What are the best Chinese dictionaries for Android and Apple mobile devices?

A quick search in the Android Marketplace or Apple App store reveals pages and pages of Chinese dictionaries, including free, ad supported versions, as well...

Review of YellowBridge Online Chinese Dictionary

YellowBridge (黃橋 HuángQiáo) is one of the best online Chinese dictionaries available today. When I studying on or near my computer, it is the first place...

Learning Korean without Speaking

Guest post by Antonio Graceffo Antonio Graceffo is an applied linguist, and martial arts and adventure author living in Asia (check out our interview with him...

Review of “Walk, Talk & Learn French”

I first came across Walk, Talk & Learn French not in iTunes where I usually get my podcast fix, but via Tivo! I had no idea that you can stream or download...

Learning English Using Hulu (and other online TV sites)

In addition to endless English listening input, Hulu.com is now a source of reading input, too. How could a TV site be used for reading input? The answer is...

Vietnamese Loan Words and the Uniqueness of the Language

Guest post by Antonio Graceffo Antonio Graceffo is a martial arts and adventure author living in Asia (check out our interview with him here). His books,...

A Cast of a Thousand Characters: Learning to Read Chinese

Guest post by Antonio Graceffo Antonio Graceffo is a martial arts and adventure author living in Asia (check out our interview with him here). His books,...

Interview with LingQ’s Steve Kaufmann

This interview was originally done for my site, book and podcast series Living, Learning & Teaching in Taipei.  This “information triumvirate”...

Learning Kanji Using Imaginative Memory

When I first began learning Japanese in college, I made the same mistake most learners of Japanese or Chinese do: I tried to learn characters the way they are...