- Comprehensive Integrated Lessons
- the Focused Skills of
- Speaking
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- Listening with Speaking
- Listening with Reading
- Reading
- Writing
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Comprehensive Chinese language lessons and courses from Official Government Sponsored Organizations
Confucius Institute Online, a very comprehensive language learning website for Chinese (part of "Hanban", China's governing Office of Chinese Language Council International over members comprising 12 state ministries and commissions) [ http://adult.chinese.cn/en/ ]
- Learning Chinese menu-page with courses & other materials [ http://learning.chinese.cn/en/ ]
- Elementary, 8 courses [ http://learning.chinese.cn/en/node_14424.htm ]
- Intermediate, 12 courses [ http://learning.chinese.cn/en/node_14424.htm ]
- Advanced, 10 courses [ http://learning.chinese.cn/en/node_14422.htm ]
- Chinese Online Learning menu-page with multiple courses and activities:
6 Elementary Courses, 5 Intermediate Courses, 3 Advanced Courses
[ http://english.chinese.cn/onlinelearning/node_23188.htm ]
hanyu.com.cn: Learn Chinese from Hanban (China's governing Office of Chinese Language Council International over members comprising 12 state ministries and commissions) and the East China Normal University; with E-class, Webcast, Listening, Monthly Magazine reading
- Learning Chinese menu-page with courses & other materials [ http://learning.chinese.cn/en/ ]
- Elementary, 8 courses [ http://learning.chinese.cn/en/node_14424.htm ]
- Intermediate, 12 courses [ http://learning.chinese.cn/en/node_14424.htm ]
- Advanced, 10 courses [ http://learning.chinese.cn/en/node_14422.htm ]
- Chinese Online Learning menu-page with multiple courses and activities:
6 Elementary Courses, 5 Intermediate Courses, 3 Advanced Courses
[ http://english.chinese.cn/onlinelearning/node_23188.htm ]
hanyu.com.cn: Learn Chinese from Hanban (China's governing Office of Chinese Language Council International over members comprising 12 state ministries and commissions) and the East China Normal University; with E-class, Webcast, Listening, Monthly Magazine reading
- "Contemporary Chinese" online textbook, 4 books, over 40 lessons, with tests
[ http://www.hanyu.com.cn/ddzw/index.aspx ]
[ http://www.hanyu.com.cn/ddzw/index.aspx ]
- Chengo Chinese E-language Learning System (ELLS)
[ http://www.hanyu.com.cn/oldedition/chengochinese1-8/ie_version/index.htm ]
[ http://www.hanyu.com.cn/oldedition/chengochinese1-8/ie_version/index.htm ]
[ http://www.hanyuwang.com/en/tvstation.aspx ]
china.org.cn
extensive Chinese lessons, including dialogues, reading, writing & strokes, idioms, allegories
- Learning Chinese menu-page [ http://www.china.org.cn/learning_chinese/index.htm ]
- Chinese E-learning menu-page [ http://www.china.org.cn/e-learning/34/ ]
china.org.cn
extensive Chinese lessons, including dialogues, reading, writing & strokes, idioms, allegories
- Learning Chinese menu-page [ http://www.china.org.cn/learning_chinese/index.htm ]
- Chinese E-learning menu-page [ http://www.china.org.cn/e-learning/34/ ]
edu.OCAC.gov.tw: The Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission on Taiwan's Global Chinese Language & Culture Center website and its HuayuWorld.org website ("ChineseWorld")
Speak Mandarin in Five Hundred Words
- interactive online version, 30 lessons
[ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/interact/ebook/digitalPublish2/cn500/index.htm ]
- e-book PDF edition, audio version available, 30 lessons
[ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/interact/ebook/digitalPublish/MContent.asp?Lang=E ]
Speak Mandarin in One Thousand Words
- online edition, with audio, 100 lessons!
[ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/medium/ch_1000/ch001h.htm ]
[ http://media.huayuworld.org/lang/medium/ch_1000/ch001h.htm ]
- online Flash edition, with video, 100 lessons!
[ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/interact/ebook/1000_w2/index.html ]
[ http://media.huayuworld.org/interact/ebook/1000_w2/index.html ]
- e-book PDF edition, 100 lessons!
[ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/interact/ebook/1000_words/into.htm ]
[ http://media.huayuworld.org/interact/ebook/1000_words/into.htm ]
Intermediate Chinese, with audio, various interactive language and grammar exercises, 12 lessons
[ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/culture/biweekly/98intermediate/index.htm ]
[ http://media.huayuworld.org/culture/biweekly/98intermediate/index.htm ]
Chinese for Junior High School level, 6 books, over 80 lessons in total (no English, no phoneticization pinyin) [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/advance/ch_junior/_index.htm ]
Chinese for Senior High School level, 6 books, over 80 lessons in total (no English, no phoneticization pinyin) [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/advance/ch_high/index.htm ]
Chinese for AP high school level studies, textbook series as PDF e-books, 6 books X 14 lessons = 84 lessons [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/interact/ebook/digitalPublish/web.htm ]
Online Chinese Classroom, archived version,
3 levels X 2 books per level X over 20 lessons per book = over 120 lessons in total
[ http://web.archive.org/web/20031002183235/http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/whole4.html ]
Intermediate Level, Book 1 [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/chcs03/index.html ]
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Comprehensive Chinese language lessons and courses from Universities and Educational Institutions
MIT OpenCourseWare Chinese Language Courses, 6 courses for 6 levels of Chinese
[ http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/index.htm ]
Rutgers University Multimedia Chinese Teaching System, 80 units in 4 levels, with audio files, reading and language notes, NO activities? [ http://chinese.rutgers.edu/content_e.htm ]
Oxford University's CTCFL
Chinese Language Course, over 25 lessons, Intermediate/Advanced, with Text, Vocabulary, Grammar, Assignments, Listening exercises, Written exercises
[ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/MCD/index.htm ]
"Chinese Multimedia" course, 22 lessons in simplified characters at elementary-intermediate level. Each lesson consists of the following standard sections: Video and text Vocabulary Listening and speaking, Grammar exercises, Characters, Multiple choice
[ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/index.html ]
University of Iowa's Chinese Reading World, over 150 reading lessons each with audio and questions, for Beginning and Intermediate levels [ http://www.uiowa.edu/~chnsrdng/ ]
University of Virginia Chinese readings on their Chinese Language and Literature website, over 50 readings with audio for Beginners and Intermediate levels [ http://faculty.virginia.edu/cll/chinese_reading/ ]
Kenyon College Survival Chinese, by Professor Jianhua Bai.
20 units of Survival Chinese each centered on a video clip, designed for students of low intermediate level who want to improve their listening skills and to learn to function in various real-life situations in China. The materials make use of video clips, Chinese texts with pop up annotations, various types of listening comprehension exercises. [ http://www2.kenyon.edu/personal/bai/vcsc.htm ]
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NEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER textbook lessons, resources & supplementary materials
Lessons, resources & supplementary materials centered around the "NEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER" textbook series - the granddaddy of Chinese textbooks from mainland China. Published by the Beijing Language and Culture University Press - first in 1981 as "Practical Chinese Reader". It is compiled under the sponsorship of the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language / Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) and in consultation with the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Guidelines.
Lessons 1-48 Texts & Exercises & Audio @ Oxford University, with text, translations, audio, pronunciation, listening exercises, grammar assignments and more. [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/PCR/PCR%20index.htm ]
Study Guides for Lessons 1 - 15 [ http://chinesehideout.com/chin101/guides.php ],
Study Guides for Lessons 16 - 24 [ http://chinesehideout.com/chin102/guides.php ]
"Ting" Chinese English Dictionary, based on the vocabulary from "Practical Chinese Reader Series: Books I and II" [ http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/search.html ]
Vocabulary Lists @ ktmatu.com for Practical Chinese Reader , In lesson order, In pinyin order, In English order. The words of Book I are taken from the 1997 edition. The words of Book II words are taken from the 1998 edition. [ http://ktmatu.com/chinese/practical-chinese-reader/ ]
Vocabulary List @ umaine.edu for Practical Chinese Reader in pinyin order [ http://www.math.umaine.edu/~hiebeler/chinese/syhykb3.gb ]
tabular Character Finder, by radical, to accompany PCR books I, II and III, simplified & traditional [ http://www.andante.org/zh_links.html ]
downloadable adaptive Flashcard Program for vocabulary in PCR 1, 2 & 3, lesson by lesson [ http://www.andante.org/chinese.html ]
Vocabulary Activities using Flash for Lessons 1-30 [ http://www.csulb.edu/labs/langlabs/builder/grab/chinese/pcr.html ]
Audio & Video for lessons 1-30 [ http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/pcr/textrecording/recording.htm ], Audio for Lessons 1-16 [ http://www.uvm.edu/~chinese/PCRread.htm ]
Audio @ calstatela.edu by Dr Kylie Hsu for all 30 lessons of Practical Chinese Reader I, recordings of the main dialogues/narratives [ http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/khsu2/pce.html ]
Character practice sheets and Flashcards by Dr Kylie Hsu @ calstatela.edu for all 30 lessons of Practical Chinese Reader I [ http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/khsu2/characters.html ]
Character Writing Sheets for PCR Book I, one PDF document for all Lessons 1-30 [ http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/pcr/pcrdata.htm ]
lesson by lesson E-Resource Book collection of links to online learning materials of PCR users (Lessons 1-15, nothing yet for 16-22, Lessons 23-27, nothing yet for 28-30) [ http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/PCRopen/pcrebook.htm ]
Learning Aids Online for the PCR [ http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/pcr.html ]
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"INTEGRATED CHINESE" textbook lessons, resources, supplementary materials
Lessons and resources centered around the "INTEGRATED CHINESE" textbook series, created by Chinese teachers from various American universities - "probably the most popular textbook series for teaching Chinese at the (American) college level. First published in 1997, it is now in its third edition (2008)."
General Information on "Integrated Chinese" textbook series [ http://eastasia.hawaii.edu/yao/icusers/general.htm ]
Supplementary Web Resources @ hawaii.edu for the "Integrated Chinese" textbook series [ http://eastasia.hawaii.edu/yao/icusers/icweb.htm ]
- e.g. "Integrated Chinese" Level 1 Vocabulary Lists per lesson on PowerPoint [ http://eastasia.hawaii.edu/yao/icVocPP/default.htm ]
- e.g. "Integrated Chinese" Vocabulary Trainer for 23 IC lessons (need pop-up windows) [ http://eastasia.hawaii.edu/yao/icfc/index.html ]
- e.g. "Integrated Chinese" Level 1 Word Games such as matching, concentration & flashcards by Mary Jacob @ ucdavis.edu
- e.g. "Integrated Chinese" Level 2 (Intermediate), Character Learning Exercises, through stroke order, quizzes & exercises for each lesson #1 - #19 [ http://faculty.virginia.edu/cll/chinese/index.html ]
Dialogues & Exercises @ berkeley.edu - chapter by chapter dialogues from Integrated Chinese Level 1 read aloud in high quality audio, as well as listening exercises, multiple choice, fill in the blanks, and unscrambling of sentences. [ http://www.language.berkeley.edu/ic/gb/toc.html ]
Chinese Characters for "Integrated Chinese" textbook lessons @ usc.edu, stroke order animation, with English, Pinyin and audio, follows “Integrated Chinese” lessons
[ http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/character_page.html ]
[ http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/]
Supplementary Materials for "Integrated Chinese" @ sdsu.edu [ http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/old_site/classmaterial.html ] E-texts and extensive materials
Exercises for Lessons 1 - 10 @ colby.edu
[ http://www.colby.edu/personal/k/kabesio/exindex.html ]
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Have fun while learning Chinese, for the young and young-at-heart
Chinese @ BBC Languages:
- Real Chinese, 10 units with slideshows, video, quizzes and key phrases [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/ ]
- Chinese Games, games using Flash to learn Chinese Writing and Tones [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/games ]
Games @ University of Maine at Farmington, interactive online activities, with audio, for young learners of Chinese: [ http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/games/games.html ]: Learn Chinese characters and tones by matching in a game of Concentration || Numbers, counting and money || Colors || Clickable pictures with words and sentences for different parts of the picture: Bike, Human Body || What's the time? || Simone Says game || Interactive Family Tree || Interactive Poetry of Bei Dao || Interactive stories: Snow White, Xinxin and Xiaowen in Beijing, San Zi Jing classic
chinese4kids.net, comprehensive blog with material to help kids learn Chinese [ http://www.chinese4kids.net/ ]
Zon online video game @ enterzon.com by Confucius Institute - Michigan State University. A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) providing an immersive game environment of a virtual modern China wherein users can learn the Mandarin Chinese language. Users create an avatar and then find themselves in a representation of Beijing International Airport through which they must navigate out into a virtual China. Throughout each new scene, players are presented with various learning tasks and ongoing assessments that teach them about specific Chinese language concepts and cultural information about the context of the scene. They may interact with non-player characters and other world objects to learn more about Chinese language and culture, as well as communicate with other players to practice their language skills. Equipped with the language and culture knowledge, they are able to accomplish the tasks and participate in various social activities. [ http://enterzon.com/ ]
Fun with Chinese Learning from Taiwan's Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission @ edu.OCAC.gov.tw. Flash games for learning Chinese. A Flash Game Zone with multiple choice games, matching games and true/false games; and games for learning vocabulary, character stroke order, sentence patterns, listening and reading of dialogues, idioms. [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/chineselearn/ ]
Little Genius online Language Activities @ yes-chinese.com, Language Activities, with audio, such as: animal sounds || character sequence game || fill in the blanks to complete the story || repeat the reading (totally in Chinese, NO English, programmed completely for the Flash browser plugin) [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/game/language.jsp ]
Mandarin Games @ NewConceptMandarin.com
[ http://www.newconceptmandarin.com/learning-tools/mandarin-games.aspx ]:
[ http://www.newconceptmandarin.com/learning-tools/mandarin-games.aspx ]:
- Learn numbers, colors and names of countries by matching in the Concentration Game.
- Learn numbers in the Mark Six Game
Games @ BetterChinese.com. Kids online games for learning Chinese. Find your way home by rolling the dice and answering the questions. Match the vocabulary to the picture before the timer stops. [ http://games.betterchinese.com/ ]
Chinese Idiom Zoo from the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, lots of activities based on animal centered idioms, designed for children: reading for the story behind the idiom with audio option, video animation of the story, games (written completely for the Flash browser plugin, totally in Chinese, NO English) [ http://resources.edb.gov.hk/idiom2/ ]
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Video resources for learning Chinese
World Languages @ TeacherTube.com, search for learn Chinese videos [ http://teachertube.com/videos.php?cat=24 ]
watchtolearnchinese.com, hundreds of videos to help learn Chinese [ http://watchtolearnchinese.com/ ]
Videos on Youtube.com by MandarinChineseSchool.com, over 170 Chinese language learning videos on Youtube [ http://www.youtube.com/user/mandarinchineseschoo/videos ]
Learn Chinese @ CNTV.cn, China's Net TV official web-based broadcaster for state broadcaster CCTV [ http://english.cntv.cn/learnchinese/ ], includes:
- Beginners
- Easy Chinese, 13 video lessons for speaking simple conversational Chinese. "Everyday guide to short Chinese phrases." Video lesson instructed in English. [ http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/easychinese/index.shtml ] [ http://www.cctv.com/english/special/17days/21/index.shtml ]
- Growing Up with Chinese, 100 X 15 minute video lessons of scripted situational conversations with teenage actors, and transcripts with hanzi, English and pinyin, video lesson instructed in English [ http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/growingwithchinese/index.shtml ] [ http://cctv.cntv.cn/lm/learningchinese/program/index.shtml ]
- Intermediate
- Communicate in Chinese, 38 X 15 minute video lessons for speaking conversational Chinese in everyday situations, with dialogues, cultural background discussion, substitution drills, transcripts in Chinese and English, video lesson instructed in English [ http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/communicateinchinese/index.shtml ] [ http://www.cctv.com/program/travelinchinese/cic/index.shtml ]
- Travel in Chinese, 100 X 15 minute video lessons for speaking Chinese for travel in China, with the program visiting various tourist spots in China, with dialogues, cultural background discussion, substitution drills, transcripts in Chinese and English, video lesson instructed in English [ http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/travelinchinese/index.shtml ] [ http://www.cctv.com/program/travelinchinese/tic/index.shtml ]
- Sports in Chinese, over 40 X 15 minute video lessons that include basic conversational Chinese and Chinese related to the various sports, with dialogues, background discussion, language points, transcripts in Chinese and English, video lesson instructed in English [ http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/sportschinese/index.shtml ] [ http://www.cctv.com/program/travelinchinese/sp/index.shtml ]
- Advanced
Happy series
- Happy Chinese - Daily Life, over 100 X 15 minute episodes of a sitcom of a young female foreign student (Susan) in China living with a Chinese family, with English and Chinese subtitles, with two breaks per episode to review language points which are instructed in Chinese with a little English [ http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/happychinese/index.shtml ]
- Happy Chinese 2 - Tourist Chinese, over 140 X 15 minute episodes of language instruction while your Chinese language hosts travel to places all around China and learn more about China, with English and Chinese subtitles, lesson points instructed in Chinese with a little English [ http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/happychinese2/index.shtml ]
- Happy Journey Across China, around 300 X 10 minute episodes of a travelogue following your Chinese language hosts as they get into their "Happy China" car and drive all over China. You will learn more about China and all its different places and the hosts will explain a few language points that arise, mostly in Chinese with a little English, with English and Chinese subtitles and transcripts in Chinese with English translation [ http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/happychina/index.shtml ]
- Other
- Chinese Speaking Competitions, over 100 broadcasts, each mostly over one hour, with Chinese subtitles only [ http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/competition/index.shtml ]
After School Chinese @ CCTV.com, for children, [ http://www.cctv.com/english/TouchChina/School/51/index.html ]
Videos @ Confucius Institute Online [ http://adult.chinese.cn/en/node_1039.htm ], includes:
- China Panorama, 20 video lessons from this Chinese language learning series, video lesson instructed in English [ http://adult.chinese.cn/en/node_1050.htm ]
- Home with Kids, 8 X 18min videos, grammatical structure based lessons using a popular family sitcom from Chinese TV [ http://adult.chinese.cn/en/node_3153.htm ]
- Scenario Chinese (中国百姓身边的故事 ), series of short video dramas showing stories from the lives of ordinary people in China, with vocabulary review, no English instruction [ http://adult.chinese.cn/en/node_4560.htm ]
- Idiom videos, over 40 videos of the stories behind each of the idioms, with transcripts in Chinese, pinyin and English [ http://adult.chinese.cn/en/node_1065.htm ]
Living Chinese @ China Radio International, 16 video lessons covering a few topics from daily life [ http://english.cri.cn/7106/more/10434/more10434.htm ]
Video clips of "Chinese Society in the New Millennium", hundreds of unscripted video clips on a broad range of topics, with Chinese transcripts and English translations, a companion website to the textbook, The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries, [ http://duke.edu/web/chinesesoc/index.html ]
Beginner Spoken Chinese @ xcn-chinese.com, over 40 video lessons using native Chinese speakers, with vocabulary review and dialogue transcripts [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_course/life_in_china_Intermediate/index.asp ]
"Easy Chinese" old video series archived at Jinan University, hours and hours of short video lessons (less than 5 mins each) teaching learners to speak basic Chinese conversation, instructed iin English, with Chinese characters and pinyin (all put together in four large files for use with the Windows Media browser plugin, click on entries for "易捷汉语") [ http://202.116.28.12/hanbanziyuan/index.htm ]
chinesewithmike.com. Around 60 Youtube.com video lessons for learning to speak conversational Chinese, by Mike who teaches you from Chicago in a garage in which he also lives, and instructs wearing an endless supply of gaudy Hawaiian shirts. Downloadable lesson text with Chinese and pinyin, in PDF file format. [ http://www.chinesewithmike.com/ ] [ http://www.youtube.com/user/ShermerIL ]
Youtube.com video lessons from TouchChinese.com, over 30 video lessons for speaking simple Chinese conversation [ http://www.youtube.com/user/touchchinese/videos ]
Oral Projects @ classes.yale.edu, 15 short one-minute videos of conversation dialogs of "semi-genuine situations in Chinese daily life" for intermediate level, with Chinese transcripts [ http://classes.yale.edu/chns130/oral_projects/index.html ]
Fun Stuff @ echineselearning.com, 20 lessons on various interesting topics beginning with a video, then a disussion on some Chinese language points from the video, with sentence examples, lesson in English, Chinese and pinyin, plus audio for Chinese examples [ http://resources.echineselearning.com/funstuff/ ]
China Everyday @ yes-chinese.com, around 100 short videos in a broad yet thorough introduction to China and its culture, with Chinese and English subtitles, English audio option, in over 20 categories such as General Infomation About the Country, Family, Clothing, Food & Drink, Transportation, Communication, Education, Labour Market, Festivals, Leisure Activities, Sanitation & Health, Beliefs & Values, Folk Customs, Folk Taboos, Opera & Music, Painting & Calligraphy, Poetry & Literature, Arts & Crafts, Cities & Historic Sites [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/feature/everydaychina/ ]
Pinyin Pronunciation & Spelling @ guoshi.com website from China Education TV, learn some spelling and pronunciation using Chinese pinyin together with a class of Chinese 1st Grade kids in recorded videos of 15 minute classes: "a, o, e (Part 1)" || "a, o, e (Part 2)" || "i, u (Part 1)" || "i, u (Part 2)" || "y, w" || "ai, ei ui" || "ao, ou, iu (Part 1)" || "ao, ou, iu (Part 2)" || "ie, ue, er, ye, yue (Part 1)" || "ie, ue, er, ye, yue (Part 2)"|| "an, en, in, un"
Chinese Radio and TV Broadcast Links @ learnchineseez.com, directory of online broadcasts in Chinese [ http://www.learnchineseez.com/media/ ]
Chinese Web Radio and TV Station Links by Marjorie Chan @ Ohio State University, directory of Chinese online audio & video broadcast links [ http://chinalinks.osu.edu/c-links2.htm#audio ]
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Learn & memorize Chinese VOCABULARY with extensive word lists & categories, online interactive flashcards, and vocabulary quizzes & tests
Focus on VOCABULARY to improve all your Chinese language skills of listening, speaking, writing and reading. Learn, study and expand your Chinese vocabulary a hundred different ways:
# listen to audio and read & memorize vocabulary lists & categories, # online interactive picture flashcards, # printable flashcards, # online vocabulary quizzes / tests / games, # online spaced repetition memory learning systems, # customize personalize and make your own vocabulary collection / lists / flashcards / quizzes / tests / activities, # slang & colloquial buzzwords, # graded HSK vocabulary lists
nciku Vocab Lists [ http://www.nciku.com/vocab ]
- choose from thousands of vocab lists (with pinyin, English & audio) or easily, and even automatically, make your own
- make an automated MP3 audio recording of the vocab list
- export to your computer
- print flashcards
- use vocab lists in four kinds of interactive online Memorization Tests: fill in the correct word, choose the correct definition, translate, dictation
- thousands of vocab lists / online flashcards by theme, with pinyin, English, pictures & audio @ nciku Theme Words [ http://www.nciku.com/theme ], study the Theme Words through online Flashcards with hide/reveal fields [ http://hi.nciku.com/space.php?do=testflashcards ], or in a Theme Word Quiz [ http://hi.nciku.com/space.php?do=testflashcards ]
Chinese Vocabulary Categories @ learningchocolate.com by Amy Wilson. Over 60 categories each with pictures, audio and games for learning the vocabulary. Targeted at children.[ http://www.learningchocolate.com/?st_lang=zh-hans ]
Everyday Topics in "Ting" Chinese Study Center website @ University of Maine at Farmington
- Extensive collection of thousands of words and phrases, each with audio by multiple speakers, organized into over 20 topic categories. You can open an account to choose words you wish to learn: review lists, flash cards, quizzes. [ http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/topics/topics.html ]
Special word categories in "Ting" Chinese Study Center website @ University of Maine at Farmington, click to listen to audio:
- Chinese dynasties [ http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/topics/dynasty/douying.html ]
- Chinese provinces and provincial capitals, click on the map [ http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/maps/chinese_map.html ]
- U.S. states, click on the map [ http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/maps/usmap.html ]
VisualChinese.com, thousands of Chinese words in over a hundred categories in a bilingual picture dictionary, with user contributed social system [ http://visualchinese.com/themewords/wordbank.aspx ]
Vocabulary @ yes-chinese.com, with pictures, character stroke animations, audio, and English (uses the Flash browser plugin):
- Vocabulary flash cards. Try the menu items on the right hand side, or enter you own list of words to make interactive online flash cards. [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/card/index.jsp ]; includes:
- over 70 categories [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/card/card_theme.jsp ] [ http://kid.chinese.cn/card/index.html ]
- 19 categories [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/card/card_cnpic.jsp?lang=en ]
- Graded Vocabulary Flashcards, interactive online flashcards graded into 12 reading levels correlated to HSK levels, includes traditional character option, pinyin option, link to the Yes-Chinese dictionary entry [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/zh-cn/reading/list.do?type=6&level=GR-01 ]
- World Around Us, categories such as residential district, retail, industrial, transport etc., uses Flash software [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/zw/index.jsp ]
- Atlas of the World & China, interactive maps, for the names of each country in the world; China provinces and capital cities, important rivers, famous scenic spots [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/zw/map.jsp ]
Vocabulary flashcards @ Confucius Institute Online:
- vocabulary flashcards @ culture.chinese.cn, online flashcards for over 70 categories related to various aspects of Chinese culture, with pinyin, English, audio, writing stroke order animation [ http://culture.chinese.cn/learning/node_1399.htm ]
- vocabulary flashcards @ kid.chinese.cn, over 70 categories of online flash cards, with pinyin, English, audio, character stroke order animation [ http://kid.chinese.cn/card/index.html ]
Mandarin Vocabulary @ LanguageGuide.org:
- Archive, around 50 categories with pictures, Chinese and pinyin [ http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/archive.jsp ]
- Practice Audio Mandarin Vocabulary, over 10 categories, with pictures, Chinese and pinyin, mouseover for audio [ http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/vocabulary/ ]
Chinese Picture Dictionary @ Yale University, over 50 categories with 20 vocabulary items per category, with Chinese, English, pinyin, audio and pictures [ http://classes.yale.edu/chns130/Dictionary/index.html ]
Flash Cards online @ chinesehour.com, sets of online Chinese flash cards in over 30 categories, with images, pinyin, English and Flash audio [ http://www.chinesehour.com/library/chinese-cards/ ]
Chinese Vocabulary Online Flashcards @ OCAC.gov.tw, numerous online flashcards (traditional characters) in 16 categories, with writing animations and audio [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/basic/ch_cards/03/INDEX2.HTM ]
semanda.com, picture flashcards in 19 categories, with Pinyin and English, quizzes, online and PDF printable [ http://www.semanda.com/ ]
Learn Chinese Vocabulary @ zapchinese.com, over 15 categories, with English, Pinyin and audio [ http://www.zapchinese.com/ ]
Chinese Vocabulary Online Games @ digitaldialects.com, learn vocabulary through online Flash games, around 10 categories of vocabulary [ http://www.digitaldialects.com/Chinese.htm ]
Learning Chinese Words @ chinese-fun.net, various posts on around 10 categories of Chinese vocabulary, with Pinyin and English [ http://china-fun.net/LearnCHS/Character/ ]
Study Tools @ chinesetimeschool.com
- Learn Chinese Flashcards, 16 categories of online flashcards, with English, Pinyin and audio [ http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/en-us/study-tools/learn-chinese-flashcard/ ]
- Slang, over 40 posts about Chinese slang, including internet slang and hot slang [ http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/en-us/articles/list/slang/ ]
- Chinese Family Titles, interactive look-up tables [ http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/en-us/study-tools/chinese-family-relationships/ ]
Flash Cards @ ShuFaWest.us interactive vocabulary flashcards in over 40 lessons, you can hide fields to test yourself, based on vocabulary from textbook lessons:
- "Interactions" I & II vocabulary drill flashcards [ http://shufawes.ipower.com/language/flashcard.html ]
- "Connections" I & II vocabulary drill flashcards [ http://shufawes.ipower.com/language/con_flash.html ]
SEE ALSO vocabulary resources for "New Practical Chinese Reader" and "Integrated Chinese" textbooks.
Atypical Chinese Vocabulary Lists @ sinosplice.com, atypical vocabulary lists such as Alcohol vocabulary, Onomatopeia, Cartoon character names [ http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese/chinese-vocabulary-lists ]
Popular Chinese Words @ echineselearning.com, over 250 colloquial words and phrases, with pinyin and English explanation, sentence examples and audio [ http://resources.echineselearning.com/dailybrief/ ]
Buzzword blog @ shanghaidaily.com, hundreds of the latest Chinese buzzwords (with pinyin) explained in English [ http://www.shanghaidaily.com/buzzword/ ]
Buzz Words in Chinese news @ Ecns.cn, with pinyin and English explanation [ http://www.ecns.cn/learning-Chinese/bw/index.shtml ]
Popular & Practical Colloquial Words @ i.myechinese.com, around 150 words & terms, in Chinese and English, with explanations and sentence examples (with Chinese audio) [ http://i.myechinese.com/apps/lib/index.php?s=/Topic/index/gid/31 ]
Slang & Character Stories @ theworldofchinese.com (also karaoke lyrics to a few popular songs available, with pinyin and English commentary):
- Slang [ http://www.theworldofchinese.com/category/language/chinese-slang/ ]
- Character Stories, articles in English about particular Chinese characters [ http://www.theworldofchinese.com/category/language/character-stories/ ]
Hot New Words & Terms of 2007 @ edu.sina.com.cn, 425 newly emerging words and terms entering the Chinese language in 2007 (all in Chinese, NO English) [ http://edu.sina.com.cn/zt/focus/2007xcy/index.html ]
Interesting Words & Phrases in the Confucius Classroom of China Radio International as compiled by Jinan University, audio radio lessons for 32 idiomatic words and phrases (all in Chinese, NO English) [ http://202.116.28.12/kongzixuetang/index.htm ]
Word picture blog @ HuaZhongWen.com, one cute cartoon for each word, added in blog style [ http://huazhongwen.com/ ]
Vocabulary @ chinesehacks.com, blog posts on various interesting aspects of Chinese vocabulary [ http://chinesehacks.com/category/vocabulary/ ]
Vocabulary posts @ Chinese Language Net, over 40 articles on various points of Chinese vocabulary, mostly just in Chinese (NO pinyin) [ http://hanyu.zhyww.cn/List_958.html ]
wordbuddy.com, online vocabulary learning system, generate your own vocabulary database, learn with a community, online dictionary, explore characters and radicals, make flashcards, share tricks to memorize words, quiz system with spaced repetition [ http://www.wordbuddy.com/ ]
SEE ALSO:
- Lists of the Most Common Chinese Words
- downloadable Software packages for learning Chinese vocabulary with computer flashcards, memorization systems, spaced repetition, tests / quizzes / activities
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Rules of Chinese GRAMMAR to check for errors and mistakes, for the correct writing and speaking of Chinese - free online Chinese grammar lessons & exercises
Focus on GRAMMAR to improve all your Chinese language skills of listening, speaking, writing and reading. Study all the Chinese grammar rules to learn to correct your writing and speaking of the Chinese language and eliminate common errors and mistakes, with free online lessons and exercises on grammar topics such as: Chinese measure words, use of numerals & time words, Chinese parts of speech, Chinese particles, Chinese verb complements, possession, aspect in Chinese, word order, Chinese sentence structure, sentence patterns, sentence elements, question forms and interrogatives, negation, Chinese conjunctions and connectors, comparatives.
Online Chinese Grammar @ Oxford University's CTCFL, over 40 grammar units [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/BICC/index.htm ]
Elementary Grammar Revision @ Oxford University's CTCFL [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/ ]
An Introduction to Chinese Grammar @ chinesenotes.com, an exhaustive presentation as a reference on the fundamental elements of Chinese grammar, with sections on Parts of Speech, Phrases, Sentence Elements, Simple Sentences, Complex Sentences, Comparison [ http://chinesenotes.com/grammar.php ]
Chinese Grammar Wiki @ AllSetLearning.com [ http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/ ], includes:
- Parts of Speech [ http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Parts_of_speech ]
- Grammar Points by Level [ http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Grammar_points_by_level ]
- Chinese Textbook Grammar Index, index of grammar points by chapter, to 12 popular textbooks for learning Chinese [ http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Chinese_textbook_grammar_index ]
Mandarin Chinese Grammar for Pimsleur Students @ wikibooks.org, "a collection of information that might come in handy for Pimsleur students, like a systematic grammar overview...designed specially for users who study Mandarin Chinese with the Pimsleur audio program" [ http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese_Grammar_for_Pimsleur_Students ]
Grammar @ xcn-chinese.com:
- Grammar Lessons @ xcn-chinese.com, over 60 lessons to illustrate individual grammar points, with examples and dialogues, most are well produced video lessons with detailed review, and use native Chinese speakers [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_course/video_grammar/ ]
- Chinese Grammar @ xcn-chinese.com, around 200 grammar points explained as a reference [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_basic/Grammar/ ]
Grammar Errors @ mqzy.com, lessons on over 60 common grammar errors [ http://www.mqzy.com/learnchinese/free_chinese_online_lesson_2/index.htm ]
Basic Chinese Grammar @ rutgers.edu by Prof Richard VanNess Simmons, a review of basic Chinese grammar in "slide" presentation format for your web browser, 30 topics [ http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rsimmon/chingram/ ]
Grammar Videos @ adult.chinese.cn from China's Confucius Institute Online, 30 videos to explain individual grammar points [ http://adult.chinese.cn/node_650.htm ]
Grammar Guide from chinesepod.com (version @ archive.org):
- Parts of Speech
- Newbie grammar guide
- Elementary grammar guide
Chinese Grammar @ mandarinreview.com, over 20 various grammar points explained in blog posts [ http://www.mandarinreview.com/search/label/Chinese%20grammar ]
Chinese Grammar @ chinaassistor.com, over 15 grammar topics explained as a reference [ http://guide.chinaassistor.com/learningchinese/index_289.html ]
Mandarin Essential Grammar @ Yale Center for Language Study, intensive treatment of 9 different topics of Chinese grammar [ http://comet.cls.yale.edu/mandarin/content/grammar.htm ]
Grammar @ zapchinese.com, 9 grammar topics [ http://www.zapchinese.com/ ]
Grammar resources @ yoyochinese.com by Yang Yang:
- 10 Youtube.com video lessons on various points of Chinese grammar by Yang Yang, TV show host and reporter [ http://yoyochinese.com/video.html ]
- Question Words Cheat Sheet, in PDF file format
[ http://www.yoyochinese.com/content_question_words_summary_table.pdf ]
- Measure Words Summary Table, in PDF file format
[ http://www.yoyochinese.com/Chinese_measure_words.pdf ]
- Chinese Time Related Words and Phrases Summary Table, in PDF file format
[ http://www.yoyochinese.com/time_words.pdf ]
- Country, Nationality and Language Summary Table, in PDF file format
[ http://www.yoyochinese.com/country_nationality_language.pdf ]
- How to use “which, this, that, these, those, etc.", in PDF file format
[ http://www.yoyochinese.com/which.pdf ]
- Ten Common Chinese Grammar Mistakes [ http://yoyochinese.com/free_resources.html ]
Lessons for Learning Mandarin Chinese @ mandarin.about.com, a few simple grammar topics here, including parts of speech, "and", neither/nor, some / any / a few [ http://mandarin.about.com/od/lessons/Situational_Lessons_for_Learning_Mandarin_Chinese.htm ]
Grammar & usage @ Chinese Language Net, totally in Chinese (NO pinyin or English):
- Language usage, around 30 articles on points of usage of certain language in Chinese [ http://hanyu.zhyww.cn/List_960.html ]
- Grammar, around 10 articles on certain points of grammar in Chinese [ http://hanyu.zhyww.cn/List_982.html ]
Three Things to Know About Chinese Grammar @ myechinese.org. Three important chracteristics of Chinese grammar: 1) There are few changes of gender, number, case, tense, aspect, voice, etc.; and the few limited changes are not universal. 2) Importance of Word Order and Function Words such as 的, 把, 被. 3) Measure Words are numerous. [ http://www.myechinese.org/EN/Chinese/huashuo3.aspx ]
Basics of Chinese Grammar from LIOW Kah Joon on one page [ http://www.living-chinese-symbols.com/chinese-grammar.html ]
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_ focused skills - Speaking
Learn to SPEAK CONVERSATIONAL CHINESE with hundreds of free online lessons.
Free online lessons to learn Spoken Chinese Conversation.
Spoken Chinese @ xcn-chinese.com:
- Beginner Spoken Chinese @ xcn-chinese.com, over 40 video lessons using native Chinese speakers, with vocabulary review and dialogue transcripts; written in English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_course/life_in_china_Intermediate/index.asp ]
- Intermediate Spoken Chinese @ xcn-chinese.com, over 50 lessons, with vocabulary review, sentence examples, dialogues, many as video lessons using native Chinese speakers [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_course/life_in_china/index.asp ]
- Chinese for Daily Life, written dialogues in Chinese, pinyin and English translation, lessons for over 400 everyday situations! With English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics. [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/Daily_Life/Daily_words/index.asp ]
"Get Talking (Easy Peasy) Chinese for beginners" @ mandarinchineseschool.com, download PDF book, 130 pages, and audio files
"Spoken Chinese 900" textbook @ mandarinchineseschool.com, download PDF Book 1 & Book 2, 400 pages total, and audio files
Business Chinese 900:
- @ Ecns.cn, around 200 sentences with Pinyin phonetics and English [ http://www.ecns.cn/learning-Chinese/bc/index.shtml ]
- @ hujiang.com, around 600 sentences with Pinyin phonetics and English [ http://cn.hujiang.com/new/topic/703/ ], or as indexed by Google.com
- @ Chinese Language Net, all 900 sentences, with English but NO Pinyin phonetics [ http://hanyu.zhyww.cn/List_962.html ]
Dialogues @ china.org, over 80 lessons in everyday conversation with audio, English, Chinese text, Pinyin phonetics and vocabulary
[ http://www.china.org.cn/learning_chinese/dialogue/node_7046025.htm ]
Chinese Dialogues @ chinesehour.com, for beginner, elementary and intermediate levels; over 120 lessons in total in a variety of situations for speaking conversational Chinese; with audio, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics; English translations for featured vocabulary [ http://www.chinesehour.com/liveclass/topics/level/1/ ]
Speaking Chinese @ ChineseLearner.com: 36 speaking lessons, sentences in Chinese text with Pinyin phonetics and English, each sentence with Flash audio file [ http://www.chineselearner.com/speaking/ ]
Common Chinese Sentence Patterns @ huayuworld.org, 12 lessons, with audio, English, Chinese text, Pinyin phonetics, bopomofo Zhuyin phonetics, dialogues, grammar, drills, pronunciation, various interactive exercises, site uses Flash browser plugin [ http://media.huayuworld.org/culture/biweekly/99common/index.htm ], mirror at [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/culture/biweekly/99common/index.htm ]
Daily Sentence in Taiwan @ huayuworld.org, sentences for everyday life when you are in Taiwan, 3 levels in 6 categories (tourism, multicultural, campus life, customs, social, food & clothes), with audio, English, simplified & traditional Chinese text, Pinyin phonetics, site uses Flash browser plugin [ http://www.huayuworld.org/learning/daily_sentence/ ]
Chinese Dialogues @ chinesehour.com, for beginner, elementary and intermediate levels; over 120 lessons in total in a variety of situations for speaking conversational Chinese; with audio, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics; English translations for featured vocabulary [ http://www.chinesehour.com/liveclass/topics/level/1/ ]
Speaking Chinese @ ChineseLearner.com: 36 speaking lessons, sentences in Chinese text with Pinyin phonetics and English, each sentence with Flash audio file [ http://www.chineselearner.com/speaking/ ]
Common Chinese Sentence Patterns @ huayuworld.org, 12 lessons, with audio, English, Chinese text, Pinyin phonetics, bopomofo Zhuyin phonetics, dialogues, grammar, drills, pronunciation, various interactive exercises, site uses Flash browser plugin [ http://media.huayuworld.org/culture/biweekly/99common/index.htm ], mirror at [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/culture/biweekly/99common/index.htm ]
Daily Sentence in Taiwan @ huayuworld.org, sentences for everyday life when you are in Taiwan, 3 levels in 6 categories (tourism, multicultural, campus life, customs, social, food & clothes), with audio, English, simplified & traditional Chinese text, Pinyin phonetics, site uses Flash browser plugin [ http://www.huayuworld.org/learning/daily_sentence/ ]
Speak Chinese lessons @ hellomandarin.com, over 40 Beginner dialogues with English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://www.hellomandarin.com/ilovechinese/conversation/ ]
Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online by Prof. Tianwei XIE @ csulb.edu, 15 Units with mp3 audio files, English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm ]
Basic Spoken Mandarin @ Oxford University's CTCFL, 6 lessons, with dialogues, audio, vocabulary, exercises [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Spoken%20Chinese/SpeakingMandarin.htm ]
mandarinclickbyclick.com. In-depth lessons created by James Steed for speaking conversational Chinese, categorized under 12 topics of everyday conversation. Dialogues written in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin phonetics and English translation. Extensive treatment of vocabulary including stroke order animations and example sentences. Flashcards. Extensive activities for practice. [ http://mandarinclickbyclick.com/ ]
Daily Chinese @ mandarinreview.com, around 25 lessons for learning to speak conversational Chinese for daily life, with vocabulary and dialogues, written in English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://www.mandarinreview.com/search/label/Daily%20Chinese ]
Lessons to Learn Chinese Conversation @ justlearnchinese.com, around 18 lessons starting from beginners,with some grammatical approach, with audio, English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics, and an animated stroke order widget for learning to write [ http://justlearnchinese.com/lessons/ ]
Chinese Travel Phrasebook @ wikivoyage.org, substantial phrasebook that includes numbers, time, dates, colors, directions, eating etc., with English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Chinese_phrasebook ] [ http://wikitravel.org/en/Chinese_phrasebook ]
Chinese Phrases for Travelers @ chinese.travel-way.net, online phrasebook in over 100 categories; with audio, English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://chinese.travel-way.net/ ]
Learn to Speak Chinese @ travelchinaguide.com, 20 lessons in basic Chinese and travel Chinese; with audio, English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://community.travelchinaguide.com/learn-chinese/ ]
Basic Expressions in Chinese @ travelchinaguide.com, 5 pages with English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics, in PDF format [ http://www.travelchinaguide.com/essential/basic-expressions-in-chinese.pdf ]
Learn Chinese Through Street Signs @ mtsu.edu, finding accommodation, at the train station, emergencies, at the hospital etc., with English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://lingua.mtsu.edu/qing/signs/index.php ]
Conversations @ nciku.com. Dialogues with audio, English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics. Over 700 topics! [ http://www.nciku.com/conversation ]
Speech Dictionary @ chinesesavvy.com, conversational sentences classified alphabetically by topic, with audio, English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/dictionary/sentence/DictionarySentencePO.ot ]
How to Say It in Mandarin? @ sophilina.com, over 300 miscellaneous conversational phrases with Flash audio, English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://sophilina.com/index.php?p=hts ]
Practical Chinese @ ForeignerCN.com, over 100 assorted short topics of language for popular common everyday use that includes slang
Chinese Daily Dialogue @ chinesetimeschool.com, short sentences in 67 lessons, with audio, English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics; in categories such as Directions, Weather, Personal Introductions, Greeting, Visiting, Date, Time, Shopping, Asking for Help
Chinese Colloquial Phrases @ i.myechinese.com, over 100 phrases, with example sentences, English, Chinese text and Pinyin phonetics [ http://i.myechinese.com/apps/lib/index.php?s=/Topic/index/gid/30 ]
SEE ALSO:
- Language Learning VIDEOS
- Comprehensive Integrated Lessons
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Special help for PRONUNCIATION in speaking Chinese.
To speak Chinese, how do I PRONOUNCE the sounds? Am I saying it right? How do I use the PINYIN alphabet system to pronounce Chinese?
Chinese Phonetics @ myechinese.org:
- Pronunciation Lab, extremely thorough and scientific pronunciation website, with all Chinese language sounds categorized (with search function) by pinyin initials and finals, and over 25 characteristics from phonetic science, with diagrams for mouth and tongue movements and animation with audio and step-by-step explanation of each pronunciation, plus video of the mouth movements of a native speaker [ http://www.myechinese.org/chinesey/ ]
- Phonetics, with pages for all the Initials, Vowels, Rules, with diagrams for mouth and tongue movements, audio using QuickTime browser plugin, instructional video for Tones [ http://www.myechinese.org/EN/Chinese/huashuo2.aspx ]
Chinese Pronunciation Guide @ Harvard University, very thorough and systematic with pinyin and audio [ http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~pinyin/ ]
Chinese Pronunciation @ sinosplice.com. More than you will ever need to know about Chinese pronunciation, including "misconceptions" and facts "not widely understood". [ http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese/pronunciation-of-mandarin-chinese ]
- includes extensive Tone Pair Drills with audio [ http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese/tone-pair-drills/3 ], with an introduction here [ http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese/tone-pair-drills ]
Pinyin Pronunciation @ Oxford University's CTCFL:
- Pinyin Pronunciation Lesson: all the pinyin sounds for pronouncing and writing pinyin, tones, tone changes, explanations of mouth and tongue movements, audio [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Pinyin_Notes.htm ]
- Pinyin Pronunciation Practice, very extensive in 4 levels of practice stages, with audio [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Pinyin.htm ]
Chinese Pronunciation Practice @ ucsd.edu, thorough guide of Chinese pronunciation using pinyin, with Flash audio pages (please wait for Flash to fully load) for the initials, finals, compound finals and tones in combination, plus pinyin spelling rules [ http://chinesestudies.ucsd.edu/cpp/index.htm ]
Chinese Phonetics @ China Radio International:
- Chinese Pronunciation, comprehensive rules of pinyin & pronunciation [ http://english.cri.cn/chinese2007/chinese/english/lesson01/Phonetics.html ]
- Pinyin Table of all the initial and final combinations with Flash audio [ http://english.cri.cn/chinese2007/chinese/english/lesson01/pinyin.html ]
Table of Pinyin Pronunciation in "Ting" Chinese Study Center website @ University of Maine at Farmington, with all the pinyin initials, vowels and finals, and with audio [ http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/topics/pinyin/pinyin.html ]
The Four Tones, illustrated by drills of the four tones with "commonly confused sounds", with audio [ http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/topics/tones/tones.html ]
"Panda Pinyin" @ yes-chinese.com, online system using Flash software, click & listen to the audio [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/pinyin/ ]
Pronunciation Lab @ chinesetime.cn - practice with the video for each initial and final [ http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/en-us/study-tools/chinese-pronunciation/ ]
Pinyin Combination Charts @ chineselearner.com, four charts with all the combinations, with Flash audio, and pages on Pinyin Rules and Pinyin Tones [ http://www.chineselearner.com/pinyin/ ]
Chinese Phonetics @ china-on-site.com, all the initials and finals with pinyin & audio, and some explanatory notes for mouth and tongue movements [ http://www.china-on-site.com/language/phonetic/phonetic.htm ]
Chinese Pinyin Cheat Sheet @ yoyochinese.com, see a table of all the initials and finals with their "approximate English equivalent"
[ http://www.yoyochinese.com/files/attachments/Chinese_pinyin_cheat_sheet.jpg ]
Chinese Phonetics @ Putonghua Study Net:
- Distinguish Between Initials that Sound Close, plus Initials Reading Practice, lists of two-character word examples to practice the pronunciation of the finals (声母发音); lists of two-character word examples that help to distinguish between initials that sound close (声母辨音) (in Chinese and pinyin phonetics only, NO English)
- Distinguish Between Pairs of Finals that Sound Close, lists of two-character word examples, each character with finals that sound close to the other, to help the problem of distinguishing (辨正) between finals that sound close (in Chinese and pinyin phonetics only, NO English)
- Tables to Help Distinguish Between Close Pinyin Sounds, tables (辨音字表) of many examples of words with close pinyin pronunciations to help the problems of distinguishing between close pinyin sounds (in Chinese and pinyin phonetics only, NO English)
- Tonal Rules & Drills @ Putonghua Study Net (in Chinese and pinyin phonetics only, NO English)
- Complete List of Light Tone Words, with many examples, pinyin phonetics and words in Chinese characters, in alphabetical pinyin order. (Same list with audio @ putonghua520.com.)
- List of Two Syllable/Character Words with the Light Tone, in alphabetical pinyin order
- List of Two Syllable/Character Words with "Heavy followed by Light Tone", in alphabetical pinyin order
- Complete Categorized List of ErHua, with many examples, pinyin phonetics and words in Chinese characters, in alphabetical pinyin order of the sound modified final syllable character (in Chinese and pinyin phonetics only, NO English). (The first 15 listed groups with audio @ putonghua520.com.)
- List of Erhua, list of Chinese words with erhua, in alphabetical pinyin order of the initial character of the word (just Chinese characters, NO pinyin phonetics, NO English)
- Erhua Drill List (just Chinese characters, NO pinyin phonetics, NO English)
- Phonetic Transformations/Modulations @ Putonghua Study Net (in Chinese and pinyin phonetics only, NO English):
1) "一 yi, 不 bu", Light Tone
2) 儿 Erhua
3) 啊 a, ya, wa, na, nga, ra
- Phonetic Transformations/Modulations Drills, drill lists for the following transformations: "一 yi, 不 bu" || light tone || erhua (in Chinese and pinyin phonetics only, NO English)
Pronunciation & Pinyin @ xcn-chinese.com, 12 pronunciation lessons plus 6 video lessons [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_course/video_pinyin/index.asp ]
PinyinPractice.com, 6 pinyin lessons for beginners with audio
[ http://pinyinpractice.com/speakchinese/speakchinese.html ]
Pinyin Pronunciation & Spelling @ guoshi.com website from China Education TV, learn some spelling and pronunciation using Chinese pinyin together with a class of Chinese 1st Grade kids in recorded videos of 15 minute classes: "a, o, e (Part 1)" || "a, o, e (Part 2)" || "i, u (Part 1)" || "i, u (Part 2)" || "y, w" || "ai, ei ui" || "ao, ou, iu (Part 1)" || "ao, ou, iu (Part 2)" || "ie, ue, er, ye, yue (Part 1)" || "ie, ue, er, ye, yue (Part 2)"|| "an, en, in, un"
Basics of Chinese Pronunciation from LIOW Kah Joon:
- Chinese Pronunciation Intro [ http://www.living-chinese-symbols.com/chinese-pronunciation.html ]
- Chinese pronunciation Part 2 [ http://www.living-chinese-symbols.com/chinese-pronunciation-2.html ]
Mandarin Tone Drill interactive exercise @ ShuFaWest, with audio [ http://shufawes.ipower.com/language/tonedrill.html ]
Duo-Tone Drill interactive exercise, with audio [ http://shufawes.ipower.com/language/dual-tonedrill.html ]
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_ focused skills - Listening
Listen to Chinese to improve your ability to Comprehend Chinese, with free online AUDIO LESSONS
Improve your Chinese LISTENING ability - your ability to COMPREHEND Chinese - with hundreds and hundreds of free AUDIO LESSONS, online!
"Chinese Society in the New Millennium" companion website with hundreds of video clips, language exercises, hundreds of unscripted video clips on a broad range of topics, with Chinese transcripts and English translations - a companion website to the textbook The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries [ http://duke.edu/web/chinesesoc/index.html ]
Everyday Topics in "Ting" Chinese Study Center website @ University of Maine at Farmington
- Extensive collection of thousands of words and phrases, each with audio by multiple speakers, organized into over 20 topic categories. You can open an account to choose words you wish to learn: review lists, flash cards, quizzes. [ http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/topics/topics.html ]
Listening Comprehension @ Oxford University's CTCFL, over 50 short listening passages with audio and comprehension questions and answers, for Intermediate Level
Listening Comprehension Chinese Exercises by Mingliang HU @ Connecticut College, around 100 exercises with media files [ http://mhu.conncoll.edu/001Classes.html ]
Chinese Listening Comprehension @ Jinan University, hundreds of audio lessons with audio activities for learning listening comprehension (in MP3 file format, all in Chinese, NO English) [ http://202.116.28.12/resource/audio/index.htm ]
Digital Audio Bank for Chinese language learning @ Jinan University, complete collection of audio listening comprehension lessons consisting of over a thousand audio clips for five course books (for Windows Media browser plugin; totally in Chinese, NO English) [ http://202.116.28.12/audio/index.asp ]: News Listening Comprehension Course (新闻听力教程) || Chinese Listening & Speaking Course (汉语听说教程) || Chinese Listening Comprehension Course (汉语听力教程) || Chinese for International Business (国际商务汉语) || Business Chinese Listening & Speaking (经贸汉语听和说)
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Listen online to Chinese songs and radio to learn Chinese
Popular Songs @ hanyu.com.cn, 50 songs, with audio, Chinese lyrics, some vocabulary translated into English [ http://www.hanyu.com.cn/en/song.aspx ] [ http://www.hanyu.com.cn/oldedition/en/htm_song/song.asp ]
Song Paradise @ hanyu.com.cn. 10 pop songs, each song is presented in four parts including brief introduction, lyrics in Chinese and English version and new words and phrases, with audio file download [ http://www.hanyu.com.cn/en/radio1.aspx ]
Chinese Song List @ chinesetolearn.com, over 100 folk, classic and popular songs with Youtube.com videos; arranged by artist; lyrics in Chinese, pinyin and English [ http://www.chinesetolearn.com/chinese-song-list/ ]
Pop & Folk Music @ masterchinese.com, over 100 pop & folk songs with audio & Chinese lyrics (no Pinyin, no English) [ http://www.masterchinese.com/learning-resources/ ]
Chinese Songs @ chinese-tools.com, over 60 songs covering over 8 genres, with audio file, video, Chinese lyrics with pinyin, and each word can be translated into English using mouseover annotations [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/songs ]
Learn Chinese through Songs @ xcn-chinese.com, over 50 Chinese pop songs with audio, Chinese lyrics, pinyin, English translation and explanatory synopsis of the song [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_course/Songs/index.asp ]
Sing Sing Sing @ chinesehour.com, over 30 songs, with audio (plus line by line audio), Chinese lyrics, pinyin, English translation [ http://www.chinesehour.com/library/chinese-song/ ]
Pop Songs @ hujiang.com, around 20 popular songs, with videos, Chinese lyrics and pinyin [ http://cn.hujiang.com/new/topic/690/ ]
Chinese karaoke pop videos @ singklyrics.com, a website in English full of Chinese karaoke pop videos, lyrics in Chinese and pinyin (no English translation) [ http://singklyrics.com/ ]
chinese-mp3.com, a website in English with thousands of Chinese pop songs with audio, lyrics in Chinese and pinyin, and English machine translation available [ http://www.chinese-mp3.com/ ]
top10pinyinlyrics.blogspot.com, over 50 Youtube videos with Chinese lyrics and pinyin, over 1000 song lyrics in total with pinyin [ http://top10pinyinlyrics.blogspot.com/ ]
Search for "pinyin+lyrics" @ Youtube.com [ http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pinyin+lyrics ]
Classical Poems sung for children @ gushi160.com, over 250 video songs with lyrics from classical poems, with Chinese subtitles, explanation and analysis in Chinese, uses Flash player browser plugin (click on 歌曲视频) at [ http://gushi160.com/ ]
Online Chinese radio station directory @ omniglot.com [ http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese_links.htm#radio ]
Chinese Radio and TV Broadcast Links @ learnchineseez.com, directory of online broadcasts in Chinese [ http://www.learnchineseez.com/media/ ]
Chinese Web Radio and TV Station Links by Marjorie Chan @ Ohio State University, directory of Chinese online audio & video broadcast links [ http://chinalinks.osu.edu/c-links2.htm#audio ]
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_ focused skills - Listening with Speaking
Learn to speak Chinese while listening to audio lessons
audio Chinese Lessons @ melnyks.com, almost 200 audio lessons (about 20 mins per lesson?) [ http://www.melnyks.com/site-map/ ]
China Radio International (CRI) Learn Chinese programs, audio recordings of the Chinese lesson broadcasts using English with hanzi & pinyin transcripts:
- Chinese Studio, over 200 lessons [ http://english.cri.cn/7106/more/7115/more7115.htm ]
- Learn Chinese Now, over 150 lessons [ http://english.cri.cn/7106/more/7116/more7116.htm ]
iMandarinPod.com podcast audio lessons, over 35 audio lessons, with "vocabulary, grammar, exercises and transcripts... In each podcast, we will introduce a topic about Chinese culture or what is happening today in China. We are not teaching a pure language (yes, we do explain vocabulary words, phrases, sentences and grammar points in each podcast)... we are teaching Chinese by introducing Chinese culture under real circumstances..." Check their homepage for any latest additions.
Learn Chinese @ CNTV.cn, includes:
- Survival Chinese, 36 audio lessons (the same from iMandarinPod above) consisting of simple sentences for speaking conversational Chinese in "everyday situations", with English and pinyin, audio lesson instructed in English
- CRI Chinese Studio, around 200 written transcripts of five minute radio broadcasts from China Radio International (same above) for speaking simple conversational Chinese sentences and phrases for everyday situations, with hanzi, English and pinyin, audio lesson instructed in English
World Learner Chinese audio lessons, 26 free audio lessons at basic level [ http://www.worldlearnerchinese.com/content/public-categories ]
Audio Chinese @ Western Kentucky University by Professor Haiwang YUAN, numerous simple phrases under different categories, with English, Pinyin and audio [ http://people.wku.edu/haiwang.yuan/AudioChinese/index.html ]
Useful Survival Expressions @ newconceptmandarin.com, audio files for speaking basic survival Chinese categorized by 23 different unit topics [ http://www.newconceptmandarin.com/learning-tools/useful-survival-expression.aspx ]
SEE ALSO entry on Comprehensive Integrated Lessons
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_ focused skills - Listening with Reading
Practice Chinese Reading with Listening, at the same time!
Practice reading and listening, together!
Chinese readings @ University of Virginia on their Chinese Language and Literature website, over 50 readings with audio for Beginner and Intermediate levels [ http://faculty.virginia.edu/cll/chinese_reading/ ]
Chinese Voices Project @ clavisinica.com, an extensive collection of text mini-essays with mp3 audio for students of Chinese language and culture. All of the selections are written by savvy young Beijingers and are read in their own voices. Each piece offers a perspective on modern life in Beijing you won't find in a Chinese language textbook or the China Daily. Each with a graded rating and divided into Subject Areas. [ http://www.clavisinica.com/voices.html ] Complete catalog list in order of difficulty available here [ http://www.clavisinica.com/full-list.html ]
Read & listen @ Confucius Institute Online:
- "Walking Along with Chinese" cultural readings, around 100 readings on Chinese cultural items and places with audio and English translation, focus on key vocabulary, the reading iin the audio is made at a slower pace for easier understanding [ http://culture.chinese.cn/learning/node_251.htm ]
- Listen & Read Chinese, 15 passages to read and listen to audio of the passage [ http://adult.chinese.cn/en/node_1048.htm ] [ http://adult.chinese.cn/node_672.htm ]
- Classical Stories @ Confucius Institute Online, 12 stories to listen to and read, with Chinese text, English and audio [ http://adult.chinese.cn/en/node_1059.htm ]
Exclusive Interviews @ China Radio International, over 70 interviews with Chinese transcripts, audio for Windows Media Player [ http://english.cri.cn/7106/more/7121/more7121.htm ]
Essay Appreciation @ China Radio International, around 30 essays in Chinese (NO English), with audio (for the Windows Media browser plugin)
Slow-Chinese.com, Audio Podcasts of interesting freshly posted articles (over 50) with transcripts [ http://www.slow-chinese.com/ ]
Chinese Short Stories @ xcn-chinese.com, around 60 stories to listen to and read, in Chinese, pinyin and English translation, with audio (for RealPlayer browser plugin) [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/entertainment/Short_story/index.asp ]
Audio Articles @ xcn-chinese.com, over 60 Chinese articles with audio (for RealPlayer browser plugin) and pinyin, no English [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/Daily_Life/mandarin_training/ ]
Learn Chinese through Humor @ xcn-chinese.com:
- Learn through Humor, over 80 humorous anecdotes in Chinese, pinyin and English translation, most with audio (for RealPlayer browser plugin) [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_course/Humors/index.asp ]
- Chinese Humor, over 70 humorous anecdotes in Chinese, pinyin and English translation, most with audio (for RealPlayer browser plugin) [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/entertainment/Humors/index.asp ]
Chinese Idioms @ xcn-chinese.com, over 50 idioms and the stories behind them, in Chinese, pinyin and English translation, with audio [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_basic/Idioms/ ]
Read Essays with Audio @ putonghua520.com, study Chinese by reading practice of 60 essays with audio (for the Windows Media browser plugin) (totally in Chinese, NO English) [ http://www.putonghua520.com/putonghua/list44-1.html ]
Graded Readers @ yes-chinese.com, hundreds of interactive stories and articles (uses Flash browser plugin), graded into 12 reading levels correlated to HSK levels (sub-categories of Elementary, High School and Adult, plus a pre-school level), with audio, link to Yes-Chinese dictionary entries but NO English translation of reading [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/reading/ ]
Classic Reading @ yes-chinese.com, hundreds of Chinese classical pieces, with audio, link to Yes-Chinese dictionary entries but NO English translation of reading, uses Flash browser plugin [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/zh-cn/reading/list.do?type=5 ]
Chinese History - 5000 Years of Civilization @ yes-chinese.com, an interactive timeline of all the Chinese dynasties, with a brief description of each, with audio, traditional character option, English option (programmed completely for the Flash browser plugin) [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/culture/cn_history.jsp ]
Reading for Children's Chinese @ yes-chinese.com (Chinese only, No English, programmed completely for the Flash browser plugin):
- Reading for Children, online interactive picture storybooks for children, with audio, around 25 stories [ http://cn.yes-chinese.com/v2010/reading/index.jsp ]
- Bedtime Stories, 30 online stories, with audio, 5 stories for each of Chinese Mythology || Greek Mythology || Aesop's Fables || Arabian Nights || Grimm's Fairy Tales || Andersen's Fairy Tales [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/story/index.jsp ]
Chinese Idiom Zoo from the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, designed for children based on animal centered idioms: reading for the story behind the idiom with audio option, video animation of the story, games (written completely for the Flash browser plugin, totally in Chinese, NO English) [ http://resources.edb.gov.hk/idiom2/ ]
Ellen's Living Chinese, many audio podcasts among a year of blog entries in Chinese, pinyin and English [ http://ellenschinese.podomatic.com/ ]
My Love Lost Forever @ justlearnchinese.com, a touching essay of a mother's loss of her infant son popularized on the Web, with Chinese, pinyin and English; and audio; in 15 instalments
Audio Books @ tingbook.com, a website from China (completely in Chinese, NO English instructions) full of audio books, with Chinese text available (click on "文本" when you see it) [ http://www.tingbook.com/ ]
SEE ALSO:
- Poetry audio & video
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_ focused skills - Reading
Learn & improve through Chinese READING practice, from beginner, to intermediate, to advanced reading levels.
Practice and improve your Chinese READING; from beginner, to intermediate, to advanced levels. All free material, online.
Before using the reading materials below, first learn the basics about Chinese characters and the evolution and etymology of written Chinese characters. Then take some lower level step-by-step integrated lessons that can get you started with speaking, listening, reading and writing. Then when you want to focus on improving your reading, try the following:
"Read Chinese!" from the U.S. Government funded National Foreign Language Center. Two levels, lots of reading passages with activities, beginning with four basic lessons on Chinese characters, and ranging to passages on history and geography. [ http://readchinese.nflc.org/ ]
Chinese Reading World @ University of Iowa, over 150 reading lessons each with audio and questions, for Beginning and Intermediate levels [ http://www.uiowa.edu/~chnsrdng/ ]
Graded Readers @ yes-chinese.com, hundreds of interactive stories and articles (uses Flash browser plugin), graded into 12 reading levels correlated to HSK levels (sub-categories of Elementary, High School and Adult, plus a pre-school level), with audio, link to Yes-Chinese dictionary entries but NO English translation of reading [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/reading/ ]
Chinese readings @ University of Virginia on their Chinese Language and Literature website, over 50 readings with audio for Beginners and Intermediate levels [ http://faculty.virginia.edu/cll/chinese_reading/ ]
Stepping Stones @ ClavisSinica.com by Prof. David Porter of the University of Michigan. "The goal of the series is to provide a systematic introduction to the 300 most commonly used Chinese characters... Each lesson presents a short, simple reading--usually either a poem or a simplified version of a famous Chinese story..." 9 lessons, with audio, vocabulary review and exercises. [ http://www.clavisinica.com/SS/intro.html ]
Reading resources in the Chinese Language Program @ usc.edu. Extensive reading resources with graded readings and comprehension questions, including Humorous Stories, Origins of Idioms, Ancient Chinese Myths, Chinese Poems [ http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/reading_page.htm ]
A Chinese Text Sampler, a Collection of Texts for Students of Chinese @ University of Michigan by Prof. David Porter. A very extensive collection of graded passages (graded by numerical ratings next to each title, on a scale from one to seven, of the relative difficulty based on the usage frequency of the characters). Divided into 6 categories: Chinese Language in Daily Life, Modern Chinese Literature, Classical Chinese Literature, Chinese Film & Songs, Chinese Fables, Chinese History. [ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/sampler.html ]
Reading for Pre-school Literacy @ studychinese.tripod.com. 32 lessons of reading for Chinese pre-schoolers (NO English, totally in Chinese) [ http://studychinese.tripod.com/textbook.htm ]
Xuele @ Singapore Ministry of Education's edumall.sg, "Chinese Language Digital Resources", totally in Chinese (NO English), programmed completely in interactive Flash browser plugin software, with audio [ http://xuele.edumall.sg ] [ http://xuele.edumall.sg/xuele/slot/u107/index.html ]:
- Elementary School: reading passages with audio and pinyin, for the six grades of elementary school, around 100 reading lessons in total [ http://xuele.edumall.sg/xuele/slot/u107/index1.html ]
- Middle School: Reading Comprehension with audio and exercises, Review exercises & tests [ http://xuele.edumall.sg/xuele/slot/u107/Sec/index2.htm ]
Reading @ hellomandarin.com. 8 intermediate & advanced passages with comprehension questions [ http://www.hellomandarin.com/ilovechinese/reading/ ]
Reading Skills on the Chinese Language Skills for Britain website of Oxford University's CTCFL. 9 reading passages (10-17 unavailable) with Sentence pattern index, Vocabulary index and audio [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/FDTL/one.shtml ]
Selected Reading @ minmm.com, Beginner and Intermediate reading passages, over 15 in total, with mouseover annotations, links to 7 Advanced passages, extensive directory of individual audio books [ http://www.minmm.com/minc/read.php ]
Chinese Online Reading Assistant @ University of Illinois (archived version), about 15 Advanced reading passages, simplified or traditional, click for vocabulary annotations.
Listen & Read Chinese @ Confucius Institute Online, 14 passages to read and listen to audio of the passage [ http://adult.chinese.cn/node_672.htm ]
First Steps in Reading Chinese @ Wake Forest University by Assoc. Prof. Patrick Edwin Moran (retired) - reading materials and stories with hypertext vocabulary:
- 11 lessons in Unit One [ http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/First_Semester_TOC.html ]
- 11 lessons in Unit Two [ http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/Black_Dragon_TOC.html ]
- PDF files for vocabulary, characters and compounds
[ http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/xueshenglu/student_router.html ]
[ http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/xueshenglu/student_router.html ]
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Practice reading online Chinese novels, classical as well as modern & popular literature
Practice reading online Chinese literature, including Chinese novels, classical as well as modern & popular literature - for free!
Sites with Chinese E-Text, from the MCLC @ Ohio State University, directory of online Chinese literature texts, includes list by alphabetical author names [ http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/etext.htm ]
Archive of Chinese Teaching Materials @ Harvard University, East Asian Language Center, good collection of literature
Taiwan's Academica Sinica resource links by Assoc. Prof. Karen Chung @ ntu.edu.tw, links to various large corpora of classical and modern Chinese literature at the Academica Sinica in Taiwan [ http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/linguistics%20links.htm#AS ]
E-Book Library @ edu.ocac.gov.tw, large collection of books and stories, with English translations, online or downloadable, including contemporary, historical, fables and poetry [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/ocac_ebook/index.htm ]
Taiwan OCAC's Digitalized Publications, Taiwan OCAC's index page of all of its own e-books [ http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/interact/ebook/digitalPublish/index-e.html ] [ http://media.huayuworld.org/interact/ebook/digitalPublish/index-e.html ] which also include:
- Taiwan fables, @edu.ocac.gov.tw / @huayuworld.org
- children's stories @edu.ocac.gov.tw / @huayuworld.org
- the ancient "36 Strategems", @edu.ocac.gov.tw / @huayuworld.org
- riddles, @edu.ocac.gov.tw / @edu.ocac.gov.tw / @huayuworld.org
- riddle-phrases, @edu.ocac.gov.tw / @edu.ocac.gov.tw / @huayuworld.org
New Threads Electronic Library, "described by our readers as the most complete public archive site of Chinese classics available on the Web", and includes modern literature and non-fiction, all in Chinese [ http://www.xys.org/library.html ]
Baiyun.net online library, a vast online Chinese literature library including popular literature, all in Chinese [ http://www.baiyun.net/ ]
the online Yifan Public Library @ shuku.net, another large online Chinese literature library with texts from classical to modern literature, all in Chinese [ http://www.shuku.net ]
book.chaoxing.com, thousands, if not millions, of Chinese ebooks, all in Chinese [ http://book.chaoxing.com/ ]
xiaoshuo.be online novels, surf in a sea of novels, all in Chinese [ http://www.xiaoshuo.be/ ]
shulu.net, popular literature, all in Chinese [ http://www.shulu.net/ ]
New Novels (china-novel.com), a collection of contemporary Chinese novels available online, all in Chinese [ http://www.china-novel.com/ ]
Modern Chinese Literature online texts @ Rico's Hong Kong Entertainment Bar, around 15 examples, all in Chinese [ http://home.hkstar.com/~rico/sub1.htm ]
Readings @ zhongwen.com, mixture of 10 readings from classics to modern, with links to extensive reading resources [ http://zhongwen.com/m/xuan.htm ]
Chinese Literature @ University of Virginia, 8 books of literature from different periods [ http://www.virginia.edu/ealc/chinese_literature/ ]
Internet Chinese Text Archive @ ibiblio.org [ http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-text/ ]
SEE ALSO:
- Chinese poetry
- Classical Chinese Literature
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Read the Classics of Ancient Chinese Literature Online and Learn Chinese Language & Culture
Read and study Classical Literature for free online to improve your Chinese and appreciate Chinese culture. Hundreds and hundreds of ancient classical literary works such as classic novels, philosophy, Laozi, The Analects of Confucius, I Ching etc.
Links to Searchable and Archived Classical Chinese Texts, by Marjorie Chan [ http://chinalinks.osu.edu/c-links1.htm#cl-lit ]
A Classical Chinese Reader, “Language of the Dragon”, hosted by Prof. Tim Tianwei XIE @ csulb.edu, in 20 lessons with Grammar, Translation, Exercises, Homework, Vocabulary [ http://csulb.edu/~txie/360/Etext/index.htm ]
Wengu database of Chinese classical texts, comprehensive collection of Chinese classics and translations, with mouseover character annotations [ http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Intro ]
Classics @ zhongwen.com:
- Classical Chinese Literature, with each character hyperlinked to its definition and etymology. No Chinese software is necessary - characters are displayed as images. Links to English translations are included for most works. [ http://zhongwen.com/gudian.htm ]
- Confucian Classics, with each character hyperlinked to its definition and etymology. No Chinese software is necessary - characters are displayed as images. Links to English translations are included. [ http://zhongwen.com/rujia.htm ]
Chinese Text Project, "designed to present ancient Chinese texts, particularly those relating to Chinese philosophy, in a well-structured and properly cross-referenced manner" [ http://ctext.org/ ]
Hanji database @ Taiwan's Academica Sinica. All of the Chinese classics and dynastic histories in a searchable format (totally in Chinese, NO English) [ http://hanji.sinica.edu.tw/index.html ]
Chinese Classics @ China News Digest, an extensive collection of classics that includes *Pre-Qin Philosophers *Poetry *Prose *Biography *Commentary *Novels *Other Classical Literature *A Chronology of Chinese History [ http://www.cnd.org/Classics/ ] [ http://www.hxwz.com/Classics/ ]
Chinese Text Initiative @ University of Virginia Library, collection of Chinese classics [ http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/index.html ]
Ancient Books @ zdic.net, extensive online library of ancient classical texts & literature, all in Chinese [ http://gj.zdic.net/ ]
chinapage.com
- Chinese Literature Classics, a collection with some English translations [ http://www.chinapage.com/classic1.html ]
- Classical Chinese Novels, a collection with some English translations [ http://www.chinapage.com/novels.html ]
- Stories From Chinese Classical Literature, Stories/Parables/Proverbs From Chinese Classical Literature, with Chinese text, English translation [ http://www.chinapage.com/story/story.html ]
- Chinese Translation of World Literature, Shakespeare, Goethe, Orwell, Shelley, Jane Austen & more [ http://www.chinapage.com/world.html ]
Classics @ Confucius Institute Online, 12 classical stories with audio (no English) [ http://adult.chinese.cn/node_658.htm ], with English translation [ http://adult.chinese.cn/en/node_1059.htm ]
Classical Literature comics in English. English translations of 7 classical novels in picture book “comic” style. [ http://www.china-on-site.com/literatu/index.html ]
Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive @ Wesleyan University by Prof. Stephen Angle, with Late Qing and Republic Texts, Song through Mid-Qing Texts, Pre-Qin Texts [ http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/etext/index.html ]
Lexicon of Confucianism @ cuhk.edu.hk, searchable Lexicon of Confucianism [ http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/ConfLex/ ]
Classical Chinese culture, classical literature and poetry @ Oxford University's CTCFL (archived version), a web directory of classical literature and poetry
SEE ALSO:
- Classical sections in large Literature Resources
- Classical poetry
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Learn Chinese language through poems and poetry reading
Anyone for Chinese poetry? Expand your knowledge of Chinese language by reading and studying Chinese poems.
Tang Dynasty 300 Poems @ mandarinchineseschool.com, download PDF book, with English and Pinyin [ http://www.mandarinchineseschool.com/chinese-cultures/238-free-download-300-tang-poemsin-chinese-pinyin-and-english ]
Chinese Poems @ xcn-chinese.com, around 80 poems in Chinese, pinyin and English translation with audio [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_basic/Poems/ ]
Poetry @ Confucius Institute Online, over 40 poems with videos, pinyin and English [ http://adult.chinese.cn/node_660.htm ]
Ancient Poems @ china.org.cn, over 50 poems with beautiful interactive Flash files, with English [ http://www.china.org.cn/learning_chinese/ancient_poems/node_7046034.htm ]
Poetry @ chinesehelper.cn (all in Chinese, NO English):
- Poetry Channel, extensive categorized body of Chinese poetry from ancient to contemporary (all in Chinese, NO English) [ http://sc.chinesehelper.cn/ ]
- Classical Poetry Flash Animations, around 600 classical poems as beautiful interactive animations with audio using the Flash browser plugin [ http://bk.chinesehelper.cn/tssc/ ]
Poetry @ yes-chinese.com, classical poems with audio (totally in Chinese, NO English, programmed completely for the Flash browser plugin) [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/poetry/index.jsp ]
Classical Poems @ i.myechinese.com, over 60 Chinese classical poems, with audio, pinyin, vocabulary notes and analysis in Chinese and English (some missing sound files can be found here )
Classical Poetry @ chinapage.com, over 100 Chinese classical poems (totally in Chinese, NO English),
- poetry in simplified Chinese [ http://www.chinapage.com/gb/poetry/poetry.html ],
- poetry in traditional Chinese [ http://www.chinapage.com/big5/big5-poetry.html ]
Chinese Poems @ chinesetolearn.com, around 20 poems with Youtube.com videos; with Chinese , pinyin and English; analysis in English [ http://www.chinesetolearn.com/chinese-poems/ ]
Classical Poems sung for children @ gushi160.com, over 250 video songs with lyrics from classical poems, with Chinese subtitles, explanation and analysis in Chinese, uses Flash player browser plugin (click on 歌曲视频) at [ http://gushi160.com/ ]
Translated Poems @ the Chinese poemlife.com, many translated contemporary poems with Chinese and English [ http://www.poemlife.com/tranlist.htm ]
SEE ALSO: Poetry sections in large Literature Resources
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_ focused skills - Writing
Learn to Write Chinese Characters - Free Online Step-by-Step Lessons
Learn to Write Chinese Characters Step-by-Step with Free Online Lessons. Yes, even YOU can WRITE CHINESE!
Writing Chinese lessons @ chineselearner.com. Writing Chinese, with lessons on Pictographic Characters, Indicative Characters, Associative Characters, Pictophonetic Characters (Meaning Radicals, Phonetic Radicals), and 500 videos of character handwriting of common characters. [ http://www.chineselearner.com/writing/ ]
How to Write Chinese Characters @ Oxford University's CTCFL:
- How to Write Chinese Characters: Strokes & Radicals, all about radicals and 14 types of strokes, with stroke order animation [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Lang%20work/Radicals/Strokes&Radicals.htm ]
- How to Write Chinese Characters: Structure Types, practice examples for the 7 types of character structures, with stroke order animation, background grid, radical identification, audio [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/charindex.htm ]
Writing Chinese Characters @ xcn-chinese.com. Begins with 12 lessons about Chinese characters and how to write them; then around 100 lessons to practice writing over 500 characters, each lesson dealing with a group of related characters. Out of those lessons, 20 have full accompanying video lessons presented by native Chinese speaker instructors who speak Chinese and English. [ http://www.xcn-chinese.com/www/chinese_course/Characters/index.asp ]
Chinese Character Lessons @ zapchinese.com. Ten lesson on Chinese characters and how to write them, with video and audio. [ http://www.zapchinese.com/ ]
Chinese Writing Tutorial @ clearchinese.com for beginners (originally By Diana Lavarini & Anna Del Franco, 1999). A tutorial "to provide beginners all they need to write Chinese characters and find them in a dictionary, but can also amuse advanced students and the curious" and "provides many examples of single characters and compounds". The tutorial is in 12 parts and is based on the Chinese radicals. [ http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-writing/index.htm ] Also includes:
- Introduction to Chinese writing
- A brief history of Chinese characters
- How to use a Chinese dictionary
Learning Chinese Characters @ china-fun.net, assorted posts on Chinese characters and writing Chinese [ http://china-fun.net/LearnCHS/Character/ ]
Stroke Types @ mandarintube.com. Over 30 stroke types, click "start to learn" for character examples and audio.
Table of Strokes @ Jinan University, with audio for the names of the stroke types [ http://202.116.28.12/zwweb/web/others/bihua.htm ]
Variant Forms of Chinese Words @ Putonghua Study Net:
- Characters with Variant Forms, long list of individual Chinese characters that have variant forms, listed in pinyin alphabetic order
- Multiple Character Words with Variant Forms, long list of multiple character words with their variant forms
Chinese Character Writing Exercise Sheets prepared for various textbooks
[ http://www.uvm.edu/~chinese/characte.htm ]
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Learn Chinese written characters through Radicals - Etymology, Origins and the Evolution of the Basic Components of Chinese Characters
What components are Chinese characters made of? What are radicals in Chinese writing? How do I begin to understand and read Chinese written characters? How does the Chinese writing system work? How was Chinese writing created and how did it evolve? Learn all about RADICALS and the ETYMOLOGY of Chinese written characters.
ALL ABOUT Written Chinese @ Omniglot.com. Useful information from Omniglot.com:
- How the Chinese writing system works [ http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/horse.htm ]
- Structure of Chinese Writing, including layout, strokes, writing direction [ http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/structure.htm ]
- Written Chinese evolution of script types [ http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/written.htm ]
- Evolution of Chinese characters [ http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/evolution.htm ]
- Types of characters: pictographs, ideographs, their compounds, semantic-phonetic compounds [ http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/types.htm ]
- Chinese numerals [ http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/numbers.htm ]
- Simplified characters [ http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/simplified.htm ]
- Phonetic transcription of Chinese [ http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/chinese2.htm ]
Chinese Characters by MyEChinese:
- Understand Chinese Characters with the "Let's Enjoy Chinese" video lesson series, series of 15 video lessons, in English, on the fundamentals behind Chinese characters, on topics such as: Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Hieroglyphic Pictographs || Hieroglyphic Concept Indication Symbols || Order of Strokes || Compound Characters || Characters Similar in Shape but Different in Meaning || Numerals || Compounds of Components with Associated Meanings || Idea-Sound Pictophonetic Compound Characters || Multi-character Words || Simplified & Traditional Characters || Structure of Compound Characters || Structural Form of Radicals [ http://i.myechinese.com/apps/lib/index.php?s=/Group/index/gid/29 ]
- Chinese Characters, an introduction, with character writing animations using the Flash browser plugin. The introduction covers: Pictographs, Symbols, Pictophonetic characters || Structure of characters || Types of Strokes || Order of strokes [ http://www.myechinese.org/EN/Chinese/huashuo4.aspx ]
- On Chinese Characters, etymology for a selected word list, with pictures, old script, compound words, example sentences and audio. [ http://www.myechinese.org/EN/Chinese/Word_List.aspx ]
- Chinese Character etymology, etymological explanation for 100 characters, with picture, English explanation, evolution from ancient to modern script, examples of compound words and sentences [ http://i.myechinese.com/apps/lib/index.php?s=/Topic/index/gid/11 ]
Mini-guide to Chinese Characters @ BBC Languages, quick answers to basic questions: What are Chinese characters? || How old? || Pictures? || Pictographs || Ideographs || Meaning/meaning || Sound/meaning || How many? || Single characters? || Difficult to learn? || Simplified or traditional? [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/mini_guides/characters/ ]
Chinese Writing @ clearchinese.com:
- Introduction to the Chinese writing [ http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-writing/introduction.htm ]
- A brief history of Chinese characters [ http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-writing/history.htm ]
Chinese Characters & Radicals @ Oxford University's CTCFL. All about radicals and also: "How is a Chinese character formed?" and "How do I learn and remember Chinese characters?" [ http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Radical_index.htm ]
Basics of Chinese Writing from LIOW Kah Joon:
- Chinese Writing Intro [ http://www.living-chinese-symbols.com/chinese-writing.html ]
- Chinese Radicals [ http://www.living-chinese-symbols.com/chinese-radicals.html ]
- Stroke Order Basics [ http://www.living-chinese-symbols.com/stroke-order.html ]
- Is There a Chinese Alphabet? [ http://www.living-chinese-symbols.com/chinese-alphabet.html ]
FanJian Chinese Character Tutorial Program @ U.C. Berkeley. Confused between Traditional vs. Simplified forms of Chinese writing? This online tutorial program with practice exercises "offers a systematic and organized way by which students who know only one form of Chinese character can learn the other form", in 3 different levels. [ http://www.language.berkeley.edu/fanjian/tier1.html ]
The Radicals by Dr. Ulrich Theobald @ chinaknowledge.de, with overview, explanations and notes. [ http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Script/radicals.html ]
Components and Radicals @ mandarintube.com. Lessons for every radical and component, with examples and audio.
Learning 100 Chinese Radicals @ chineseclass.org (actually 110!). 11 lessons on the radicals, with exercises, audio and animation. [ http://www.chineseclass.org/radicals/ ]
Chinese Character Learning System by Dr Kai CHU (archived version). Over 100 of the basic radical characters with etymological explanations, under a classification system such as Animals, Vegetation, Physical Body, Four Necessities, The Universe, Divination, Five Stages of Change, Humanity:
- index of basic radical characters and their categories
- the menu of 8 categories
Table of Radicals @ Jinan University, with the Chinese names for each radical, with audio and pinyin for those names, and examples [ http://202.116.28.12/zwweb/web/others/pianpang1.htm ]
Mandarin @ memrise.com. Learn the memrise Mandarin course of 3000 Chinese characters and words the uniquely scientific memrise way, with mnemonics, interactive quizzes, etymology, pinyin, English, audio, hand writing video [ http://www.memrise.com/demo/mandarin/ ]
Etymology of 500 Chinese Characters @ China's OCEO (Overseas Chinese Language & Culture Education Online, sponsored by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council), shows how each of these characters evolved from ancient to modern script, from copied pages of the book 汉字演变500例 [ http://www.hwjyw.com/resource/resource-yjyl/resource-hzsy/index2.shtml ]
Learn Chinese Characters @ learnchinesewebsite.com. Learn 240 Chinese characters by explanatory etymological comic pictures. [ http://www.learnchinesewebsite.com/category/learn-chinese-characters/ ]
"Hanji" playlist @ Youtube.com, short videos for over 130 Chinese characters showing their evolution as the character morphs from its ancient form to its modern form [ http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D64FE3400D3356A ]
Pictographs explained @ chinesehour.com, around 70 characters explained as pictographs, with graphic illustrations, Chinese explanation, English explanation, variations in ancient scripts, and Flash audio [ http://www.chinesehour.com/library/chinese-pictograph/ ]
Interactive Activities for 20 Characters by CI-MSU @ The Open University of China, learn all about each character through interactive activities for Flash browser plugin, learn the etymology, meaning, historical and cultural background, stroke order animation with practice by writing with your mouse, game play by creating word combination examples [ http://en.crtvu.edu.cn/language-projects/learning-chinese/character-of-the-day/ ]
CHINESE CHARACTER ETYMOLOGICAL DATABASES:
Smarthanzi.net, find a character's English (or Fench) definition by the 858 Phonetic Elements or by Radicals, hyperlinked with etymological lessons from Leon Wieger's classic reference book on Chinese Characters. [ http://www.smarthanzi.net/ ]
Chineseetymology.org [ http://www.chineseetymology.org/ ] [ http://www.internationalscientific.org/ ]
See countless ancient variations of each Chinese character (requires input of individual Chinese character) at Richard Sears' website.
Chinese-Characters.org, database of Chinese characters (browseable by pinyin index or radical index) which shows for each character: Phonetic & Semantic character components, Ancient & Archaic forms, Etymology notes, Memorization mnemonic notes, any existing Variants, Simplified & Traditional forms, Other characters which contain the present character categorized by phonetic or semantic function, Usage Frequency, and much more [ http://chinese-characters.org/ ]
Chinese character decomposition @ wikimedia.org. Chinese character decomposition (over 20,0000!) according to their elemental parts. [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Chinese_characters_decomposition ]
Zhongwen.com, a mountainous achievement in the modern Internet era by Rick Harbaugh, based on the work of a 2000 year old etymological dictionary. A unique online dictionary that, through thorough hyperlinked cross-referencing of character components and radicals, shows graphically the close etymological interconnections between the thousands of Chinese characters, in a genealogical tree system [ http://zhongwen.com/ ]
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What is the proper stroke order to write that Chinese character?
writeinchinese.com, animated GIFs [ http://writeinchinese.com/ ]
Learn Chinese Characters Dictionary @ chinesetimeschool.com, dictionary with flash stroke animation, flash writing practice, and audio [ http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/en-us/study-tools/learn-chinese-characters/ ]
Learn to Write Chinese Characters @ learnchineseez.com, 4000 characters (in order of usage frequency) with animated strokes, dictionary information and usage examples
- Simplified characters [ http://www.learnchineseez.com/read-write/simplified/index.php ]
- Traditional characters [ http://www.learnchineseez.com/read-write/traditional/index.php ]
Animated Chinese Characters @ lost-theory.org/ocrat, stroke order animation for Chinese characters in animated GIF images [ http://lost-theory.org/ocrat/chargif/ ]
Chinese Character Stroke Order Dictionary @ visualmandarin.com, stroke order diagrams for characters in Pinyin order, with English, Pinyin and audio [ http://www.visualmandarin.com/tools/chinese-stroke-order/ ]
Chinese Characters for "Integrated Chinese" textbook lessons @ usc.edu, stroke order animation, with English, Pinyin and audio, follows “Integrated Chinese” lessons
[ http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/character_page.html ]
[ http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/]
Stroke Order Diagrams @ chineselearners.net, stroke order Java applet, enter any Chinese character (not pinyin) [ http://www.chineselearners.net/OnlineTools/ShowStrokeOrder ]
Chinese Dictionary @ shuifeng.net, in Pinyin order, NO English, stroke order animator with some morphological data, with audio [ http://www.shuifeng.net/Dic/Html/Index.htm ]
Learn to Write Characters by Dr Tim Tianwei Xie @ csulb.edu, lots of animated characters in Pinyin order [ http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/azi/page1.htm ] [ http://www.elanguageschool.com/chinese/writing ]
- Traditional characters [ http://www.learnchineseez.com/read-write/traditional/index.php ]
Animated Chinese Characters @ lost-theory.org/ocrat, stroke order animation for Chinese characters in animated GIF images [ http://lost-theory.org/ocrat/chargif/ ]
Chinese Character Stroke Order Dictionary @ visualmandarin.com, stroke order diagrams for characters in Pinyin order, with English, Pinyin and audio [ http://www.visualmandarin.com/tools/chinese-stroke-order/ ]
Chinese Characters for "Integrated Chinese" textbook lessons @ usc.edu, stroke order animation, with English, Pinyin and audio, follows “Integrated Chinese” lessons
[ http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/character_page.html ]
[ http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/]
Stroke Order Diagrams @ chineselearners.net, stroke order Java applet, enter any Chinese character (not pinyin) [ http://www.chineselearners.net/OnlineTools/ShowStrokeOrder ]
Chinese Dictionary @ shuifeng.net, in Pinyin order, NO English, stroke order animator with some morphological data, with audio [ http://www.shuifeng.net/Dic/Html/Index.htm ]
Learn to Write Characters by Dr Tim Tianwei Xie @ csulb.edu, lots of animated characters in Pinyin order [ http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/azi/page1.htm ] [ http://www.elanguageschool.com/chinese/writing ]
Strokes of Chinese Characters @ china.org.cn, over 40 lessons to show you how to write the strokes for over 250 characters, grouped by meaning
[ http://www.china.org.cn/learning_chinese/chinese_characters/node_7046036.htm ]
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A multitude of free online TOOLS for learning the Chinese language!
Arch Chinese super multi-featured "Chinese learning system" [ http://www.archchinese.com/ ]
Key features include:
- Animates stroke order for ALL the Chinese characters defined in the national standard character set of mainland China and 7,000 frequently-used characters in the traditional Chinese character set, which is used in Taiwan and Hong Kong
- Generates character writing worksheets with stroke sequences, English definitions and Pinyin in PDF format for offline handwriting practice. With one mouse click, you can generate worksheets for more than 100 characters instantly. The worksheets are highly customizable. It is also great for Chinese language teachers to create teaching materials. Here is a writing worksheet example
- Export character stroke sequences to JPEG or PNG images.
- Powerful and flexible character and phrase search solution. Users can search characters, phrases and example sentences in Chinese-English dictionary and sentence repository by Pinyin, radicals, English word, English phrase, English sentence, English sentence fragments, Chinese characters, Chinese phrases or Chinese sentence fragments. Furthermore, you can mix English, Chinese character or phrase and Pinyin in your search query. Search results are ordered by usage frequency and complexity
- Similar to the YouTube videos, the Character Animation Creator allows you to create embeddable and interactive character animationsquickly. You can integrate the animations into your school or personal web pages.
- Chinese character decomposition explorer allows you to drill down into the character components one layer at a time. It helps you understand what components a character is made up from and how characters are related to each other
- Displays common example phrases and sentences using the character and their English translations
- ArchMemo, an innovative Spaced Repetition System (SRS) to help you learn Chinese characters and phrases efficiently and effectively. You can use the pre-defined flashcards or create your own.
- Features Chinese Radical Table to help users look up a character easily. The table lists all the radicals for the simplified Chinese characters with English being the tool tips. You can click a radical to view the characters with the radical. For some common radicals, such as 扌 and 木, there may be hundreds of characters with the radicals. The system allows you to perform two-level sorting, first level by stroke count, usage frequency or Pinyin (alphabetically), and second level by stroke count.
- Search characters by character components. You can either click the component of a character on the character animator, or enter a component on the search box of Search characters by components page to look up characters with the component. Again, the system allows the user to perform two-level sorting on the search results, first level by usage frequency, character structure or Pinyin(alphabetically), and second level by stroke count.
- With the unique Chinese Phrase Handout Generator, you can quickly make customized Mandarin Chinese phrase or sentence handouts for your classes.
- Animates a character stroke by stroke, one character at a time or continuously animates all the characters you have imported or studied.
- Displays radicals, components, character usage frequency, character structure information, English translations, stroke counts, Pinyin and the corresponding traditional characters (if any)
Chinesetools.eu [ http://www.chinesetools.eu/ ] includes:
Chinese Dictionary of Examples || Chinese Translator || Chinese Text To Speech || Romanization Converter || Chinese Annotated News || Chinese Annotation Tool || Chinese Number Conversion || Chinese Unit Converter || Chinese Stroke Order || Chinese Practice Sheet generator || Hand Writing Recognition || Chinese To Pinyin Converter || BIG5 To GB || GB To BIG5 || Chinese To Unicode for HTML || Unicode HTML To Chinese (for decoding Unicode) || Pinyin To Unicode for HTML || Pinyin Virtual Keyboard (output pinyin with tone marks) || Online IME (Write Chinese using pinyin) || Chinese Family Titles || Make a Chinese Calligraphy || Name in a Chinese Drawing || Chinese Painting Generator
Chinese-tools.com [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools ] includes:
Online Dictionaries against multiple languages|| Chengyu Dictionary of 30,000 proverbial idioms || Annotation Tool || online Chinese Input system using pinyin || Mouse Chinese Input system by writing with your mouse || Pinyin Editor for your computer || Write Pinyin with Tone Marks || Chinese text to Pinyin Converter || Traditional to Simplified converter || Simplified to Traditional Converter || Chinese Family Relationship Terms || Create your own Chinese Calligraphy
Mandarintools.com [ http://www.mandarintools.com/ ], over 30 tools, with:
flashcards || annotator || add pinyin || online dictionary || Chinese GIF creator || Chinese encoding converters for computerized characters || number converter || calendar converter || Chinese segmenter
- Chinese Romanization Converter, between 9 phonetic systems including Pinyin (numbers, tone marks), Bopomofo, Yale, Wade-Giles [ http://www.mandarintools.com/pyconverter.html ]
Chinese Savvy Toolbox [ http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/tools/ ] lots, including:
text-to-speech & pinyin-to-speech generators || Chinese Pinyin Editor writes with tone marks || write Chinese characters by pinyin input || write Chinese characters by mouse handwriting input || Chinese Annotation adds pinyin || Chinese pinyin pronunciation tool || Chinese English translator || Chinese speech generator || Chinese measurement unit converter
Chinese projects @ lost-theory.org [ http://lost-theory.org/chinese/ ]
- [ http://lost-theory.org/ocrat/ ]
- Animated Chinese Characters writing stroke by stroke
[ http://lost-theory.org/ocrat/chargif/ ]
- Convert Chinese text to Image (PNG)... with styles!
[ http://lost-theory.org/ocrat/reaj/ ]
- Chinese Phonetics Table with sound files
[ http://lost-theory.org/chinese/phonetics/ ]
- Type a pinyin string to hear how it sounds, pinyin-to-speech
[ http://lost-theory.org/chinese/phonetics/playstring.html ]
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Chinese Character Databases & Useful Dictionaries. Free! Online! Really huge resources!
nciku.com - "more than a dictionary", the cool "Next Treasure House of Words" created by one of Asia's largest transnational internet companies, with a high level of technological interactivity; Chinese-English, English-Chinese, as well as Chinese with multiple languages
- with auto-complete
- search input by Chinese characters, English, pinyin, radicals, and even handwriting recognition
- with illustrations to aid meaning
- audio for words and sentence examples
- with pinyin on mouseover
nciku Translator - pinyin available [ http://tool.nciku.com/pinyin-translator/ ]
nciku mini [ http://www.nciku.com/mini ] - small screen version of nciku
nciku mobile for mobile phones [ http://m.nciku.com/ ]
nciku Toolbar - easily show nciku entries when reading Chinese web pages, and other nciku functionality via browser toolbar [ http://tool.nciku.com/toolbar ]
nciku.com.tw - uses traditional Chinese characters
nciku Video Notes are short animations designed to explain what differentiates Chinese words (almost 100 different groups) which have the same or very similar meanings in English. [ http://blog.nciku.com/blog/en/nciku-video-notes/ ]
nciku Notes to explain what differentiates Chinese words (over 1000 words) which have the same or very similar meanings in English. [ http://www.nciku.com/qna/allnote?dictype=zh ]
nciku Vocab Lists [ http://www.nciku.com/vocab ]
- choose from thousands of vocab lists (with pinyin, English & audio) or easily, and even automatically, make your own
- make an automated MP3 audio recording of the vocab list
- export to your computer
- print flashcards
- use vocab lists in four kinds of interactive online Memorization Tests: fill in the correct word, choose the correct definition, translate, dictation
- thousands of vocab lists / online flashcards by theme, with pinyin, English, pictures & audio @ nciku Theme Words [ http://www.nciku.com/theme ], study the Theme Words through online Flashcards with hide/reveal fields [ http://hi.nciku.com/space.php?do=testflashcards ], or in a Theme Word Quiz [ http://hi.nciku.com/space.php?do=testflashcards ]
HSK vocabulary tests in Learning Exercises @ nciku.com [ http://hi.nciku.com/space.php?do=test ] Vocabulary tests, Pinyin Tests and Fill-in-the-blank tests for the various HSK levels
Learn with the nciku Random Character Generator - with English definition, pinyin, and stroke order animation [ http://blog.nciku.com/blog/en/?page_id=724 ]
nciku Conversations [ http://www.nciku.com/conversation ] - Learn Chinese conversation with Chinese text, pinyin, English and audio. Over 700 topics!
Yellowbridge.com Dictionary [ http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/chinese-dictionary.php ]
Search input by Chinese characters, pinyin, or English. Features include:
- Talking dictionary lets you listen to words right from your computer.
- Handwriting recognition. If you don't recognize a character, you can simply draw it with your mouse to search for it.
- Fuzzy pinyin matches words even when you are unsure of the exact pronunciation.
- Word and character decomposition, character etymology, and stroke order.
- Lists related words that share the same head or tail word; derived words, and words with a similar pronunciation.
- Example sentences.
MDBG dictionary [ http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php ]
- enter Chinese characters or Pinyin or English
- with Chinese word at beginning of compound words, at end of compound words, and in the middle of compound words
- with audio
- with example sentences from jukuu.com
MDBG Practice Chinese tools [ http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=practice ]
- Online Flashcards: You can create your own flashcards set based on your favorite study texts. Just copy & paste Chinese text. Or create flashcards using predefined HSK levels. The characters are divided into 6 levels according to the HSK vocabulary. [ http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=flashcard ]
- Create an Online Chinese Character Quiz. You can create your own character quiz based on your favorite study texts by copying & pasting Chinese text; or create quizzes using predefined HSK levels. The characters are divided into 6 levels according to the HSK vocabulary. [ http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=charquiz ]
- Receive Vocabulary Web Feeds ten times a day, using 6 different predefined HSK levels [ http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=feeds ]
MDBG.net hosts and maintains CC-CEDICT, a widely used opensource Chinese-English dictionary database. The objective of the CEDICT project was to create an online, downloadable (as opposed to searchable-only) public-domain Chinese-English dictionary. [ http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=cedict ] [ http://cc-cedict.org/wiki/start ]
Look up Chinese characters in the CEDICT by handwritten/mousewritten input [ http://www.kiang.org/jordan/software/hanzilookup/hanzidict.html ]
Zhongwen.com, a mountainous achievement in the modern Internet era by Rick Harbaugh, based on the work of a 2000 year old etymological dictionary. A unique online dictionary that, thorough hyperlinked cross-referencing of character components and radicals, shows graphically the close etymological interconnections between the thousands of Chinese characters, in a genealogical tree system [ http://zhongwen.com/ ].
- Input English or Pinyin [ http://zhongwen.com/m/search.htm ]
- browse English [ http://zhongwen.com/m/yinghan.htm ],
- browse by Pinyin [ http://zhongwen.com/s/ziyin.htm ], browse by bopomofo Zhuyin [ http://zhongwen.com/s/zhuyin.htm ],
- browse by radical [ http://zhongwen.com/s/bushou.htm ], browse by stroke count [ http://zhongwen.com/s/bishu.htm ]
- Chinese Characters Dictionary WEB, jump between more than a dozen different dictionaries [ http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm ]. Input English, Chinese characters or browse by Radical
Smarthanzi.net is also with etymological features [ http://www.smarthanzi.net/ ].
Find a character's English (or Fench) definition by the 858 Phonetic Elements or by Radicals, hyperlinked with etymological lessons from Leon Wieger's classic reference book on Chinese Characters.
Chineseetymology.org [ http://www.chineseetymology.org/ ] [ http://www.internationalscientific.org/ ]
See countless ancient variations of each Chinese character (requires input of individual Chinese character) at Richard Sears' website.
Chinese character decomposition @ wikimedia.org. Chinese character decomposition (over 20,0000!) according to their elemental parts. [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Chinese_characters_decomposition ]
Dictionaries @ Chinesesavvy.com:
- People's Chinese Dictionary: input English, Pinyin or Chinese character; output with audio, stroke order animation, and many advanced options [ http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/dictionary/ ]
- Speech Dictionary: conversational sentences classified alphabetically by topic, with audio [ http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/dictionary/sentence/DictionarySentencePO.ot ]
- Chinese Idioms Dictionary: search input English, Pinyin or Chinese characters; or browse by alphabetical Pinyin [ http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/dictionary/dic-1.html ]
- Chinese Food and Dishes Dictionary: search input English, Pinyin or Chinese characters ; or browse by alphabetical Pinyin [ http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/dictionary/dic-5.html ]
Don't forget the many TOOLS at chinesesavvy.com.
Dictionaries @ chinese-tools.com:
- Dictionary [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/dictionary.html ]
- input English, Pinyin or Chinese characters
- output with synonym button, example button, button for detailed Chinese data
- Chinese Dictionary of Example Sentences, accessible via linked button in dictionary entries, also browseable in Pinyin index order [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/chinese/examples/pinyin.html ]
- Chinese Synonyms Thesaurus, input by Chinese character only [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/synonyms.html ], also accessible via linked button in dictionary entries
- Chinese Character Dictionary, detailed Chinese data for every Chinese character, also accessible via linked button in dictionary entries:
- input by Pinyin or Chinese character [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/sinograms.html ]
- browse in Pinyin order [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/sinograms.html?p= ]
- browse by Radical [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/sinograms.html?r= ]
- Chengyu Dictionary of Idioms, input Pinyin or Chinese character [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/chinese/chengyu/dictionary ]
- a portion of the idiom database has some English translation, browseable in Pinyin index order [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/chinese/chengyu/dictionary/english.html ]
- there is also a Pinyin index for browsing the complete idiom database [ http://www.chinese-tools.com/chinese/chengyu/dictionary/all.html ]
Don't forget the many TOOLS at chinese-tools.com.
Dictionaries @ mandarintools.com:
- dictionary: input English, Pinyin or Chinese characters; option to display Chinese output as GIF images [ http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html ]
- Chinese Character Dictionary: search for individual Chinese characters; input English, Pinyin, Stroke count or Chinese character [ http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html ]; or lookup by Radical [ http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict_rs.html ]
Don't forget the many TOOLS at mandarintools.com.
Dictionaries @ chinesetools.eu:
- dictionary: over ten different input methods, output with synonym button [ http://www.chinesetools.eu/chinese-dictionary/ ]
- Chinese Synonyms Thesaurus, input by Chinese character only [ http://www.chinesetools.eu/tools/synonym/ ], also accessible via linked button in dictionary entries
- Translator [ http://www.chinesetools.eu/tools/chinese-translation/ ]
Don't forget the many TOOLS at chinesetools.eu
LIN Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage, online version published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong [ http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/ ]
"This is the best Chinese-English (English-Chinese) dictionary available online." says uni-heidelberg.de
Chinese Character Dictionary @ chinesetimeschool.com
[ http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/en-us/study-tools/learn-chinese-characters/ ]
- input Chinese character or Pinyin; output with character stroke animation, character writing practice with mouse, audio, example sentences, English
Audio dictionary @ yes-chinese.com, with example sentences:
- Chinese to English [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/v2010/dict_ce/search.do ] input Pinyin or Chinese characters, output includes Chinese audio
- English to Chinese [ http://www.yes-chinese.com/v2010/dict_ec/search.do ], output includes English audio
Dictionary @ clearchinese.com [ http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-english-dictionary.htm ]
- input by Chinese characters, Pinyin or English; output has magnify option
Dictionaries @ chinalanguage.com (mirror @ chineselanguage.org):
- translation dictionary
- input English [ http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/?pageID=Ec/Query ]
- input Pinyin [ http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/?pageID=Pinyin/Query ]
- Chinese character dictionary, with audio
- search by bushou radical [ http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/?pageID=CharDict/Bushou ]
- input English [ http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/?pageID=CharDict/Query:English ]
- input Pinyin [ http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/?pageID=CharDict/Query:Pinyin ]
- input "Four Corner" digits [ http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/?pageID=CharDict/Query:FourCorner ]
- input cangjie code [ http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/?pageID=CharDict/Query:Cangjie ]
Dictionary tools @ zhongwenweb.com, over five different dictionary tools
[ http://www.zhongwenweb.com/worddict.html ]
Dict.cn, English to Chinese online dictionary [ http://dict.cn/en/ ], with example sentences
Chinese dictionary @ HKTV.cc [ http://hktv.cc/cd/hanyupinyin/ ]
multi feature dictionary with stroke order animation, gadgets/widgets and browser integration
Cojak.org [ http://www.cojak.org/ ] dictionary database organized by radical chart
zdic.net, Chinese to Chinese online dictionary, input Chinese characters or Pinyin, output includes audio, character stroke animation and some definitions in English [ http://www.zdic.net/ ]
Chinese dictionary resources @ yourdictionary.com
[ http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/sinotibe.html ], an extensive range
Google Translate. Don't forget there's [ http://translate.google.com/ ]
SEE ALSO Databases in entry on Chinese Character Etymology
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What are the MOST COMMON Chinese words / characters that I should learn?
Most Frequently Used Characters I, 300 characters, @ University of Michigan from Prof. David Porter [ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/top300.html ]
Most Frequently Used Characters II, 500 characters (301 - 800), @ University of Michigan from Prof. David Porter [ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/next500.html ]
1000 most frequently used characters, Learn Chinese Characters the Efficient Way @ Wake Forest University, by Assoc. Prof. Patrick Edwin Moran (retired). Learn the 1000 most common characters divided into 4 sets, using a javascript "Tutor" system showing components, pinyin pronunciation and English definitions.
[ http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/lrnHz/LearnHZ_Sets.html ]
1000 most commonly used characters, from Youqin WANG at the University of Chicago:
From 1-500:
- simplified [ http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classes/chinese/simplified.html ]
- traditional [ http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classes/chinese/traditional.html ]
From 501-1000:
- simplified [ http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classes/chinese/simplified2.html ]
- traditional [ http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classes/chinese/traditional2.html ]
2000 most frequently used characters @ zhongwen.com, in groups of 500
[ http://zhongwen.com/x/pinlu.htm ]
3000 most common Chinese characters, with dictionary data, by Patrick Zein
[ http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000en.html ]
3500 most frequently used Chinese characters @ archchinese.com:
- the first 2500 [ http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_characters.html ]
- the next 1000 [ http://www.archchinese.com/extra_chinese_characters.html ]
4000 Most Frequent Characters @ xiaoma.info, in tables of 500 [ http://www.xiaoma.info/ ]
4000 Most Frequently Used Characters @ learnchineseez.com, with animated strokes, dictionary information and usage examples [ http://www.learnchineseez.com/read-write/simplified/index.php ]
All the 6500 Chinese Characters
[ http://accesschinese.com/character/6500chinesecharacterslist.html ]
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MDBG Chinese Reader software [ http://mdbg.loqu8.com/ ] free version is ad-supported
annotate Chinese text / Auto-translate / Web Translate / translate with mouseover / translate highlighted text / Dictionary lookup / AutoPronounce / Breakdown (decompose) compound words / Show HSK levels (Chinese proficiency exam) / Multi-language ExtensionsMLX / Lookup, Favorites and History lists / List management (export, sort, group, show/hide) / Rubytext annotation
annotate Chinese text / Auto-translate / Web Translate / translate with mouseover / translate highlighted text / Dictionary lookup / AutoPronounce / Breakdown (decompose) compound words / Show HSK levels (Chinese proficiency exam) / Multi-language ExtensionsMLX / Lookup, Favorites and History lists / List management (export, sort, group, show/hide) / Rubytext annotation
Character Mine [ http://www.charactermine.com/ ]
“This is a daily self-test program for learning Chinese vocab. The program continuously encourages you to form connections between the new items you are learning and your existing vocabulary database. Your existing database of characters is presented as an interconnected web, allowing infinite drilldown… lets you add items to your list… If offers a host of additional features such as one-click image search and flash-card style testing…”
Anki flashcard software (Spaced Repetition System) [ http://ankisrs.net/index.html ]
Flashcard software (with online web version) that is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos. Spaced Repetition System for flashcard learning deployment.
“This is a daily self-test program for learning Chinese vocab. The program continuously encourages you to form connections between the new items you are learning and your existing vocabulary database. Your existing database of characters is presented as an interconnected web, allowing infinite drilldown… lets you add items to your list… If offers a host of additional features such as one-click image search and flash-card style testing…”
Anki flashcard software (Spaced Repetition System) [ http://ankisrs.net/index.html ]
Flashcard software (with online web version) that is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos. Spaced Repetition System for flashcard learning deployment.
Gradint flashcard software (Graduated-Interval-Recall) for self-study of foreign languages
[ http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/gradint/ ]
Software to make audio “flashcards” that appear in a special pattern designed to help you remember. Uses a variant of the “graduated-interval recall” method published by Pimsleur.
Studybase Mandarin is a database and a viewer application that contains a vast array of resources with which to study Mandarin. These include FlashCards, Lessons, Tests, Chat interpreters, IME, and dictionaries. Module One is a data file that contains the first group of lessons. Version 0.45 adds data and security improvements. Module Two is a data file that contains the second group of lessons.
WaveSurfer, free software for sound visualization [ http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ ]
use it to visualize and improve your pronunciation of Chinese rising and falling tones
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