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Fuzzy Pinyin

This is a screenshot from the Google Pinyin installer: If you’re learning Mandarin for real, sooner or later you’re going to need to experience the rich variety in pronunciation that Greater China has to offer. This simple “fuzzy... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Tue, Sep 08 2009

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02 Jun 08 visit learning mandarin chinese pinyin  »  YouTube videoa series of learning mandarin Chinese pinyin video clips for beginners, especially for children.
11 Feb 09 visit Mark’s New Pinyin Input Firefox Extension  »  Sinosplice My friend Mark has created a FireFox addon. It does one thing and it does it well: it converts onscreen text from numeral pinyin to pretty pinyin with tone marks.  (It doesn’t convert characters to pinyin or any of that jazz.) I find this ver...
27 Aug 09 visit Google Pinyin for the HTC Hero  »  Sinosplice I got the Google Pinyin input working for my HTC Hero Android phone. It turned out to be quite simple. The only two things holding me back were (1) a bad install of Google Pinyin, and (2) lack of proper documentation for switching input methods. When I...
12 Apr 07 visit Google Sogou Pinyin is also pretty good  »  bokane After the whole kerfluffle where it turned out that Google copied all or some of its wordlist from Sogou’s Pinyin method, I decided to download the Sogou IME at work and give it a spin. Results: 听完了这个消息我便下 载了搜狗的拼音输...
09 Apr 07 visit Google apologizes to Sohu: 'Oops, didn't mean to steal your code'  »  Shanghaiist When Google released its Google Pinyin (GP), Shanghaiist cheered. But was it really Google’s Pinyin we were cheering for? Let us explain. After last week’s launch, many Chinese users noticed an eerie similarity between GP and Sogou Pinyin, a rival I...
10 Feb 08 visit After 50 years, pinyin still rules  »  Shanghai Daily HANYU Pinyin, the Chinese phonetic system, celebrates its 50th anniversary today. About one billion Chinese have used it to learn Mandarin since the first edition of pinyin was issued in 1958. "Pinyin is useful ... it helps us to learn Chinese...

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