Web Sites Useful for Teaching and Learning Chinese Language.doc

Useful Web Sites for Teaching and Learning ChineseCollected by Tianwei XieCalifornia State University, Long BeachJune 2001This 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. ContentsIntroduction to the Chinese Language3Learning Pronunciation4Learning Conversations6Discussion and Chat8Learning Characters8Learning Grammar11Reading Materials12Listening14On-line Dictionaries15Learning Chinese Translation Online17Testing Your Chinese17Links for Chinese Studies18Universities, Colleges, Institutes and Schools Offering Chinese, Chinese Language Associations19Language Research, Textbooks, Learning Materials Database20Chinese Bookstores22Search Engines24Seek Help from Experts25Learners Experience25CD Titles and other multimedia programs for Learning Chinese25Review Articles26Learning Chinese CD ROMs, tapes and software27Study Abroad30Other Resources31Introduction to the Chinese Language How many people speak Chinese?/homepages/fergab/Learn.htmMandarin Chinese Outpost/Mandarin Chinese Profile /profiles/profm02.htmO Chinese Language: Questions & Answers/info/faq.htmlOnline Chinese Schools C /(An on-line learning school. Free for teachers. $16 for six months for students) Online College of Chinese Language /Speaking-C /en/en_index.asp(All Chinese courses of this website are authorized by the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. This site can be best viewed in IE4.0 or above with a screen display 800*600. )Learning Pronunciation Bell Lab Chinese Text-to-Speech Synthecizer (big5)/project/tts/mandarin.html (Type Chinese characters or pinyin, sound will be generated automatically) Bell-labBell Lab Chinese Text-to-Speech Synthecizer (gb) /project/tts/mandarin-gb.htmlBranner, David PragerGuide to Gwoyeu Romatzyh /yuenren/Romatzyh.htmlChinaS Learn Pinyin /learn/course/win_one1.htm Harvard Univ.Chinese Pronunciation Guide/pinyin/Hill, Harold C.Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Yale: Comparative Romanization /hhill/tlit.htmlHill, Harold C.Zhuyin Fuhao BPMF Transliteration/hhill/bpmf.html Li, Sanpao, California State University at Long Beach Pinyin Master/sanpaoli/pym/pym.htmMoran, Patrick Patrick Morans drawing to teach z, c, s, zh, ch, sh, r, j, q, x /moran/z_GIF_images/Difficult_Sounds.gif Peterson, EricChinese Romanization Converter (Pinyin-Wade Giles-BoPoMoFo)/eepeter/pytable.html(This tool will not convert characters to pinyin. It will also not convert pinyin to characters. It onlyworks between different Romanizations and Zhuyin Fuhao.) Sciban, Shu-ning and Xiao-jie Yang, Univ. of CalgaryFayinhttp:/www.uti.ca/fayin.htm SChinese Pinyin /en/en_script/elogin/login.asp?ClassID=3000(Free registration. Fundamental course for beginners to grasp the key to the Chinese pronunciation by learning its phonetic system.) The City Univ. of Hong KongLISRC Computerized System for Learning Pinyin.hk/pinyin/default.htmUniv. of IowaPractice Your Pinyin /chinese/pinyin/Warmington, RichardGR Junction.au/richwarm/gr/gr.htm#akaLearning Conversations A Brief Introduction to Shanghai huahttp:/plaza27.mbn.or.jp/yilingmu/zhanhe/index.html (In Japanese) Bai, Jianhua, Kenyon CollegeVideo Clips of Survival Chinese /people/bai/vcsc.htmOCAC TaiwanMandarin Classroom .tw/whole4.html(all levels) Singapore Promote Mandarin CouncilBasic Business Mandarin Chinese .sg/spkmandarin/conversation/conversation.htm(Texts and sound, intermediate) SpeakingCForeigners in China /en/en_script/elogin/login.asp?ClassID=1006(Free registration. This course provides a quick solution for foreigners who are going to travel, work or live in china to grasp the most commonly used spoken Chinese.) Xie, TianweiConversational Mandarin Chinese Online(Level I, big5 version)/txie/ccol/content.htm (Fifteen Units in Pinyin, English, Characters and Exercises with sound) Xie, Tianwei. Translated by Gwon, Young JuneConversational Mandarin Chinese Online (Level I) for Korean speakers/cmcokr/learn/learn.htmDiscussion and Chat Harbaugh, Rick Chat in Pinyin /chat.htm (Students can chat here in Pinyin). Huang, Kaibo & Huizhen Wu Chinese Learners Chat Room/chinese/chat.htm (allow gb codes) Xie, Tianwei Voice Discussion Board/txie/voiceforum.htm(This voice forum will allow you to record and post your message to the discussion board. You can also send voice e-mail. No need to download software.) Learning Characters ChineseO learning characters/resources/search_word/search_word.php?pd=1(Search by Pinyin)/resources/search_word/search_word.php?pd=2(Search by English)/newword/index.php(Search by textbooks) Harbaugh, RickChinese Characters: Questions and Answers /faq.htm Moran, Patrick Patrick Morans character practice sheets for downloading/moran/callig.html OAnimated Chinese Characters /ocrat/chargif/(Stroke orders are animated, covers Characters in PCR Book I) Peterson, ErikChinese Character Flashcards /flashcard.htmlSChinese Characters /en/en_script/elogin/login.asp?ClassID=1007(Free registration. Fundamental course for beginners to learn the writing, structural characteristics,stroke order, and development history of Chinese characters.) Taylor, Insup and M. Martin Taylor (Amsterdam: John Benjamins)/Literacy_Book (A Book about Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese) University of Iowa StudentsChinese Flashcards2001/(The flashcards based on the textbook) University of Southern California Animated Chinese Characters/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/character_page.html(For users of the textbook Interactive Chinese) University. of VirginiaLearning Chinese Characters/cll/chinese/index.html(For users of the textbook Interactive Chinese ) Wang, YouqinThe most commonly used 500 characters big5 version /faculty/ywang/500Fhtml.htmlThe most commonly used 500 characters GB version/faculty/ywang/500Shtml.htmlXie, Tianwei, Andy Kam and Howard Chen, UC DavisCharacters with animation1998 (Big 5 version)/txie/azi/page1.htm(GB version) /txie/azi/page2.htm Xie, TianweiChinese Calligraphy Page1998/txie/calligraphy/calligraphy.htm Yin, Jinghua Writing Sheets for Practical Chinese Reader Character /chinese/characte.htm(pdf files) Learning Grammar Jacob, Mary, UCD /mjacob/supp.htmPractical Chinese Reader: supplementary teaching materials Xie, Tianwei Practical Chinese Reader: Self-Tests/txie/PCRopen/selftest.htm(For PCR textbook users, elementary) Reading Materials CEBIS (Chinese-European-Business-Information Server)Reading Pagehttp:/www.cebis.de/zww/read/1.html ChineseO Stories of Proverbs /resources/read/chengyu.phpEast Asian Collection Chinese Studies WWW Virtual Library .au/collections/asian/chihp.html Harbaugh, Rick Chinese Classics Reading/gudian.htm (Lao Zi, Confucius and Sun Zi with online dictionary) Moran, Patrick, Wake Forest University. Black Dragon Curls Around Chinas Heart/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/chinese/reading/(Advanced, glossary and sound provided) Univ. of Southern California Stories of Chinese Idioms/dept/ealc/chinese/Reading/chengyu.htm#2 Univ. of Southern California Humor Stories /dept/ealc/chinese/Reading/humor.htm Univ. of Southern California Chinese Myths /dept/ealc/chinese/Reading/myth1.htmUniv. of Southern California Progressive Readings/dept/ealc/chinese/Level/1.htm University of VirginiaChinese Reading World/cll/chinese_reading/Listening CanThink Web Radio on Demand (Taiwan) .tw/Chinese Internet TV /internettv/ (In Chinese gb) Chinese Radios and TV broadcasts /yunbing/rad.html (In Chinese) Hu, Mingliang Video Exercises /academics/departments/chinese/mhu/videos2/index/index.htmlShaeffer, Marlowe, Annie Yang and Jing-Heng Ma, Chinese Department, Wellesley College) Learn Chinese Fables by Listening /Chinese/Chinese_Fables/title/title_page.html(Integrated Materials for Intermediate and Advanced Students)Shea, Marilyn Chinese Experiences /ChineseFrame/chineseframeset.html (Listen to Chinese words and sentences) WCETV/ (The Internet Broadcast Channel) WChinese-Language Radio Broadcasts /bamboo/chinese/radio.html Xie, TianweiLearn Chinese using Voice of America /txie/listen/voa.htm(For advanced learners) On-line Dictionaries Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong Cantonese Pronunciation Dictionary .hk/Lexis/Canton/ (Characters can be searched. Cantonese pronunciation can be heard and cross referenced) Harbaugh, Rick Chinese Character Genealogy (Online Chinese Dictionary)/(The best online Chinese dictionary providing pronunciation and meaning of the phrases, the history of Chinese characters. Needs big5 supported Chinese system) Harbaugh, Rick Web-based Chinese Character Dictionaries /zi.htm (Searchable. Type a character in Big5 code and you will find it from various onlinedictionaries.) ok88 company English-Chinese Dictionary On-line /go/svc/ecdict.html (Produces gif files for characters) Peterson, ErikChinese Annotation Tool/annotate.html(This tool makes learning to read Chinese easier by automatically marking up the words in a Chinese text with their pronunciations and dictionary definitions.) Peterson, ErikChinese Character Dictionary /worddict.htmlWarmington, Richard CEL (Chinese-English Lookup) .au/richwarm/cel/cel.htm(An online dictionary) Learning Chinese Translation Online Automatic Traslating English Web Pages and Text into Chinese /Translating the Internet /(Request automatic translation through email) TranStar /transtar/english/edefault.aspYe, ZinanLearning Chinese Translation /zinanye/homepage.htm Testing Your Chinese CAL Mandarin Chinese Proficiency Test (CPT) /cal/db/flt/Mandarin.htmCAL Cantonese Proficiency Test /cal/db/flt/Cantones.htmHanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) http:/hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/hsk/hsk-about.htmlHanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK), The Chinese Proficieny Test /hsk1.htm (gb code) HSK in Canada http:/www.cic.sfu.ca/hsk/hsk.htmlHSK in Michigan /asian/chinese/hsk.html Links for Chinese Studies Chan, MarjorieChinaLinks /deall/chan.9/c-links.htm#C-S(The most recommended page for Chinese Studies) Harbaugh, Rick Chinese Discussion Board /wwwboard/wwwboard.html (If you have any questions related to learning Chinese, this is the place to ask) Universities, Colleges, Institutes and Schools Offering Chinese, Chinese Language Associations China Institute / Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools /quick/class.htmChinese Language Teachers Association /clta/new.htmChinese School Association in the United States /Cornell University FALCON intensive study of Chinese/falcon/ French Chinese Language Teachers Association http:/escom2.msh-paris.fr/afpcNational Council of Associations of Chinese Language Schools /ncacls/index.htm(Links to Associations of Chinese Schools) Xie, TianweiChinese Programs at Universities and Colleges /txie/programs.htm Xie, TianweiChinese Schools /txie/schools.htm Language Research, Textbooks, Learning Materials Database Academica Sinica Classics Database .tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3 (big5 code, searchable) CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese: Speech Corpus /ldc/catalog/html/package/CH_man.htmlChinese Classics /Broadway/Balcony/9598/(big5 codes, searchable) CNKI /(Chinese Academic Journal Database, searchable) Language Information Sciences Research Center Synchronous Corps.hk/livac/default.htm Marilyn SheaA database of Chinese vocabulary /China/database.htmlRosetta Project /txie/(Building a near permanent archive of 1000 languages) Shandong Univ.Complete Collection in Four Treasuries Electronic Library/skqs/skgb.html(gb codes) Taiwan Today .tw/tcsl/Wwwcai/Twtoday/index%20program.htm(Intermediate Chinese) UCLA language teaching materials database / (This web site provides information about teaching materials for the less commonly taught languages, institutions where instruction in these languages can be obtained, and profiles which provide socio-linguistic and geographical information) Univ. of Hawaii Multimedia Software for Learning Chinese /flmedia/languages/chinese.htmlZhang, ZhengshengIntegrated Chinese, Level 1 Digitized text /dept/chinese/materials.html#L1textZhang, Zhengsheng Lab assignments /dept/chinese/materials.html#L1text Zhang, Zhengsheng Integrated Chinese, Level 2 Digitized text/dept/chinese/materials.html#L2textChinese Bookstores Asian Rare Books /arbs/Cheng & Tsui Company Chinese Collection /C/(Chinese Children Books, Videos, Audio and computer CDs, and other material for libraries, ESL Programs, and government institutions for teaching Chinese Culture and Language) China Books Periodicals, Inc. /Chine