View Content #3890
| Contentid | 3890 |
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| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Chinese Character Database Project |
| Body | I'd like to point out a project that we here at Colby are working on, in conjunction with the LRC at the University of Connecticut. The Bihua Project (http://studio.colby.edu/chinese) is a free resource, a searchable database that returns links to quicktime movies demonstrating stroke order and native speaker pronunciation of hanzi characters. Our inventory is far from exhaustive, but it's growing. If you or your school is using Integrated Chinese as your primary text, you'll find that our inventory closely matches that of the IC text, and we are working on the ability to sort/search by IC chapter #. Unfortunately this project has lost some of its early momentum, largely due to demands on my time supporting other areas of the curriculum at my institution, but there is interest here in bringing it back to life. I should mention that Bihua is an open-content project, and we welcome co-developers. We give away for free all the content we have made, and reveal our methodology. Our developers page needs to be updated as we have streamlined a lot since then. One recent advance is that the bar for participation is lower: you need some student labor (native Chinese speakers), a Mac (OSX), and a Mimio board _or_ Wacom tablet. Any interested party can drop me an email offlist to join the project (zechandl@colby.edu). If we add another development partner, or get more vocal users (tell us what needs fixing), maybe we will get up the steam needed to get this project moving again. Cheers, Zach Chandler Colby College LRC http://www.colby.edu/lrc http://studio.colby.edu zechandl@colby.edu Chandler, Z. Re: #8098.1 S/W to Chinese long form characters (!). Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum. LLTI@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU (7 Dec/ 2005). |
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| Inputdate | 2005-12-07 15:05:00 |
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