Developing: Chinese Study Site

[Matty]

I'm working on a website to help students learning.

I'm interested in knowing what features people would be interested in seeing or recommend.

I'm intending to add many tools materials.

One tool (not complete) that I've developed is a Pinyin # to Pinyin character converter: (ni3hao3 = > nǐhǎo)

http://www.hskguide.com/Pinyin/Converter

-- The above domain is not necessarily the domain name of the final site.

I'm interested in hearing any ideas that may inspire me.

The above is just an example of the simplest of my scripts.

[roddy]

The pinyin thing plenty of sites do already, plus there's the excellent Pinyinput, and another pinyin IME was released recently.

There is a need for a comprehensive and easy to use set of Chinese text processing tools for learners. There are various odds and ends scattered around, but stuff like . . .

Parse the vocab items out of a text to make a word list

Do the same, but remove the users known vocab to make a new word list

Do the same for characters

Output those in formats easily imported into flashcard programs

Estimate a difficulty level for a text according to word / character frequency, sentence length, whatever

Input known characters and get a list of vocab items that use those

Markup of text according to a users known vocab - ie footnoting of new vocab items

However, I've been on the verge of making all these for five years, so if I see you progressing towards profit and world domination I reserve the right to copy.

[GuoDongXing]

right now, i'd be happy with a pinyin based traditional character input. Just like the one microsoft offers for simplified, but with long form characters instead of short form.

short of that, I think roddy hit it.