Useful Web Sites for Teaching and Learning Chinese

Contents Introduction to the Chinese Language...3 Learning Pronunciation...4 Learning Conversations...6 Discussion and Chat...8 Learning Characters...8 Learning Grammar...11 Reading Mate

Useful Web Sites for Teaching and Learning Chinese

Collected by Tianwei Xie California State University, Long Beach

June 2001

This list contains the web sites that I have started to collect since 1997 During the past years, the list has been updated regularly However, some new web sites appear every day and some sites became inactive or impossible to be accessed Users of this list should be aware of this fact and make appropriate adjustments

Contents

Introduction to the Chinese Language 3

Learning Pronunciation 4

Learning Conversations 6

Discussion and Chat 8

Learning Characters 8

Learning Grammar 11

Reading Materials 12

Listening 14

On-line Dictionaries 15

Learning Chinese Translation Online 17

Testing Your Chinese 17

Links for Chinese Studies 18

Universities, Colleges, Institutes and Schools Offering Chinese, Chinese Language Associations 19

Language Research, Textbooks, Learning Materials Database 20

Chinese Bookstores 22

Search Engines 24

Seek Help from Experts 25

Learners' Experience 25

CD Titles and other multimedia programs for Learning Chinese 25

Review Articles 26

Learning Chinese CD ROMs, tapes and software 27

Study Abroad 30

Other Resources 31

Introduction to the Chinese Language

Branner, David Prager

Guide to Gwoyeu Romatzyh

Sciban, Shu-ning and Xiao-jie Yang, Univ of Calgary

The City Univ of Hong Kong

LISRC Computerized System for Learning Pinyin

A Brief Introduction to Shanghai hua

http://plaza27.mbn.or.jp/~yilingmu/zhanhe/index.html

(In Japanese)

Bai, Jianhua, Kenyon College

Video Clips of Survival Chinese

Singapore Promote Mandarin Council

Basic Business Mandarin Chinese

Xie, Tianwei Translated by Gwon, Young June

Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online (Level I) for Korean speakers

(Students can chat here in Pinyin)

Huang, Kaibo & Huizhen Wu

Chinese Learners Chat Room

(A Book about Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese)

University of Iowa Students

Chinese Flashcards

2001

http://www.thechinesecard.com/

(The flashcards based on the textbook)

University of Southern California

Animated Chinese Characters

Xie, Tianwei, Andy Kam and Howard Chen, UC Davis

Characters with animation

Jacob, Mary, UCD

Moran, Patrick, Wake Forest University

Black Dragon Curls Around China's Heart

http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/Black_Dragon_TOC.html

(A serial novel for beginning readers of Chinese The story takes place in China during the Twenty-third Century.)

Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Chinese Online Reading Assistant

http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/chinese/reading/

(Advanced, glossary and sound provided)

Univ of Southern California

Stories of Chinese Idioms

Shaeffer, Marlowe, Annie Yang and Jing-Heng Ma, Chinese Department, Wellesley College)

Learn Chinese Fables by Listening

Chinese Univ of Hong Kong

Cantonese Pronunciation Dictionary

Learning Chinese Translation Online

Automatic Traslating English Web Pages and Text into Chinese

Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK)

Universities, Colleges, Institutes and Schools Offering Chinese, Chinese Language Associations

Language Research, Textbooks, Learning Materials Database

Academica Sinica Classics Database

http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3

(big5 code, searchable)

CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese: Speech Corpus

Language Information Sciences Research Center

Nan Hai Co., Inc., U.S.A.

The Bridge of East and West Culture

Seek Help from Experts

Experts Willing to Share Knowledge of Chinese

Review Articles

Chu, Cecilia, UC Berkeley

Chinese Character Tutor

http://philo.ucdavis.edu/zope/home/txie//learn_online/chchartu.htm

Chu, Cecilia, UC Berkeley

HyperChina

http://philo.ucdavis.edu/~txie/learn_online/hchina.htm

Chu, Cecilia, UC Berkeley

Professional Interactive Chinese

Wang, Jun, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Professional Interactive Chinese

http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/reviews/archives/intchinese.html

Zhang Zhengsheng, SDSU

HyperChinese

http://philo.ucdavis.edu/~txie/learn_online/hyperc.htm

Zhang, Zhengsheng, SDSU

CALL for Chinese: Issues and Practice

http://philo.ucdavis.edu/~txie/learn_online/issues.htm

http://philo.ucdavis.edu/~txie/learn_online/issues.doc

Zheng, Tongtao, University of Tasmania

The Passage to China

Bourgire, Dana Scott and Ronald R Robel

Critical Language Series: Beginning Chinese

http://clp.arizona.edu/cls/chn/

Brandl, Klaus, Qi Yang, and Chris Delucia

InnerTalk: Learning Chinese

http://www.innertalk.com/language_learning_chinese.html

(Tapes and CD)

Ningxia CDT Auto-control Technology Ltd, China

Standard Chinese Course

http://www.cdt.com.cn/scc.htm

Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese

http://languagetapes.com/chinesemandarin.html

(Audio tapes, recommended)

Resources United International

Step into China

Venture Tech, Inc

The Professional Interactive Chinese

http://www.agoralang.com:2410/venturetech.html

Wenlin Institute, Inc

Chinese Studies Web Resources

Hong Kong Univ

Multimedia Project for Teaching and Learning Chinese

(Links to many human languages including Chinese)

International Chinese Culture College (East China Normal University)

Learning Express Inc.,

Follow Me Learning Chinese

OCAC Education Center Online (Taiwan)

Renmin Ribao [People's Daily]

Chinese Lessons for Pre-Schoolers