Chinese speakers - English to pinyin program/website?

[AnthroAndStargate]

For all the Chinese-Mandrain speakers of ATOT, do any of you know of a good website/program that lets you type in an English word and have it output the pinyin word/phrase?

I am in China doing some research but my Chinese has gotten really rusty and I could use a tool to lookup certain words that I don't know/have forgotten.

???!

 

[ManSnake]

First entry on Google.

 

[nn2000]

use google
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

 

[Leros]

http://www.zhongwen.com/

I don't speak Chinese and I have no idea how this site works, but I think it may be useful.

 

[effee]

my chinese is not good

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Leros
http://www.zhongwen.com/

I don't speak Chinese and I have no idea how this site works, but I think it may be useful.

awesome website...I use it all the time

and technically your ??/?? is not ??

?????

 

[Pepsei]

i read the title as your chinese painting is not good.

i used to do the cut and paste method to input chinese. which is pain and tedious... no one ever taught me the correct input method. ( i guess that's why i couldn't get a technical job in taipei and work from home in the states).

i have a new touch pad that my relative got for me from chinese, the land of cheap software, for only $7 US, i can "write" chinese on it and it'll show up.

?????

 

[voodoojc]

I like this website:
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

English to Simplified/Traditional Chinese characters, pinyin, and definition. You can also write in a chinese character (with your mouse) and translate to english.

 

[sao123]

Is it difficult to learn to speak and read chinese from scratch?

 

[Flammable]

Originally posted by: sao123
Is it difficult to learn to speak and read chinese from scratch?

over 10k characters....to be able to understand a newspaper you need to know at least 3000

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Flammable

Originally posted by: sao123
Is it difficult to learn to speak and read chinese from scratch?

over 10k characters....to be able to understand a newspaper you need to know at least 3000

it sounds worse than it is. to read an english newspaper you need to know a lot of words too. once you have enough basic knowledge of chinese characters, you'll find them to be usually no more than 2 dimensional spelling.

as for whether it is difficult... probably yeah since it is rather different. I'm sure it'd be more difficult than french or something for a native english speaker.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: Flammable

Originally posted by: sao123
Is it difficult to learn to speak and read chinese from scratch?

over 10k characters....to be able to understand a newspaper you need to know at least 3000

it sounds worse than it is. to read an english newspaper you need to know a lot of words too. once you have enough basic knowledge of chinese characters, you'll find them to be usually no more than 2 dimensional spelling.

as for whether it is difficult... probably yeah since it is rather different. I'm sure it'd be more difficult than french or something for a native english speaker.

Well for starters... the symbols are just plain different...

Wheel of Fortune in Chinese...
I'd like to buy a upside down house with a cow on top...