I’ve read a bit of stuff on here how everyone uses NCIKU.com, but I found and have been using nciku.com.tw and it’s different (I like it a little better, even though i understand it a bit less haha).
The SPACE part of it (nciku.com.tw/space) is sorta like a Very casual language exchange/dictionary social network (like a language exchange facebook); people on there post blogs and the like, talk to each other, post up jokes and their translations, etc and I’ve found that it actually helps force me to learn more Chinese because it gives me something fun to read as a break from NTNU’sㄅㄆㄇㄈ books, and I can (in very poor mandarin) reply to other people, get corrected, laugh at their jokes, etc. I’m actually pretty happy about it, and its not a feature I could find on nciku.com (maybe it’s me 
). I just came to Taiwan a week ago and it’s nice to have some connection to local people, even if it’s just online- Ive gotten some recommendations of what to see, too, which has helped a lot.
It’s all in traditional mandarin, and I saw some people were complaining about how nciku.com had simplified Chinese. It also remembers your searches and can quiz you on them, which is pretty cool too. AND it has the same draw-it-yourself character recognition (that works regardless of stroke order! :D) that nciku.com does. Anyone know of any other social sites like it? What do you guys think about it? It and the people on there have helped me A lot, wondering if anyone else has used it
