nciku.com (n词酷.com) has a new tool that lets you highlight Chinese or English text on any web page and either define the text or have the text read to you.

It’s a neat tool. This is a movie of how it works:

(After re-watching the movie, my tones are kind of bad on n词酷. It should be cíkù. Also I say the c sounds more like “s” instead of “ts” a few times -sorry about that.)

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  1. nciku on Youtube on March 2, 2008 6:19 pm

    [...] nciku has finally made it to the big (small) screen of YouTube. Rob Rohan over at the Random Technology blog has posted a nice 5 minute video explaining how he uses nciku, specifically the quick nciku feature. The video is below and here is the link to the original post: Online Chinese Reader - nciku.com [...]

  2. Dan on March 2, 2008 6:24 pm

    Who would have thought that when I got up this morning the first thing I would see was an nciku YouTube video in my RSS reader.

    Thanks for all the nice comments. I hope our quick nciku can help you make sense of all that chatter on the Chinese web.

    I posted your video on our blog. Good luck with your studies!

  3. Dan on May 9, 2008 12:27 am

    Rob,

    If you have a minute, head on over to nciku and take the chance to win some prizes.

    Hope the Chinese is coming along well.

  4. Rose on May 30, 2008 1:36 am

    I have been trying to use nciku.com at home for school but i the encoders for chinese in my web browser aren’t working so i cannot see the characters. I have used nciku.com at school and its great but it doesnt work on my home computer i have firefox and internet explorer…

  5. 小罗 on May 30, 2008 7:14 am

    Hi Rose,

    The problem is probably due to the fact that without extra setup Windows XP can’t display Asian characters (unlike Mac and Linux which can out of the box). To set up window xp to show Chinese characters, have you windows XP disk in hand and follow these instructions: http://youtube.com/watch?v=iAbvQqhICA4

    Just have to get to the part where you tick the “install east asian languages” part (unless you want to be able to type chinese too).

    I hope that helps.

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