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As we mentioned earlier, Anki is a

great tool to create Chinese Flash Cards

Here’s another example using Anki.

The deck of these Chinese flash cards was generated with the Anki Pinyin Toolkit and a word list from another open source Java program: Flashcard for Chinese Characters.

The pinyin, English definitions and sounds were all automatically generated from Pinyin Toolkit. Send me a list of Chinese words, and we can created a new deck for you to download.

Files You Can Download:
1)Anki Chinese Flash cards: Grade1 (323) ( You need to download and install Anki first if you haven’t)
2)Anki - the Best Flashcard tool (2146)

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How to say “Merry Christmas” in Mandarin & Cantonese?
聖誕快樂 （圣诞快乐)
Mandarin:sheng4 dan4 kuai4 le4 (all 4th tones)
Cantonese: sing3 daan3 faai3 lok6 (all 3rd tone but the last one 6th tone) Read the rest of this entry »

Pinyin or Hanyu Pinyin is the official Chinese romanized phonetic/pronunciation system. It’s been around for over 50 years and has been helping Chinese learners a lot. More Info Here

How do you type the Pinyin tone marks with your keyboard? It’s pretty tough without some tools.
You can do it easily with This One
(Try to type in this han4yu3 pin1yin1 and you will get hànǚ pīnyīn )