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Chinese Resources

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Chinese Online Resources

http://languagecenter.cla.umn.edu/index.php?page=links_chinese

This is the University of Minnesota CLA Language Center Chinese website. It has a great number of useful links.

http://www.all.umn.edu/chinese_language/

This is the website of the Chinese language program at the University of Minnesota. It has Language Courses, Scholarship Opportunities, Study in China, Course Descriptions, Useful Links for studying Chinese, and Technology in Chinese Teaching and Learning. All the first and second year Chinese language courses also have online exercises.

http://new.060s.com/news/mulu/481/

This site has more than 500 free stories in Flash cartoon form, very attractive to kids.

http://new.060s.com/news/mulu/478/

With nearly 200 ancient Chinese idiom stories in cartoons, this site offers rich cultural, historical, and educational information.

1. Typing And Displaying Chinese Characters

http://www.all.umn.edu/chinese_language/Resource/AsianWordProcessing.html

Word processing in Chinese and other Asian languages.

http://www.all.umn.edu/chinese%5Flanguage/Resource/Email&WWW.html

Displaying Chinese characters, decoding and sending emails in Chinese.

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/east.asian.studies/classnotes.html

Lesson-by-lesson notes on Chinese characters for Integrated Chinese, Level One, Part One.

http://www.hello-han.com/ch-education/hanyurumen/word/pianpang/pianpang.htm

Names and examples of Chinese radicals.

2. Online Learning Resources

Online Courses and Exercises:

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/lessons/1/index.htm

An excellent Website for Beginning and Intermediate Chinese lessons, with video, audio, speaking, grammar exercises, and much, much more.

http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese

Over 30 online Chinese lessons, each with two recorded conversations, grammar, and substitution drill exercises.

http://chinese.rutgers.edu/content_c.htm

Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Chinese reading courses with recorded dialogues, passages, vocabulary, and grammar explanation.

http://www.mandarintools.com/flashcard.html

Flashcards for the 999 most commonly used Chinese characters.

http://www.chinesepod.com

Podcast of various levels of Chinese lessons updated almost every day. Once free, you can now only have a 7-day free trial, and have to pay if you want to continue to use this resources.

http://faculty.virginia.edu/cll/chinese_reading/

65 reading passages with sound files of Beginning and Intermediate Chinese. The "audio" link opens both the passage and its sound file.

http://ns4.swl.net/radiochina/chinese/fun.htm

Called "Fun with Chinese," this site introduces some aspects of the Chinese language, useful for beginners.

Online Chinese Language Games:

http://www.quia.com/shared/

Search and find free online games on over 100 topics, including Chinese. If you’re interested in creating Chinese language games on your own, go to

http://www.quia.com/

and subscribe to it. The fee is $49 a year.

http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/chineselearn/

Excellent free online interactive Chinese language games, including Vocabulary, Dialogue, and Idiom. Students can play all kinds of games and gain scores. These games are in traditional characters. The website also has a "Flash Game Zone," where instructors can easily create their own games for their students, in both simplified and traditional characters.

Reference Materials and Dictionaries:

http://www.rikai.com/

A very good online reading tool for Chinese and Japanese.

http://www.popupchinese.com/tools/adso

This site has a number of Chinese language tools, including dictionary, Chinese character and pinyin conversion, translation, and annotation. The Pinyin tool is very good.

http://www.zhongwen.com/

A Chinese online dictionary.

http://www.pinyinannotator.com/

Enter or copy any Chinese text in the box, and the text will be annotated with Pinyin. For reading Chinese only. The annotated text can’t be copied to a Word document.

http://www.chinese-tools.com/

A collection of several kinds of Chinese language learning tools.

http://www.ycwsx.com/zt/yw/chengyu1/chengyu.htm

A collection of 360 ancient stories of Chinese idioms, each with cartoon and sound to tell the story.

http://www.chineseon.net/

A site that contains a good Chinese chatroom. Go to Chat (liao tian) and you can start to enter Chinese and chat with others.

Culture and Society:

http://new.060s.com/news/mulu/478/

With early 200 ancient Chinese idiom stories in cartoons, this site offers rich cultural, historical, and educational information.

http://new.060s.com/news/mulu/481/

This site has more than 500 Chinese stories in Flash cartoon form, very attractive to kids.

http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html

Called Chinese links by University of Northern Iowa, this website offers a lot of information on Chinese culture and society, including Chinese history, geography, festivity, cuisine, newspaper, and so on.

3. Miscellaneous

Literature:

http://ebook.mumayi.net/52/

This site offers e-version of all kinds of Chinese literary and history books

http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Edporter/sampler/sampler.html

A collection of Classical, Modern Chinese literature, Chinese film scripts and song lyrics, Chinese fables, children’s stories, history, and language in daily life.

http://www.chinapage.com/poem/farpoem.html#old

Famous lines in Chinese poetry and the original poems from which they were quoted.

http://www.chinapage.com/poetry9.html

A collection of classical Chinese poems. You can also hear each of them read.

http://hk.geocities.com/wbun2/poems.htm

Thousands of Chinese classical poems from various dynasties.

http://www.guxiang.com/shici/tangshi/index2.htm

Appreciation of Tang Poetry.

http://www.guxiang.com/shici/songci/index2.htm

Appreciation of the Song Dynasty’s Ci poetry.