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Why is the US also referred to as 米国?

October 13, 2011 at 06:36 PM

米国, 美国, is 米国 a disparaging term for the US? Read more

Resultative Complements

October 07, 2011 at 01:36 PM

大家好， I've just started Chinese this year and am a little confused about the following; 我找到一个好老师。 vs... 我找了一个好老师。    What is the difference in meaning hap... Read more

What does 大雁队形 mean?

October 06, 2011 at 12:03 PM

不知各位大雁队形们对乔布斯去世有无感想，想象一下自己？ I translated this as I wonder what everydone thinks about Steve Jobs passing away? I wonder myself. But 大雁 translate to big geese -... Read more

What are the best offline desktop Chinese dictionaries?

October 02, 2011 at 12:39 PM

There is the mdbg offline dictionary for $20. Is it worth it? http://xiaocidian.com/ is free. Any other suggestions? This is for a Mac, Snow Leopard or Lion. Read more

Is this internet slang?

September 29, 2011 at 03:52 PM

Got this from Google+. The context is a post about a wife who finds his husband was cheating via car crash. This is a response: 心疼啊。。。回家估计这两口子一算，又TMD给4S店做贡献了 TMD - d... Read more

What is the best idiom dictionary?

September 28, 2011 at 12:01 PM

There are many, but most are just lists. The popular dictionaries have idioms, but they don't seem to have them all. Any suggestions? Read more

How would you translate this?

September 23, 2011 at 09:19 PM

How would you translate this? I'm oversimplifying a bit here probably.   当 iPhone 或者 iPod touch 接近人手一台的时候，我就换回了android。   When I try the iPhone or iPod Tou... Read more

Best Online Dictionaries

September 06, 2011 at 06:51 PM

I use these - any other recommendations? http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php http://www.nciku.com/ http://www.visualmandarin.com/tools/dictionary/ http://dict.... Read more

Know how to produce stroke-order sheets?

September 05, 2011 at 12:48 AM

Hi everyone, I had been using hanlexon.org to make character stroke-order sheets for free. They seem to be malfunctioning as they can only produce question marks at... Read more

How to type traditional characters?

September 02, 2011 at 02:15 AM

I have been typing simplified characters for a few years now. For the first time ever, I need to type traditional characters as well. I went under the language setti... Read more