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{ Daily Archives } Tuesday, September 2004

Near East Collection at Yale U: Samples of Arabic and Persian Calligraphy

Yale University has samples of Arabic and Persian Calligraphy in their Near East Collection. Pictures of some of those samples are also available online for the curious who want to see what Arabic Calligraphy looks like. I’ve always found Arabic Calligraphy very beautiful even though I can’t understand anything in Arabic at all. If you’re […]

Searching for a Electronic EnglishVietnamese Dictionary

Been looking around for a good EnglishVietnamese electronic dictionary. One feature I really want is pronunciation. I have found that the pronunciation is one of the trickier things to pick up correctly on one’s own so a dictionary that can speak a new word would be quite valuable. The current contender I am looking at […]