Posts Tagged: language


Xinci Chinese UrbanDictionary

4,000 Years of Chinese Culture Culminates in this Online Slang Dictionary

So now we’ve figured out that the internet won’t bring universal freedoms to China and got all t...

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  • January 15, 2013
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Open Sesame: Baidu Helps Lenovo Use Voice Recognition to Unlock Android Phones

There are already a few ways to get into your Android device in a secure way: face recognition, a pa...

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  • November 30, 2012
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Why You Should Consider Building Apps for China’s Ethnic Minorities

As the Chinese internet and mobile markets grow, a lot of people are looking to localize their produ...

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  • November 17, 2012
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FluentFlix Wants to Take You to the Movies So You Can Learn Chinese

Online education is a fast-growing sector, and given China’s swift economic growth, a lot of p...

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  • September 3, 2012
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Apple’s App Store Forgets How to Speak Chinese, Shows You Weird Search Results

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iTunes App Store seems to have forgotten how to speak Chinese. Well, it ...

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  • August 17, 2012
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Language-learning Service Rosetta Stone Poised for Asia Push

Rosetta Stone has just announced that it will be making a stronger push in the Asia region, and is r...

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  • June 20, 2012
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China’s Ministry of Education: Official Documents Shouldn’t Be Filled With Internet Slang

In recent years, the Chinese internet has seen an explosion of what are called “fonts” (...

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  • May 30, 2012
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CEO Announces Sogou Developing Siri-like Mobile Internet Product

Sogou (which is owned by Sohu) has long been a competitor to Baidu in the search field, but it not a...

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  • March 1, 2012
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Waigo App is a Pair of Eyes That Helps You Get a Bellyful of Chinese Food

I must admit that I really love apps that do something enormously useful, thereby taking the strain ...

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  • December 17, 2012
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Talk to Chinese Gamers and Curse at Gold Farmers in WoW with this Handy Phrasebook

World of Warcraft players worldwide often complain about Chinese gold farmers, but how many have act...

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  • November 27, 2012
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Tokyo-based Language Cloud Brings Learning Management Online

Readers may recall education startup Teamie, who won our Startup Arena event in Singapore this past ...

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  • November 7, 2012
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From Apps to Digital Textbook Publishing, OpenLanguage Licks Language Learning

Jenny Zhu’s voice is very familiar to me – and to a number of expats in China – fr...

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  • August 28, 2012
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Language Learning Marketplace italki Gets Seed Funding

With the idea that we learn faster from fellow humans than from textbooks, Shanghai-based italki is ...

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  • August 3, 2012
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Here’s Apple’s Siri Speaking Chinese [Screenshots & Video]

Apple’s voice assistant Siri now speaks Chinese, which is quite a feat. It’s one of many...

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  • June 13, 2012
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Bing Translator App for WP7 Can Now Speak, Read, Scan Chinese

Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone platform has just given itself an interesting linguist...

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  • April 18, 2012
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Baidu Establishes Joint Research Lab with A*STAR, Sets Eyes on Southeast Asia

This afternoon at Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) headquarters, the company signed an agreement with I2R (a part...

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  • February 23, 2012
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