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tpaschalis
Well, even though I have no clue about Chinese, this seems like an impressive amount of work. How long did it take for you to build the whole thing?
peterburkimsher
Are you interested in other languages? Maybe I can put another dictionary in, and make a version to help you learn something else.

The keyboard came first; that took about a month, last December. January: I made an AppleScript to split the characters and add colours for the tones, from the Unihan character dictionary. February: word splitting. March: porting to Javascript. April: adding Taiwanese, simplified characters, bopomofo, etc. May: movie subtitles.

Future: restaurant menus, teaching English from Chinese, song lyrics, other languages.

starwaver
Some of the translation is not 100% correct but not bad! It does look like it took a lot of work, you got my full respect for that
peterburkimsher
The translations are from Google Translate, but edited by hand. If there's an error, please tell me and I'll fix it! There's also a dictionary editor built in; click the Edit button and see the popup. You can upload your changes to the server, too.
cjy
Very cool. I am currently learning Chinese and have found it hard to find movie/tv shows that include the pinyin subtitles. This is so much better with the color coding, formatting and dual translations. Thanks for putting in all the work and sharing.
peterburkimsher
Thank you for the encouragement! Where are you studying? Are you learning traditional or simplified? Is there anything else I can add to my code to help you?