Useful website for helping read Chinese

http://www.adsotrans.com/advanced.html

This website has a number of functions which can either translate entirely a chinese phrase, or just help you part way.  The first function 'adsotate', has a mouse-over which when you point it at one of your chinese words, gives you a translation and the pinyin pronounciation.  Others I think will be useful for converting simple passages into pinyin to read.  It's just too unrealistic for me to read Chinese right now - it takes too long. 

 

I think I'll use a combination of the 'pintone' option (which includes pinyin and chinese characters), so that I can read from the pinyin.  If I don't know the meaning of a word, then I'll use another free program I have (kingsoft powerword share 2002) to do a mouse-over translation of characters I don't recognise the meaning of.

 

Here's what Adsotrans website made of the following simple sentence (which is probably written wrongly anyway):

我叫萧启荣。我住在上海。我是英国人，在这里工作。

 

I call Xiao Qirong 。 I live in Shanghai 。 I am British person ， here work 。

 

wǒ jiào Xiāo Qǐróng 。wǒ zhùzài shànghǎi 。wǒ shì yīngguórén ， zàizhèlǐ gōngzuò

 

我叫萧启荣。我住在上海。我是英国人，在这里工作。

 

 

我wo叫jiao萧Xiao启 Qi荣rong。我wo住zhu在zai上shang海hai。我wo是shi英ying国guo人ren，在zai这zhe里li工gong作zuo。