• Are you a student willing to pass your Chinese language exams (HSK)?
• Do you have to assimilate basic Chinese very fast for business reasons?
• Do you expect to travel in China and/or discover the Chinese culture?
• Learn Chinese 2008 will help you enhance your fluency in Chinese and follow your progression :

  Beginner : Focus on the most frequent characters
  Intermediate : Regularly Add words to your custom word lists to follow your progress
  Advanced : Find any character in the 25,000-word dictionary using the search engine

Real Kana

Hiragana and Katakana Practice

This site lets you practice learning hiragana and katakana, the two Japanese syllabaries.

It’s easy to use.  Click ‘Hiragana’ and/or ‘Katakana’ and choose which characters you’d like to practice.

Then, click ‘Practice’.  As you are presented with each character, type its rōmaji equivalent (e.g., ‘ka’).

If you get stuck, move your mouse over the character, and the answer will appear.

That’s it!

Practice Kanji by Typing Hiragana

This site lets you practice learning kanji by typing hiragana.

It’s easy to use.  Click ‘Kanji’ and choose which kanji words you’d like to practice.

Next, click ‘Practice’.  As you are presented with each word, type its rōmaji equivalent (e.g., ‘genki’).

As you type, hiragana characters will appear.  Hit ‘Enter’ to submit your guess.

If you get stuck, move your mouse over the word, and the answer will appear.

That’s it!

Zhongwen.com contains the complete text of Amazon's best-selling and best-reviewed : Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary using my character tree system. Distributed by Yale Univ. Press.

If you are learning Chinese characters, you will find this Visual Dictionary very entertaining. Over 6000 characters are nicely ordered (by frequency of use) in a beautiful interface, you can easily navigate through and hear the sound of each character and even see the English translation… This is also a great tool to gauge how many Chinese characters you actually know.

This page allows you to easily type accents and other  characters without an adapted keyboard. You can edit your text in the box and then copy it to your e-mail application, word processor.(French, German, Polish ...)