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Simplified or Traditional

All the lists in the main "mandarin" topic are simplified characters - there is a separate topic that you can find by going to "topics" -> Chinese -> Traditional Mandarin that has the traditional characters.

I hope that helps, please let me know if you have any other questions or suggestions,

Best wishes

Ben

I have found an application that will convert the simplified characters to traditional. Works very well! Called New Tong Wen Tang. Now everyone can use the simplified courses to study traditional characters.

This application places a button next to the wrench settings button on your browser and with one click you can go between simplified and traditional and back. Learning both is now an option!

@vick

Thanks for the heads up - new tong wen tang is ridiculously awesome!!! Just added it to Chrome.

thanks for information everyone. Very appreciated.

For those of you who use an Android based cell phone, I would highly recommend the "Hanping Chinese Pro" dictionary application ( also pinyin is displayed with tone marks and an audio clip is available as well ). You can easily change the settings through the menu button so that simplified characters with traditional characters are displayed or traditional characters with the simplified characters between s. The characters in parentheses will match the color of the characters that you need to replace ( many simplified characters are the same as the traditional characters). Even when you are in mainland China there will be traditional characters used on product packaging. Also, sometimes people will insert/write a traditional character.

For the Ipad or the iphone, people are probably familiar with the "Pleco" dictionary application and the "KTdict+ C-E" dictionary application. Sometimes I like the KTdict application better, but the Pleco dictionary uses color coding and s to show the simplified and traditional characters which is a better interface. The KTdict application displays the word with traditional characters below the simplified characters. You need to know that the traditional characters are below, it is not obvious to new users.