Useful Websites for Chinese
Listening
Learning
Through Listening
http://www.wellesley.edu/Chinese/Chinese_Fables/title/title_page.html
Learn Chinese idioms by listening to audio files. The website contains
15 Chinese fables with sound files and online exercises. Good for intermediate
and advanced students. However, it does not have a written text for the
sound file, which may be difficult for beginners to understand. Don’t
need to register.
ChinesePod
http://chinesepod.com/
Offers lessons online for all level learners, but you have to register
to use it.
Pronunciation
Pronunciation
http://www.hello-han.com/ch-education/yinjieku/hanziyinjieku-en.php
Basic Chinese syllables pronunciation. Practice pronunciation by listening
to all Chinese syllables. For beginners.
Syllables Pronunciation
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwyQK62tO_U
a video clip showing the mouth movement of pronunciation for Chinese
syllables. For beginners.
Syllables
Pronunciation Animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U72hN_g9pss&feature=related
a video clip of some syllables that are hard for western Chinese learners.
It has an animation and instructions of how to speak Chinese syllables.
Conversation
Daily Conversation
http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/
Some basic Chinese conversational phrases and sentences can be heard.
Very useful daily phrases. There is pinyin for each phrase, but no characters.
For beginners.
Characters
Animation of Stroke
Order
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/azi/page1.htm
It contains the animation of stroke order for most basic Chinese characters(both
simple and traditional are available). For 1st and 2nd year Chinese students.
Flash Cards
http://www.semanda.com/
flash cards for Chinese characters. It has different kind of flash cards
to choose from, and is sorted by categories. Very easy to use. For 1st
and 2nd year Chinese students.
Reading
Chinese
idioms' Stories
http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/Reading/chengyu.htm
Stories of Chinese idioms and proverbs. It has a simple version of the
story behind each idiom, and a question followed by each story. For 3rd
and 4th year Chinese students.
News Articles
http://www.popupchinese.com/tools/newsinchinese
It is mainly for advanced learners, but the best about this website is
that it has pinyin and translation of each word appeared in the article.
You can just put the mouse on the words you don’t know, and it will show
the translation in a small box.
Online Reading of Chinese Books
http://www.baiyun.net/
Online reading of almost all Chinese books. For advanced learners.
Humor Stories
http://zznc.net/sousec/big5/index.html
Humor stories with English translations. For 1st and 2nd Chinese students.
Grammar
Basic Grammars
http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/grammarlist.htm
Explanation of basic grammars. For 1st and 2nd year Chinese students.
Slideshows of
basic grammars
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rsimmon/chingram/
It has examples for each grammar point. For 1st and 2nd year Chinese
students.
Newspapers
China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hqzx/
Xinmin Evening Newspaper
http://xinmin.news365.com.cn/
China Youth Daily
http://www.cyd.com.cn/node/index.htm
Dictionary
WordChamp
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Splash.do
Great website helping students to read foreign websites. Very easy to
use, and no need to register.
Chinese Dictionary
http://zhongwen.com/
One of the best things about this website is that it will give you several
phrases related to the word you look up. For all level learners.
Chinese-English Dictionary
http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm
It offers several links to other Chinese-English dictionary for different
purpose of use.
Cultural Studies
Cultureal
Studies
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/other.html
It has a very detailed description of almost all cultural aspects in
China. It is sorted by category, so it is very easy to use.
Chinese Culture
http://chineseculture.about.com/
A general introduction of Chinese cultures offered by mainly western
websites.
Teaching Materials
MERLOT
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2446
Multimedia Educational resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Very
detailed resources for online teaching of Chinese.
Chinese
Photo Album
http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/vpa/chinese/org_grid1.html
Very fun and interesting website. Learn Chinese culture from all those
pictures!
Haverford College
East Asian Studies at Haverford
and Bryn Mawr
http://www.brynmawr.edu/eastasian/
Patten
Website for 2nd year Chinese students(on-campus only)
http://www.haverford.edu:8080/chinese/chinese_patterns