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If you speak Chinese, or are learning, and you are interested in Corpus Linguistics. I was just given this great link to the Chinese National Corpus. Held in Beijing University, this link will take you out of my page. Right click and open in a new window to keep this page open:

http://ccl.pku.edu.cn:8080/ccl_corpus/jsearch/index.jsp?dir=xiandai

Another great resource which I frequently use is the below online dictionary, this link will take you out of my page. Right click and open in a new window to keep this page open:

www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

However, I do think that generally the resources from Chinese to English are far far poorer than English to Chinese. I think this is due to the fact that up to recently not much translation has taken place from Chinese to English. The worst aspect for me when I translate is that something may be translated wrongly even in reliable sources like bilingual dictionaries. So every single term needs to be extensivly checked.

http://www.sinosplice.com/

Sinosplice really shows how much better it is when stuff is written by native English speakers. The section on phonetics is the clearest I have seen, there are interesting book reviews, and some funny stuff. It's not a good site for heavy academic research but it is fascinating and makes a good starting point. We need more sites like this:

 

 

 

 

 

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