I'm hoping any folks who study Chinese/Japanese/Korean can help. There was a dictionary website that allowed you to search for traditional or simplified Chinese characters by Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese on/kun yomi or Korean hanja readings - I think it may have had Vietnamese lookups as well. It had the standard radical and stroke number ( Read more... )

Hello! I've been lurking for a little while and this is my first post, so first I thought I would introduce myself briefly. ( Read more... )

I recently came across an interesting book that devoted a chapter to the impact of language on learning math. It didn't come as a surprise to me that the author slated Chinese (and other Asian) students as having a natural advantage in math, because of the language they learn it in.

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I have a question concerning “schonen-ai” and “yaoi” -Mangas ( Read more... )

I've been living in Korea for about 3 weeks, and I'm trying to learn the language on the fly. (Although I did know how to read beforehand.) One thing that I keep hearing a lot is what sounds to me (native English speaker) like 없어요 to mean "don't have." When I try to look the word up online, the only thing I can find is 없어. It occurred to me ( Read more... )

Soooo, I know that these vague "Do you know what this says, I don't even know which language it is..." are not super informative but maybe someone can help me out here?

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Hello! I was hoping someone could teach me how to say the words for mom and dad in any or all of the following ( Read more... )

Hello, all! First time posting and lover of languages (English speaker, studying Spanish and Japanese.) I am native Khmer, but don't know the language apart from a few phrases such as how to order in a restaurant, direct a taxi, greetings, etc. I have a question akin to the one a few posts below on Thai workbooks, in that I'd really like to study ( Read more... )

A more complicated version of this post about Chinese and keyboards ( Read more... )

Note for maintainers, before I forget: could we have a Sinhala tag, please? Thanks.

I've put a brief explanation of my reason for taking up Sinhala, under the LJ cut, so you can just skip to the actual questions if you like. However, reading it will probably give you a better idea of what level of learning I'm looking for right now.

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