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fortunately the gigantic barrier of the horrible writing system is starting to crumble down thanks to technology. You can now search for words using pinjin, vo
by singularity2001 8y ago
fortunately the gigantic barrier of the horrible writing system is starting to crumble down thanks to technology.
You can now search for words using pinjin, voice or drawing (thanks Pleko).
And if you encounter unknown printed(!) signs you can just point your camera at it (now or soon, what's currently the best app?).
As for calligraphic handwriting this will forever remain elusive. You may consider it as an utterly useless hobby.
As much as I despise Siri, one things she is surprisingly capable of is answering: "hey Siri what does sneeze mean in Chinese"
- Tor3 8y agoTechnology certainly helps for Japanese.. when I hear a word I don't understand (e.g. from my wife), I enter it as it sounds and the dictionary gives me a nice (often short) list of translations, with hiragana, katakana, and kanji. And, due to my RtK studies (see earlier posts) I often get an 'aha' moment when I see the kanji. If what you described works similarly for Chinese then yes, it's a real game changer.