| Language Instruction & Learning |
| Asian
Language Study Programs: Chinese |
Compiled by UCLA Center for East Asian Studies |
| BBC
Languages - Real Chinese |
"A lively introduction to Mandarin Chinese
in 10 short parts," with useful phrases, cultural notes, & challenge |
| Chinese
Learning |
From Xinhuanet: Chinese slang; basic Chinese
(dialogues in Flash video format); learning Chinese calligraphy (AVI) |
| Chinese
News Reader |
"a free online learning tool designed to
help students of Chinese practice reading current Chinese language
news reports without the need for a print dictionary" |
| Chinese
Text Sampler |
"An Annotated Collection of Digitized Chinese
Texts for Students of Chinese Language and Culture" |
| ChiNews-On-Web
Course |
"a self-study and self-evaluation program
to assist students in their development of intermediate and advanced
Chinese language listening and reading comprehension skills[, offering]
a menu of 90 audio and 50 video Chinese news segments" -- developed
by Qin Zhang (Univ. of Hawaii) |
| Class
Notes for Chinese I, New York University |
Set of notes on vocabulary and grammar for the
first 11 lessons of Integrated Chinese (Cheng & Tsui),
written & made available publicly by Moss Roberts of NYU |
| Learn Chinese
with Clavis Sinica |
Commercial software "Combining a versatile
Chinese text reader with a comprehensive & richly cross-referenced
Chinese dictionary" |
 Learning
Chinese Online |
An extensive collection of resources on learning
pronunciation, conversations, characters, & grammar; reading
materials; online dictionaries, etc., compiled by Tianwei Xie, CSU
Long Beach |
| On-line
Chinese Tools |
Erik Peterson's "tools to assist people
in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language," including
flash cards, romanization converter, learning to draw Chinese characters,
dictionaries, Chinese encoding converter, Western-Chinese calendar
converter, East Asian currency converter, Chinese measurements, get
a Chinese name, Chinese family relationships, etc. |
| Online
Reviews: Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) |
"online access to reviews of computer-assisted
language learning (CALL) software published in the Journal of
the Chinese Language Teachers Association (JCLTA)" |
| Sites
Useful for Learning & Teaching Chinese |
Language & cultural sites for students & teachers
of Chinese, compiled by the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online
Teaching (MERLOT) |
| Speak Mandarin
Campaign |
Singapore government's campaign to promote the
use of Mandarin among Chinese Singaporeans: sample conversation lessons;
vocabulary lists; multimedia features |
| Study Mandarin
Using VOA |
Learn by listening to Voice of America newscast
sound clips "while viewing the corresponding Chinese characters,
pinyin pronunciations, & vocabulary lists with word definitions" |
| Super
Chinese Web Sites |
Jim Becker's listing "of sites that can
be helpful for you for learning more about China and the Chinese
language and culture": Chinese Grammar & Lessons; Chinese
Language Games ; Chinese Dictionaries; many other cultural categories |
| USC:
Chinese Language Program |
Information on the program; readings
in Chinese including humor stories, historical origins of idioms & myths;
business Chinese vocabulary & phrases; links |
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