Tools and Gadgets

Beijing Sounds is an entertaining and useful blog on Chinese language and culture, written by a foreigner learning Chinese in Beijing.

You might have heard of the Astronomy Picture of the Day -- every day, NASA shares a different fascinating photograph, along with an explanation written b

Ever want to look up a character but don't know the pinyin -- know how to write it but don't want to go through searching by radical?

Hi, just wanted to share this website with everyone: http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm.

This website from the University of Maryland's National Foreign Language Center offers some pretty neat brief online supplementary readings and multimedia resources (my personal favorite: "a s

I recently came across this neat online tool: a free grid generator.

Omniglot (a very cool site about languages of the world) maintains a good list of online radio stations in many, many different languages.