Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.
Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.
好好学习！
Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.
Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.
好好学习！
Hello again,
We just added another new feature to nciku. Now, when you look up a word in the dictionary, read posts on the nciku Q&A board or look through our Chinese conversations and theme words, you’ll see another small search bar at the bottom left of your screen.
Entering a word into this search bar will launch the nciku embedded dictionary - a convenient mini-dictionary to help you look up any unknown words you find in a dictionary definition or Q&A post, without having to leave the page you’re currently on. Once the dictionary area is open, you can automatically look up words and see their meaning just by highlighting them on the page with your mouse.
Another feature of the embedded dictionary is “voice mode” - when you click the speaker icon next to the search bar or the voice tab at the top of the dictionary area, you can hear the English or Chinese pronunciation of a word or sentence using nciku’s Text to Speech system.
We hope you find the embedded dictionary useful - as always, if you have any questions or problems about this feature, please let us know.
Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.
Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.
好好学习！
If you were active on the nciku Q&A board last week, you might be one of the lucky winners who will receive nciku prizes including watches, mouse mats, ballpoint pens !! Winners will be contacted by email to receive their prizes.
For more information about the game, please refer to the previous post “Win Special Gifts With The new Q&A board!“.
Don’t forget, we will select new winners every week for the next 3 weeks and finally choose the monthly winners at the end of July. May the best posters win!
Weekly Stars !
| Rank |
User ID |
Nickname |
| 1 |
wei-en |
熊 |
| 2 |
nooblin |
nooblin |
| 3 |
nastroche |
lisa |
| 4 |
lin_821109 |
叔惠 |
| 5 |
eureka7 |
交响诗篇 |
| 6 |
ptwxs.hk |
ptwxs |
| 7 |
nydia.1986 |
nydia.1986 |
Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.
Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.
好好学习！
Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.
Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.
好好学习！
Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.
Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.
好好学习！
Since we launched the new nciku design, we have received a few emails from people who are having trouble using some of the features of our English website or finding it slower than usual. The most problematic features are vocab lists, search and the text-to-speech system. We suspect that this is related to our caching service provider.
Here’s a typical example of these problems:
…I am having problems with accessing my vocabulary lists, only Default vocabulary list is displayed and does not switch to a selected one. Vocabulary tests are functioning OK, but I cannot see the content of the list I wish to test. Could it be something connected with the recent new design? I suppose the problem is not on my side because it is the same thing with two different web browsers…
We are looking into this issue to find a solution – if you experience any errors like the one above, and clearing your web browser’s cache / temporary internet files* doesn’t solve the problem, it would be really useful if you could let us know by sending an email to help@nciku.com with the following information:
- Any JavaScript errors on the page:
On Firefox, press Control+Shift+J to open the Error Console, clear the list of errors and reload the nciku page that is causing you problems, then copy or take a screenshot of any errors that appear.
In Internet Explorer, if you see an icon in the bottom left of the screen with an “error in page” message, double-click that icon and take a screen capture of the error message.
- Your location: your country, province/state and city
- Command line information:
On Windows, click the ’start’ button, then ‘Run…’ on the right column, then type “cmd” and click ‘ok’. In the command window, type:
• “ipconfig /all” and press ‘Enter’
• “nslookup www.nciku.com” and press ‘Enter’
• “ping www.nciku.com” and press ‘Enter’
• “tracert www.nciku.com” and press ‘Enter’
On Mac, in graphical interface, click find, then applications > utilities > terminal
• ifconfig -a
• nslookup www.nciku.com
• ping www.nciku.com
• traceroute www.nciku.com
Take screen captures of all the results displaying on that window or right click on the window, press ‘select all’ then press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘c‘ to copy and send it to us.
Thanks for bearing with us as we try to figure this issue out as soon as possible. We will keep you updated with whatever new information we have.
* To clear your Temporary Internet Files in Internet Explorer, go to the “Tools” menu, click “Options”, and click “Delete Files” in the “Temporary Internet Files” area of the General” tab. In Firefox, go to “Tools”, select “Clear Private Data” and tick the box that says “Cache”. It would be useful for us to know if this solves your problem – if it does, please send us a quick email or comment letting us know.
Update:
As suspected, this issue is related to our caching service provider, so the only information we need now is your IP address and location.
Update 2:
Sorry, it turns out we still need the results from your command line window after all. Please send it along with letting us know what problem you are having and if it only occurs on nciku.com or also on nciku.cn
Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.
Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.
好好学习！
