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Pentagram Chinese Language Institute
http://www.pentagram-chinese.com
Firstly started by professional experts from Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language area, Pentagram Chinese Language Institute attracts a group of teachers from famous universities who devote themselves into this industry.
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Mandarin Language : Video Tutorials (cn)
http://www.videojug.com/tag/mandarin
Mandarin Language : Video Tutorials
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Baidu : Chinese Language Search Engine
http://www.baidu.cn/
Baidu : Chinese Language Search Engine
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Linese.com
http://www.linese.com
Fun and Easy Language and Cultural Resources in Audios and Videos plus One-on-one Lessons with Native Chinese Teachers.
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nciku - Handwriting Recognition Tool (cn)
http://www.nciku.com
nciku is a free online English-Chinese/Chinese-English dictionary with strong content, innovative features and expanding knowledge that is uniquely evolving.
HANDWRITING RECOGNITION TOOL
For all foreigners starting to learn Chinese, the characters are always a confusing part. nciku developed an innovative technology to let you find Chinese characters simply by drawing.
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Chinese for Kids
http://www.gigglepotz.com/china.htm
Chinese for Kids is a learning program for kids from 2-8.
It offers Preschoolers/Elementary students, an easy and enjoyable range of learning materials for the study of the Chinese language.
It is an integrated teaching approach and includes reading, writing, and speaking activities. Puppets, music, and arts and craft activities ensure an enjoyable learning experience.
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Learn Chinese Material (cn)
http://culture.zymq.com/Learn_Chinese/index.htm
Learn Chinese characters by understanding their origins and interconnections
Multimedia teach how to write and speak Chinese. It utilizes pictures and audio to make your chinese learning experience an easy task.
Commercial company
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Learn Chinese (cn)
http://www.mqzy.com
Learn chinese in china and learn chinese online, video, cd, book and DVD.
Learning Chinese Video | Chinese Sentence | Free Lesson | HSK | Dictionary | Base of Chinese | Base of Culture | Measurement Tool
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BBC Radio in Chinese (cn)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/
BBC Radio in Chinese
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Wikijunior Languages/Chinese
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_Languages/Chinese
Wikijunior Languages/Chinese
From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection
Free online textbook
| What writing system(s) does this language use? | How many people speak this language? | Where is this language spoken? | What is the history of this language? | Who are some famous authors or poets in this language? | What are some basic words in this language that I can learn? | What is a simple song/poem/story that I can learn in this language? |
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Google Search Engine : Chinese (Traditional) (cn)
http://www.google.com/intl/zh-TW/
Google Search Engine : Chinese (Traditional) Front Page
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Google Search Engine: Chinese (Simplified) (cn)
http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/
Google Search Engine: Chinese (Simplified) Front Page
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Chinese Dictionary Tools and Resources
http://www.pzlabs.com/better/
Chinese Dictionary Tools and Resources
| Xiaoma Cidian | AdsoTrans | Pleco (pronounced "PLEE-KOH") | KingSoft Chinese-English Dictionary | Yahoo! Dictionary (Taiwan) | Kaide's English-Chinese Dictionary | English-Chinese Medical Dictionary | Japanese and Chinese Pop-up Hints! | MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary | HanDict and HanConv | Zhongwen | CCDICT at China Language | Chinese-English Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon) | English-Chinese Online Dictionary (TigerNT, Beijing) | English-Chinese Dictionary (ok88.com) | English-Chinese Dictionary (lexiconer.com) | English-Chinese Dictionary (chinapage.com) | English-Chinese Dictionary (sunrain.net) | English-Chinese Dictionary for Palm OS (absoluteword.com) | Japanese-English-Chinese Dictionary (language-museum.com) | Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage (Chinese Univerisity of Hong Kong) | Ocrat Chinese Pages: Animated Chinese Characters (under construction now) | On-line Chinese Tools (MandarinTools.com) | Sino-Tibetan Languages (yourdictionary.com) | Yinghan English-Chinese Dictionary For Palm OS (palmGear.com) |
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InstantSpeak Chinese
http://tinyurl.com/qsbzv
InstantSpeak Chinese
Online course for learning Chinese that contains over 100 lessons, 2500 of the most frequently used vocabulary and phrases and an audio flash card system.
Each item has two different speeds of audio playback. Software for purchase online but with free trial period.
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Study Chinese Abroad in Tianjin, China (cn)
http://www.freewebs.com/chinanorth
Study Chinese Abroad in Tianjin, China
Chinese language programs for students to gain proficiency in Chinese. Participants range from beginner to the advanced. Elective courses like Kungfu, Chinese painting, calligraphy, traditional musical instruments, Beijing opera, etc. are also available.
International Student Office of College of International Education will help you with application and admission, visa, registration, course selection, housing, and residence formalities in China.
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English-Chinese Vocabulary Quizzes (cn)
http://iteslj.org/v/c/
English-Chinese Vocabulary Quizzes
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China Language Links at DMOZ
http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/Foreign_Languages/Chinese/
China Language Links at DMOZ
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Hanzi Explorer (commercial product)
http://www.globechinese.com
Hanzi Explorer is a powerful and intelligent four steps system for learning Chinese.
Every Chinese character is derived from its etymology or memory skills to color components and animated in big size stroke by stroke. These will dramatically enhance your memory efficiency. All are spoken by a FAMOUS CHINESE NATIONAL BROADCAST ANNOUNCER.
Making your own color flashcards by means of Hanzi Explorer will allow of studying Hanzi anytime, anywhere.
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Learn Chinese - Offers Many Chinese Learning Material
http://learn_chinese.ckungfu.com/
Min Multimedia teach how to write and speak Chinese. It utilizes pictures and audio to make your chinese learning experience an easy task.
Beginners | One Sentence A Day | Online Lesson | HSK | Reference Book | Base of Chinese | Base of Culture | Measurement Tool for Conversions |
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Chinese Practice (cn)
http://chinese.yuehan.net/
Free program (to download) to help you learn Chinese.
Offers text-to-speech and/or recorded voice, editing lessons, skins, vocabulary builder, unique Brain Flash feature, talking Chinese-English-pinyin dictionary and Chinese text reader.br> Chinese Practice will not teach you Chinese, it's a program meant to accompany your study at a school. When you come home from class, create new lesson and write down new words and phrases. First practise the last lesson, then open couple of most recent lessons, from time to time open and practise all lessons. Use different modes ?let the program display only chinese terms while you translate into your language or vice versa, or just hear the computer read the terms and repeat it.
Highly recommended thing to do is to print out list of Chinese phrases, carry it with you and try to read it everytime you have a free minute.
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List of Chinese Search Engines at Colossus (cn)
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/China.html
List of Chinese Search Engines at Colossus
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NJStar Chinese Word Processor
http://www.njstar.com/
NJStar Chinese Word Processor
A Windows version word processor software, which is designed for both Chinese and English languages. It is also an ideal tool for Chinese learning and teaching with powerful dictionary functions.
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Simplified Chinese - Teacher (shareware)
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?20500000038399
Chinese Teacher (shareware)
It contains Chinese Phonetic Symbols, Chinese Reading, Spoken Chinese, Chinese Listening, Vocabulary Training, Numbers, Chinese Surnames, Typing Chinese Characters, Read With Me, Find Out The Correct Setencem, Translation Training, Break Reminder and Password Manager.
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Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia in Chinese (cn)
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia in Chinese
Wikipedia is the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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Chinese Language, Wushu, Traditional Musical Instruments
http://www.tjut.edu.cn:82/gjjy
The College of International Education at TUT is authorized by the Education Ministry of China to offer Chinese language programs that enable international students to gain proficiency in the Chinese language.
Participants have ranged from the beginners to the advanced, who need a strong foundation in the language for various careers throughout the world, who are interested in Chinese culture, or who simply intend to live and travel in China.
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Egochinese : software to help you learn Chinese.
http://www.itcooker.com/egochinese/
Egochinese : software to help you learn Chinese.
Egochinese is used as a guide of oral Chinese for travelers and those whose mother language is English but want to exchange ideas with Chinese. Chinese words were developed from ideograph, and continuous endeavor is required to completely understand and use them freely, but less work is needed to exchange ideas in daily life.
Chinese-English interreference and the corresponding Chinese Pinyin as well as standard Chinese pronunciation are provided to facilitate the learners practicing reading and speaking Chinese repeatedly.
Not free
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Software to help learning chinese characters
http://www.lchinese.com
Software to help learning chinese characters
Quizzes based on a dictionary containing 16,000 characters
There is a trial version to download .. but you need to pay for the full version.
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On-line Chinese Tools
http://www.mandarintools.com/
On-line Chinese Tools
These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language. From the novice Chinese language student to the advanced programmer, I hope there is something here for everyone. Rather than being a Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese. Please check out the DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant, Character Flashcards, the Chinese/English dictionary, the Chinese Namer, and the Western/Chinese Calendar Converter.
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Learning Chinese mandarin language study & resources (cn)
http://www.languages-cd.com
Learning Chinese Language | [Mandarin | Zhongwen | Putonghua | Guoyu | CD Library | Download Fonts | Type P?y? | Chinese links | Suggested Post | Student Guarantee | Flashcards | Information | CD Snippets | 32 Important Words | Free Bonus CD |
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Learning Chinese Online
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online1.htm
Learning Chinese Online
| Online Schools | Introduction | Pronunciation | Conversation | Characters | Grammar | Reading | Listening | Dictionaries | Translation | Testing | Chinese programs | Learning Materials | Search Database | Bookstores | Experiences | CD Title Reviews | Study in China | Tools for Teachers |
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Learn Chinese
http://www.language-chinese.net/
LEARN CHINESE 2.32. It focuses on studying spoken Chinese from which you also can learn Chinese character, Pinyin and some basic knowledge about China.
It includes about 800 sentences, 60 dialogues, style of writing about 500 characters, 1200 words and phases etc. LEARN CHINESE 2.32 is not only an education program but also a tool.
It's suitable to every Chinese study people esp. for who have got some experiences.Features: 1. Words in it are based on 'Standardized Levels of Chinese Vocabulary'. 2. Mandarin in LEARN CHINESE 2.32 is read by man without any voice engine. LEARN CHINESE 2.32 is about 30MB, but to download and use it is quite worth.There's no conflict between Windows Update File to this version of Learn Chinese any more.
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Chinese Character Pronunciations
http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/reaf/
Chinese Character Pronunciations
Input (copy-and-paste) any Chinese text and obtain the transliterated pronunciation of each Chinese character. Follow links to online Chinese magazines and use this application to lookup pronunciations of unfamiliar words.
This provides students with an excellent way of providing pronunciations of any word they may come across in a chinese language magazine, text, web site, e-mail or book.
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Study Mandarin Using Voice of America
http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/voa/
Study Mandarin Using Voice of America
Are you learning intermediate-level Mandarin? Listen to sound clips from recent VOA newscasts while viewing the corresponding Chinese characters, pinyin pronunciations, and vocabulary lists with word definitions. Updated weekly.
The Voice of America (VOA) is a shortwave radio station that broadcasts news in many languages to countries around the world. Some of their newscasts are also available as sound files on their web site: these are provided in AU, WAV, or RealAudio form and are updated daily.
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Chinese language & Culture
http://www.philsch.k12.pa.us/offices/imedia/chinese/chinese.htm
Chinese language & Culture
Collection of lessons with audio support at the beginning followed by personal introductions and moving through more complex sentence structure and discussions.
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Chinese Language Information Page
http://www.webcom.com/~bamboo/chinese/chinese.html
Chinese Language Information Page
| Viewing and Listening to Chinese on the WWW | Study Chinese Language: Courses | Links to Chinese Language Related FTP Sites | Sources of Chinese Text Files | Chinese Educational Resources | Scholarly and Linguistic Resources on Chinese | Resources for East Asiatic Librarianship | Information about Programming Chinese-Language Software | Chinese-Language Radio Broadcasts |
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Mandarin as a 2nd Language Course (cn)
http://www.msllearningcenter.com
More and more professionals from universities, government and private enterprise are becoming involved in China. At MSL Learning Center, we understand these needs, so we have developed our 10-lesson courses with an aim to introduce such professionals with interests in China-related projects to Mandarin (or Putonghua as the language is known in Chinese) Chinese communication skills and cultural proficiency, so that they can operate effectively in their spheres of professional interest.
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Test Your Chinese (cn)
http://eleaston.com/chinese.html#qz
Test Your Chinese
Listen & Speak | Pronunciation | Read & Write | Literature | Dictionaries | The Language Classroom | Distance Education |
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Chinese links from Jim Becker (cn)
http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html
Chinese / China links from Jim Becker
Here you will find lots of sites that can be helpful for you for learning more about China and the Chinese language and culture.
Websites for learning Chinese Grammar | Learning Chinese OnLine | Chinese Dialect Exercise Objectives | Chinese Teaching Materials |
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Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online (cn)
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm
Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online
We suggest you to download and use NJWIN (2.32) to view characters (big5) in each lesson. The hard copy of each lesson is available in pdf format.
china | cn | language | online | mandarin |
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Chinese Language Related Information Page
http://www.webcom.com/bamboo/chinese/
Chinese Language Related Information Page
Viewing and Listening to Chinese on the WWW | Study Chinese Language: Courses | Links to Chinese Language Related FTP Sites | Sources of Chinese Text Files | Chinese Educational Resources | Scholarly and Linguistic Resources on Chinese | Resources for East Asiatic Librarianship | Information about Programming Chinese-Language Software | Chinese-Language Radio Broadcasts |
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Chinese Learner's Alternative Page (cn)
http://www.sinologic.com/clas/index.html
Chinese Learner's Alternative Page
C L A S offers you supplementary learning material on Chinese language and original articles on what's happening today in Chinese language and Chinese culture.
This site is not only a free support for the users of HyperChina, but also an electronic magazine for anyone interested in Chinese language or Chinese culture.
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MyCantonese.Net Online Chinese Classrooms (cn)
http://www.mycantonese.net/classrooms/default.asp?CAT_ID=3
MyCantonese.Net Online Chinese Classrooms
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Chinese Lesson Plans at ERIC
http://www.eduref.org/
Chinese Lesson Plans at ERIC
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Languages Other than English - LOTE (cn)
http://www.sedl.org/loteced/lotelinks/chinese.html
Languages Other than English - LOTE
This website maintained by the LOTE Center for Educator Development (Texas) contains resources for the LOTE teacher that relate to instructional principles in teaching a Language Other Than English, and for improving the teaching and learning of languages.
Arabic | Chinese | Classics | French | German | Japanese | Russian | Spanish |
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My First Chinese Words Traditional (Books 1-36)
http://www.shens.com/cgi-bin/mas/category.cgi?item=BC001
This set of My First Chinese Words is specially designed for young children of non-native Chinese families or those living in non-Chinese speaking communities. 36 single-lesson books contain the very first set of basic Chinese characters and sentence patterns compiled by highly experienced Chinese teachers. Lively and friendly illustrations help bring a new language closer to home. Learning Chinese as a second language becomes a lot of fun through these fine little books.
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OCLC Language Sets - Chinese (cn)
http://www.oclc.org/languagesets/options/
OCLC Language Sets reflect changing demographic and immigration patterns in North America. The languages available represent some of the fastest-growing populations that your library may need to serve.
This will be of particular interest to librarians.
cn | language | publisher | books |
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Chinese Language Links (cn)
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/index.php?category=Languages%7CBy+Language%7CChinese
Chinese Language Links at "I Love Languages"
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Better Chinese (cn)
http://www.betterchinese.com:8004/default.htm
Better Chinese
china | cn | language | online |
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MemChinese - popular tool to learn chinese (cn)
http://www.memchinese.com
MemChinese - popular tool to learn chinese
MemChinese demonstrates a cartoon like demonstration of how to write Chinese; making it that much easier to learn Chinese
MemChinese helps you pronounce Standard Mandarin, and helps you to learn and speak pure Chinese
The phrases make it easy to grasp the pronunciation and usage of a large amount of Chinese phrases
More than 7000 Chinese characters and 20,000 phrases including Chinese and standard Chinese
Runs directly from Windows (English Version)
china | cn | language | software |
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Bilingual Online Story Site : Chinese
http://www.betterchinese.com
For kids to learn Chinese with fun and ease, or simply just to view stories to enhance IQ and EQ, please check out http://www.betterchinese.com/ for lively animated stories in Putonghua Chinese.
EVERYDAY, a new story is presented to you with multimedia effects for cultural enjoyment and language enrichment. Remember: One story a day will help you live and learn in a fun way.
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