Putting WordPress into Chinese, Japanese or Korean

编辑文章

A quick guide on how to put the interface for Wordpress into Chinese, Japanese or Korean. You can do this to add to your daily exposure. → Read more

How to tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean

How to tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean

So a lot of people seem to be searching for “Chinese Japanese Korean difference”. Here’s a nice little guide to help them solve their problems. → Read more

So Korean has way more Chinese influence than I had realised

한자 - 漢字

Before I started learning a bit of Korean I was aware that there was a lot of influence from Chinese due to 漢字, but I didn’t realise the extent of this influence. It seems to be massive. → Read more

Attacking Korean with Anki

Korean -> English template

I’m getting started with basic Korean by using separate grammar / vocabulary and writing decks, to try and be as efficient as possible. Also mixing in some listening. → Read more

What is a topic prominent language?

Topic first, then comment

An explanation of topic prominent languages, including their topic comment structure and other features, and comparison to subject prominent languages. → Read more

East Asian languages on 43Things

A bar graph

A quick look at how popular Chinese, Japanese and Korean are as learning goals on 43Things. → Read more

Hangul and jamo practice in Anki

Jamo practice in Anki

One thing that sets Korean apart from other East Asia languages is it’s unique use of an entirely alphabetic writing system. For students who’ve previously studied Chinese or Japanese, this will seem like the best thing since sliced bread. Better still, the system is intelligently and systematically designed with very few irregularities. You can learn the rules and apply them consistently, unlike in English, where pronunciation often has to be learned by rote. → Read more

Input Chinese, Japanese and Korean in Ubuntu

SCIM Smart Pinyin

A guide to setting up CJK input for complex characters on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other operating systems. Use this to type in Chinese, Japanese or Korean. → Read more