Mandarin learning is a must
Learning Mandarin is critical to the educational and economic success of American students. Views from Delaware and Utah programs are featured in this article. by Jack Markell and Gary R. Herbert, U.S. News and World Report, October 25, 2016 Go to Article ...
Bilingual education on the rise in China
Bilingual education on the rise in China as parents seek to ready their kids for life in a more globalized atmosphere By Zhang Xinyuan, Global Times, October 9, 2016 This is an essay on the rise of bilingual schools in China, which offer a model to education that has elements of Western and Chinese...
National Academy for Educational Research
The National Academy for Educational Research in Taiwan makes available six online dictionaries of traditional Chinese: A Concise Chinese Character Dictionary (國語小字典) New Chinese Dictionary (revised edition) (重編國語辭典修訂本) Shorter Chinese Dictionary (國語辭典簡編本) Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (異體字字典) Chinese Idiom Dictionary (成語典) English-Chinese Bilingual Dictionary & Database for Proper Names and Academic Terms (雙語詞彙、學術名詞暨辭書資訊網)...
Speech Acts In Films
Speech Acts in Films is a site where students of Mandarin Chinese learn to examine, understand, and practice social language through the medium of film. The primary audience of the materials are low-advanced and advanced learners who completed approximately two years of language instruction. The materials have been developed for blended-learning environments, but can...
Chinese Tone Pairs
Yangyang Chen explains to you in a video lesson what tones there are in Chinese and guides you through practice. With pinyin charts that you can download. The video is about 30 minutes long. Go to YouTube video....
Multimedia Role Play
This website has been created by the Oxford Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CTFL). Build around ‘situation’, the site encourages you to role play. It first provides relevant vocabulary and sentence patterns that you need to know in order to play a role, it explains the tasks that you have to...
Chinese Tone Games
In this game-like environment, you can listen to tones, then you will be guided to learn to hear the differences between them, and finally you can test yourself. This module is part of the BBC Chinese Language Course. The site is no longer maintained, but you can still access the module. Go to Website...
Chinese Literature Podcast
This podcast is in English. Started in May 2016, this is a relatively new podcast. The program discusses important works and writers in Chinese literature, ranging from the earliest Chinese poetry to contemporary novels. Direct link to itunes: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chinese-literature-podcast/id1102235260?mt=2...
Justing
［静雅思听］品质美文 The producer ‘静雅思听’ (Justing), which started in 2007, is a company specializing in audio post production. This Chinese podcast introduces and describes selected books and articles from around the world to listeners. The selection is quite diverse and ranges from description of novels by the Russian poet Tolstoj to non-fiction publications about business...
Xinwen Zaocan
新闻早餐(Xinwen Zaocan) ‘News at Breakfast’, is sponsored by eastday.com and provides 5-8 minutes of news every day. Direct link to app on itunes: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/xin-wen-zao-can/id1135329297?mt=2...