If you’ve checked out many online Chinese dictionaries or websites on learning Chinese, you’ve seen a variety of ways to present characters’ proper stroke order. Animated GIFs are a favorite, but they often fall flat in one important... ...full story at Sinosplice
from Sinosplice on Thu, Sep 03 2009
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