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| Luk Triglot Groupie Argentina Joined 5144 days ago 91 posts - 127 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian, German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 1 of 5 17 May 2011 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
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Hello everyone. I am at the beginning of my studies of Chinese (it's going to be a long road!) and I have a very specific problem: the book I like the most to learn how to write Chinese characters only teaches simplified characters.
Since I would like to learn the traditionals too, I thought about something like http://www.chinese-tools.com/ that gives you the chance not only to see them, but that shows you how to write them. Does such tool exist? For those who have already learnt the traditional ones, how did you do it? Edited by Luk on 17 May 2011 at 3:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6188 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 5 17 May 2011 at 5:24am | IP Logged |
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I use DeFrancis's readers. They use traditional characters and audio is available. You can combine that with Reading & Writing Chinese: Traditional Character Edition, which provides stroke order.
There must be some websites that provide stroke order for traditional characters, but I don't use online tools much. Maybe someone else can suggest some. Edited by newyorkeric on 17 May 2011 at 5:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6391 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 3 of 5 17 May 2011 at 7:48am | IP Logged |
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If you have a smartphone or a pad, there are plenty of apps that show stroke order. I'm sure there are websites, too, but I mostly use apps. May favorite is Pleco.
As to how I learned traditional characters, I learned them after getting comfortable with the simplified, so I just grabbed a book with trads and an electronic dictionary and started reading. And then I started learning Cantonese and writing Canto text messages to my girlfriend in Cantonese, which forced me to learn how to write them (since writing Cantonese with pinyin doesn't work very well), using the handwriting input on my smartphone. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Hierbabuena Newbie Spain Joined 4837 days ago 19 posts - 36 votes Speaks: Spanish* Studies: EnglishB2, Mandarin | Message 4 of 5 17 May 2011 at 3:23pm | IP Logged |
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http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
This dictionary shows you the stroke order for traditional and simplified characters. I'm a beginner learner too and this is the best dictionary I have found online (and free). Edited by Hierbabuena on 17 May 2011 at 3:26pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Luk Triglot Groupie Argentina Joined 5144 days ago 91 posts - 127 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian, German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 5 of 5 17 May 2011 at 4:24pm | IP Logged |
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Wow, excellent recommendations! Thanks a lot!
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