5 cool things on this website you may not know about

Cool things on this website you may not know about (or like me, you'd forgotten )

Chinese "Cross" Puzzles
You can generate an infinite number of these little puzzles to print out and learn from.



Cantonese Audio Quiz
No fuss, just click the link and listen to one of several hundred Cantonese sentences. If you can't understand it, check the answer, with a fully broken down translation.



Read external Chinese web pages with CantoDict's assistance
Parse BBC News, Wikipedia and more.



Your Own Personal Forum Quiz
As you browse our forums, answer quiz questions and get tested over the following weeks on the words you got wrong.
Please note, this is a subscriber only feature.



See Classifier detail when viewing nouns
This is a relatively new feature, so we don't have extensive data yet - but it's still pretty cool.




Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2009 07:31PM by sheik.

I've made this post, because this site is really quite large, and it's hard to keep track of what is actually here sometimes.
This came to light to me today when I was doing some CantoDict coding and I discover the Chinese Cross Puzzle script which I'd completely forgotten I'd ever made.

So, I'm thinking if I'm forgetting stuff, then some of the other old-timers on here may have done too.

And, it can't hurt for people who have newly discovered the site to see this post either.

If there are any features you particularly like about the site, please feel free to add them to this thread.
Also, if you have any ideas about how I can improve the site navigation to advertise some of the sections a bit more effectively that would also be helpful.

Thanks for listening,

/\dam

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www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk Website Administrator



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2009 07:29PM by sheik.

The tool that lets you read Chinese web pages is amazing. Very impressed. Did you write/produce the software yourself?

These things are so well hidden that I didn't even know they existed. The Chinese Webpage Parser, particularly should get more attention.

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Dong
The tool that lets you read Chinese web pages is amazing. Very impressed. Did you write/produce the software yourself?

Thanks for the kind remarks. The parser is a team effort between our dedicated Editors who provide the data, and me doing the coding.

/\dam

I really like the Cantonese audio quiz, but it seems the spoken Cantonese and transcript don't match sometimes.

For example, I came across a phrase where the speaker clearly says

你嘅教師喺邊度呀？

but the transcript is

你嘅教師係邊個呀？

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sebastian-hk
I really like the Cantonese audio quiz, but it seems the spoken Cantonese and transcript don't match sometimes.

Yes, my dad made a mistake in that one. It's on my list of examples to correct the next time I see him and we have some spare time

/\dam

Very nice

I find the website parser really useful. Your dictionary is right there on the page so there's no flipping back and forth between the dictionary and the page you're looking at. (I find the character limit a bit low though )

I had fun listening to the audio examples I gather that they're meant to have the transcripts along with them? For some reason I can't see it...

Who did you get to do the audio samples for you? By far the best speaker I heard so far was the girl.

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Nanimo
I had fun listening to the audio examples I gather that they're meant to have the transcripts along with them? For some reason I can't see it...

Who did you get to do the audio samples for you? By far the best speaker I heard so far was the girl.

Hi Nanimo!
If you are talking about this page, you should see a "Show Translation" button underneath the audioplayer, which when clicked will reveal a transcription.

Voice recordings are donated by kind volunteers - would you like to do some for us?!

/\dam

Oh yes, I see it now. I think I was expecting the button to be inside the yellow panel.

I wouldn't mind having a go at doing some recordings... I will have to see if I can find a microphone

Is there a thread for sentences that have already been done/still to do?