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Link to links
Mandarin 123

Dictionaries -- USC Chinese Language Program

zhongwen.com

Lakeside Middle School

Historty Overview

President Barack Obama
Back to School Event Video

TCI History Alive!

The Medieval World and Beyond Internet Connectiions

TCI History Alive!

The Ancient World

More Resources

Grammar

Major Sentence Patterns

China Links

Chinese Search Engines

Traditional Chinese Games



USEFUL WEBSITE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING CHINESE

1. Culture, business Chinese, Hanzi lessons and strokes:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/treasure page.htm

2. All kinds of topics for listening and downloading to ipod:

www.chinesepod.com

3. To convert your pinyin with tone marks:

http://www.foolsworkshop.com/ptou/index.html

4. Chinese songs:

http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/perry/chinesesongs/children/home.htm

5. Chinese pop rock music:

http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/perry/chinesesongs/popular/home.htm

6. Chinese music for everyone:

http://www.cssa.org.uk/music/

7. Chinese New Year and other holidays:

http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html; http://www.chinatour.com/countryinfo/festival.htm

8. How to get a Chinese name:

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

9. Chinese related links:

http://lrrc3.sas.upenn.edu/chinese/links/relatedlinks2.htm

10. Frequently asked Chinese characters/words/greetings:

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/character/bls_c_special.htm

11. Chinese learning materials and links to other web sites:

Univ. of California at Davis ; Learning Chinese Online

12. All Online Chinese Learning Resources you need

http://www.saynihao.org/products.htm

13. Listening to or Reading Online News in Chinese

Voice of America (audio only)
Voice of America (text only)
Radio Canada International (text and audio)
BBC Read or listen to current news.

14. Chinese Calligraphy:

Calligraphy of the masters
Asiawind Art Gallery
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Calligraphy

15. Chinese Software and Online Tools

TwinBridge Chinese Partener ™Ô‹´
NJStar “ì‹É¯
Richwin
Chinese Star ’†•¶”V¯

Chinese Online Tools

Writing Chinese Under Windows 2000 Professional/XP
Zhongwen.com ; View Chinese Web Documents Without a Chinese System
16. Online Chinese dictionaries:

More online Chinese dictionaries
http://www.clavisinica.com

17. Map of China and USA: http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/maps/chinese_map.html

18. Resources for teaching and learning Chinese language:
http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html#maps

19. Real Chinese: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/

20. Language guide: http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/

21. Conversational Chinese online: http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm

22. Travel in China: http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/traveling.html

23. Travel in China: City guide: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/

24. Free Chinese lessons online: http://www.freechineselessons.com/lesson

25. Chinese dining: http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/dining.html

26. Chinese treasure box: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/treasure_page.htm

27. Chinese character writing related website:

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

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/character.htm

http://www.chinesehorizon.com/freeDemo.cfm

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/azi/page1.htm

28. Resources for teaching and learning Chinese: http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html

29. Chinese voices projects: http://www.clavisinica.com/CVP/voices.html

30. Animated Hanzi: http://lost-theory.org/ocrat/chargif/
31. Animated Hanzi: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/character_page.html
32. Animated Hanzi: http://www.eon.com.hk/estroke/
33. Animated Hanzi: http://www.cchar.com/cwmaster/english-getchar.php
34. Animated Hanzi: http://lost-theory.org/ocrat/chargif/anychar.html

35. Business Chinese for all levels: http://www.minmm.com/minc/classes.php

36. Chinese annotation tool: pinyin (from Hanzi) annotator with tones
and English definition.

This tool makes learning to read Chinese easier by automatically
marking up the words in a simplified Chinese text with their
pronunciations in pinyin and dictionary definitions:

http://www.longjiang.dreamhosters.com/pinyin/index.php

37. Map quiz online: http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/chinaquiz.html

38. Electronic Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries:
http://www.xuezhongwen.net/chindict/chindict.php

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

40.www.clef.org.cn

41.huayuworld.org

42.www.bjhuayu.cn

43.www.confuciusinstitute.net

44.www.semanda.com/flashcards

45.www.pinyinpractice.com

46.www.unitedstreaming.com

47.www.studychinese.com

48.www.hwjyw.com (teaching demo, methods, common knowledge, music,
etc.)

49.www.ywtd.com.cn

50.www.hwjyw.com

51.edu.qw369.com

52.www.noeye.com

53.www.hanyuwang.com.cn

54.www.verycd.com

55.www.enchantedlearning.com

56.www.chinabooks.com

57.www.chinasport.com

58.www.linese.com

59.www.masterchinese.com

60.http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/annotation.html
Online Chinese Language Resources



General Chinese Language Tools and Language Learning Clearinghouses

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

Tim Xie’s (California State University at Long Beach) Learning Chinese
Online Page: http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm

Marjorie Chan’s (Ohio State University) ChinaLinks: http://chinalinks.osu.edu/

Mandarin Tools: http://www.mandarintools.com/

Clavis Sinica Free Chinese Learning Resources http://www.clavisinica.com/resources.html

Zhongwen.com: http://www.zhongwen.com



Online Chinese Reading Tools

Rikai.com: http://www.rikai.com/perl/HomePage.pl?Language=Zh

Adsotrans (Pop-Up Chinese): http://popupchinese.com/tools/adso

Wordchamp: http://www.wordchamp.com (free account required for access)

Popjisyo: http://www.popjisyo.com (choose Chinese à English input)



Computer Chinese Installation Instructions

Chinese IME (Input Method Editor) Installation Instructions:

Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B91AC197-FFA7-45A7-B1E1-C3457E1B0C1F&displaylang=EN

Detailed, user-friendly instructions on how to install the Chinese IME
on a PC:

http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/asianlanguageinstallation_XP.html

“Pinyinput” Download and Installation Instructions:

http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=13005

Chinese on Macintosh Computers by Yale University: http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/



Online Chinese Input Systems (in case your Chinese IME gets
uninstalled from your computer, or if you’re using a computer that is
not your own)

Chinese Tools Online IME: http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/ime.html

Purple Culture Online IME: http://www.purpleculture.net/Online-Chinese-Input-System.asp

Seven Forks Online IME (several input methods): http://www.sevenforks.com



Free Chinese Fonts

Chinese Fonts from the Insitut für Sinologie, Heidelburg University,
Germany: http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/edv/sinopc/chinese_fonts.htm



Instructions on Using iPhone/iPod Touch to Write SMS Messages or
Emails in Chinese

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/05/chinese-handwriting-functionality-added-to-iphone-firmware.ars



Pinyin and Tone Practice Sites

Pinyin.info (by Mark Swofford): http://www.pinyin.info/ (Blog:
http://pinyin.info/news/)

Introduction to Pinyin: http://www.newconceptmandarin.com/support/Intro_Pinyin.asp

http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/chinese/mhu/hu101/101list.html

http://www.instantspeakchinese.com/pinyin/index.cfm

http://www.pinyinpractice.com/initials.htm

http://tool.httpcn.com/Zi/YinJie_nv/

Tone practice: http://www.shufawest.us/language/tonedrill.html

Pinyin rules: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~pinyin/rules.htm



Character Practice Sites

Dragonwise: http://www.dragonwise.hku.hk/dragon2/schools/archives/charmake.php

California State University Chinese Character Games:
http://www.csulb.edu/web/labs/langlabs/builder/grab/chinese/pcr.html

Traditional and simplified character comparison games and activities:
http://www.language.berkeley.edu/fanjian/start.html

USC Chinese character practice: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/index.html

http://www.learnchineseez.com/read-write/index.php

Semanda Free Vocabulary Flashcards: http://www.semanda.com/

Skritter (pay site, first two weeks of account use free): http://www.skritter.com/



Listening/Speaking Activities and Practice

Kenyon College Video Clips of Survival Chinese

http://personal.kenyon.edu/bai/vcsc.htm

Wellesley College Listening Activities: http://www.wellesley.edu/Chinese/Listening/contents.html

Rutgers University Multimedia Chinese Teaching System

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

Oxford University Chinese Multimedia

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/index.html



Seattle Chinese Restaurant Sites with Online Chinese Menus (their food
is also recommended by ºþÅÏÖÐѧÖÐÎÄÀÏʦ£¡)

Lao Sichuan in the Seattle International District, Website
http://sichuan.cwok.com/index.html

Chiang’s Gourmet in Seattle Lake City, Website http://www.chiangsgourmet.com/



Chinese Online Essays and Reading Materials
EChineseLearning Newsletter: http://echineselearning.com/newsletter/

Learning Chinese Online Reading Materials http://liwin.com/annotated/generate_list.php

Clavis Sinica Free Chinese Learning Resources http://www.clavisinica.com/resources.html

University of Iowa Chinese Reading World http://www.uiowa.edu/~chnsrdng/



Online Dictionaries

Chinese-Tools: http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/dictionary.html

Pristine Lexicon: http://www.pristine.com.tw/lexicon.php

Zdic: http://www.zdic.net/

MDBG: http://www.xuezhongwen.net/

NCiku: http://www.nciku.com/

Zhongwen.com: http://zhongwen.com/

Purple Chinese: http://www.purpleculture.net/Chinese-English-Word-Dictionary.asp

Popjisyo: http://www.popjisyo.com



Text Converters and Annotation Tools

Character-to-Pinyin Converters

http://www.purpleculture.net/Chinese-Character-Pinyin-Converter-Online.asp



Pinyin Annotator

http://www.annotator.dragonresearch.org/

http://www.nightly.annotator.dragonresearch.org/ (Beta version with
more features, but works only in the Mozilla Firebox browser)



Pinyin-with-Tones Input Systems

Pinyin Textfield: http://www.geocities.com/shixilun/pinyintextfield.html

Pinyin to Unicode Conversion: http://www.foolsworkshop.com/ptou/



Simplified/Traditional Character Converters

http://www.purpleculture.net/Traditional-Simplified-Chinese-Converter.asp



San Diego State University Chinese Annotation Tool

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~chinese/annotate.html



General Chinese Culture Resources

Chinasite (maintained by Huang Weiqing): http://www.chinasite.com/

About.com’s Chinese Culture (maintained by Jun Shan): http://chineseculture.about.com

Chinese-Speaking Regions http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/countries_by_languages.htm

Chinese New Year http://www.history.com/content/chinesenewyear/video



Educational Sites on Chinese Culture

Patricia Ebrey’s (University of Washington) “A Visual Sourcebook of
Chinese Culture”:

http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/

Paul Halsall’s (Brooklyn College) Chinese Culture course site:
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/index.html

Wu Sue-mei’s (Carnegie Mellon University) “The Wedding Banquet” site
on Chinese wedding customs: http://ml2.hss.cmu.edu/courses/suemei/banquet/banquet.html



Wikipedia on Chinese Festivals

Chinese New Year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

Mid-Autumn Festival: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

...and of course many more resources both in Chinese and English on
Wikipedia on a myriad of topics related to Chinese culture.