China Links
last revised March 14, 2005

Pinyin

• Alan Peterka's new pinyin pages, at University of Iowa.
• Harvard University's pinyin pages
• Patrick Moran's drawing of mouth positions for difficult Chinese sounds, at Wake Forest University
• Chart comparing pinyin and bopomofo system, at SDSU

Listening practice

• Hu Mingliang's beginning level listening exercises
• Ting, the Chinese Experience, is a site at the University of Maine where you can hear a variety of sentences read by different speakers. You may need to change character set to Simplified Chinese, GB.
• Rutgers University on-line beginning Chinese reading and listening materials
• UC Berkeley's on-line exercises to accompany Integrated Chinese, level 1 part 1 (traditional character form, lessons 1-11)
• UC Berkeley's simplified character version of the same exercises (lessons 1-23)
• Downloadable sound files for Integrated Chinese from SDSU
  • level 1 part 1
  • level 1 part 2
  • level 2

Video and audio clips

• Oxford University'sChinese Multimedia course (in simplified characters), which can be used as a stand-alone course or supplementary module
• Mellon collection of video clips, at the University of Puget Sound
• Video clips of survival Chinese at Kenyon College
• Chinese video exercises by Mingliang Hu at Connecticut College
• Jasmine flower song
• The Children's Chinese Reader, Taiwan website to accompany a popular textbook series for Chinese schools abroad. Click on a number to go to that lesson. There are video and audio clips, as well as pinyin translations.

Reading

• UC Berkeley's on-line exercises to accompany Integrated Chinese, level 1 part 1
• USC's Chinese readings page. Click on "humor stories" to read the jokes. You may need to change character set to Traditional Chinese, Big5.
• Rutgers University on-line beginning Chinese reading and listening materials
• University of Virginia's list of easy readings. These are appropriate for Chinese 3, 4 and above. Click on the Audio link and listen while you read.
• Vocabulary practice to accompany Integrated Chinese levels 1 and 2

Writing

• USC's animated Chinese characters to accompany Integrated Chinese
• Explanation of Chinese radicals, by Ulrich Theobald, at China Knowledge
• Dragonwise animated Chinese characters. Click on any character, and then on the place where you think the stroke begins to see it written stroke by stroke. Characters are arranged by number of strokes.
• Colby College's Grammar exercises to accompany Integrated Chinese. You may need to change encoding to "Traditional Chinese, Big5."

Other resources

• Zhongwen.com on-line Chinese dictionary
• Introduction to Chinese Grammar, by Shun Ha Sylvia Konecna Wong (see her page on aspect and verb tense)
• Tim Xie's Learning Chinese On-line page, at CSULB
• Integrated Chinese textbook home page
• Materials created by Mary Jacob to supplement Integrated Chinese, level 1:
  • sentence patterns for Integrated Chinese, level 1 with links to interactive exercises for each pattern
  • tips for learning Chinese
  • character worksheet FAQ: how to spend less time and learn more
  • language games on the Quia! site for Integrated Chinese, level 1 (Note: This set of materials was created several years ago and I no longer have the capability of revising them. The activities do not necessarily work on all computers).