese language student to the advanced programmer, I hope there is something here for everyone. Rather than being a Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese.

Click the pen icon to see the animated stoke order. Click the speaker icon to hear its pronunciation.

Adsotrans a resource for speakers of Chinese as a second language. It has a lot of experimental language learning tools I've been working on, including a library of adsotated Chinese texts, Chinese games, and NewsinChinese. You can listen to Chinese music, build private vocabulary lists, play customized games, listen to recordings, and do it all in pinyin, traditional or simplified Chinese

It shows the evolvement of the Chinese character from the picture drawing to the current form.