Resources
Resources
Online Chinese Learning and Culture Resources
Podcasts
Many situation-based conversation lessons:
http://www.publicchinese.com/podcast/blog-home.action?blogId=2
Everyday life in China:
www.chinesepod.com
Chinese Learning and Culture Blogs
Wen Hao's Chinese Learning Blog:
http://my.opera.com/learnchinese/blog/
The Qi Blogs:
http://qi-journal.com/culture.asp
Chinese Pronunciation and Characters
How to pronounce Pinyin and tones:
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
Many links for learning to read and write Chinese:
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
Read an learn about everyday life
http://www.minmm.com/minc/reading/
Asia Culture and Society
Virtual tours of famous museums and cultural sites:
http://www.minmm.com/minc/vtour/
Maps and geographic resources:
http://www.minmm.com/minc/vtour/index.php?id=1
Chinese Literature in Comic Book Form:
http://www.china-on-site.com/comicindex.php
Confucius
Basic moral terminology of Confucius, with the Chinese characters:
http://www.friesian.com/confuci.htm
The life and work of the Chinese philosopher and educator, Confucius:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/
Confucius Quotes:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Confucius/
Confucius Institutes in the World
University of Western Australia, Australia.
British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada.
University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Stockholm University, Sweden.
United States:
- China Institute.
- Kansas University.
- Michigan State University.
- San Francisco State University.
- University of Maryland.
Interactive Tools
Before You Know It is a language-learning software. It is effective at
teaching people words and phrases like index cards. You will need to download
the free software.
http://www.byki.com/reply_w_3.pl?fi=SYIt9427
Wordchamp allows you to create your own flashcards, seeing graphs of your
progress, and interacting with users. You can also practice vocabulary, read
foreign websites and manage your classes.
http://wordchamp.com/lingua2/Splash.do
This site provides tools to assist people in learning and using the
beautiful Chinese language, including Chinese flashcards, adding pinyin to
Chinese text, Romanization Converter, Chinese Text Annotator, Learning to
Draw Chinese Characters, Chinese Encoding Converter, and many more tools.
http://www.mandarintools.com/
On the Chinese tools site you can
paste a
Chinese text and get the pinyin pronunciation of all the characters,
write
pinyin with tone marks,
convert
a Chinese text from traditional to simplified characters and vice versa,
get a
personalized Chinese painting with your own Chinese name on it, and much more.
http://www.chinese-tools.com/
A bilingual Chinese-English annotation and translation system. Includes a simple and an advanced interface:
http://www.adsotrans.com/
Note: These are resources that we think are useful for learning Chinese language and culture, are made available to you. These are third party sites and we can not verify their accuracy.
