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This looks like a great tool. I have two questions: 1. Can it translate characters to pinyin? I can speak more Mandarin than I can read, so being able to see p
by mojoe 12y ago
This looks like a great tool. I have two questions:
1. Can it translate characters to pinyin? I can speak more Mandarin than I can read, so being able to see phonetics would be really useful to me.
2. Do you know of any online stores that sell DRM-free Mandarin ebooks that could be used with your tool?
- imron 12y ago1) No, and partly on purpose. It's impossible to get 100% accuracy with automatic character->pinyin converters, and is very easy to get incorrect values even for common words and I believe this is a danger for new learners and so for the moment have not implemented this. At some point I hope to start creating curated content with the tool and that will be able to provide the full, correct pinyin. In the meantime, it does have the ability to show pinyin definitions for individual words (rather than bulk conversion), and it can export tab-separated lists of all unknown/looked up words, including with pinyin, definition, sentences containing the word (with or without cloze deletion) and more, which can then be imported in a flashcard program such as Pleco or Anki. 2) I'm not sure off the top of my head of any Mandarin ebook stores, but this thread on Chinese-Forums has a few suggestions (some of which may now be out of date so check towards the end for more recent sources): http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/34090-best-source-for-chinese-ebooks/ http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/34090-best-so...
- mojoe 12y agoCool, thanks for creating this tool!