OCRAT.COM SITE MIRROR
Sometime during the first half of 2005 Ocrat.com, a helpful site for learning
the Chinese language, went down and was replaced with the message "OCRAT.COM
is under construction. This site does not exist at this time".
The site provided stroke order diagrams for Chinese characters, Voice of
America radio broadcasts in Chinese and English, pronunciation help, and many
other helpful resources. Because I thought that the site was so useful and
it is a shame to see such a good site go offline, I want to bring back the
content of the Ocrat site.
In late 2005 I downloaded the content from Archive.org and started re-hosting the
resources that were available. I also restored some content that wasn't
archived. See below for a timeline.
News / Updates
- 04/14/2018 - Converted the site from CGI to static HTML + frontend JavaScript and moved to a new hosting provider. Some parts of the site have been taken offline (e.g. the image generator) because they weren't getting much traffic and not worth rewriting in JS. There are a lot better resources online now compared to back then, so I don't think they'll be missed.
- 11/06/2006 - Unless I overlooked something, this will be the last major update to the Ocrat mirror site. Stay tuned for new projects!
- 11/06/2006 - Added Chinese text to image conversion, which takes any Chinese text and converts it to a PNG image (with your choice of font, color, and size).
- 11/03/2006 - Added Chinese Character Pronunciations, which will annotate Chinese text with pinyin and sound clips.
- 11/02/2006 - Vocab sections overhauled, added
Pronouns,
Chinese Zodiac,
Chinese Provinces,
Political Figures.
- 11/01/2006 - Added Voice of America archives for 2006
- 10/30/2006 - Added Pride & Prejudice
- 2/22/2006 - Spurred by Ralf's hint on restoring the animated characters, I have rebuilt the other missing characters on the site:
192 big characters, and 196 caligraphy examples. The animated characters section has now been restored to its original state before being taken offline.
- 2/13/2006 - A big thank you to Ralf Piskora for helping me with
restoring the missing animated characters! The 187 missing
animated characters are now viewable.
- 10/12/05 - Rebuilt surnames (with pronunciation)
- 10/12/05 - Rebuilt numbers vocab
- 10/12/05 - Rebuilt countries vocab
- 9/27/05 - Rebuilt cities vocab
- 8/12/05 - Rebuilt compass (cardinal directions) vocab
- 8/12/05 - Site launched
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