New textbook: Essential Chinese Vocabulary
Routledge published a new book on learning vocabulary for beginning and intermediate students. The author is Dr. Wen-Hua Teng (University of Texas at Austin). Key features of “Essential Chinese Vocabulary”are: In-depth explanations of commonly used words and phrases contextualized with a range of authentic examples providing learners with a comprehensive understanding of the vocabulary-use...
2017 Chinese New Year
Celebrate the 2017 Chinese New Year in Philadelphia. Take a look at all of the events scheduled in the city. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation published a list. Chinese New Year Events...
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 The site is no longer maintained, but you can still access the module.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 Pod
Chinese Pod created a extensive site with detailed information about pinyin and the pronunciation associated with the consonant-vowel combinations in syllables. Listening to and practicing to hear the difference in tones is also part of the site. Go to Website...
Chinese Dialogues Podcast
Gateway to Chinese: Chinese Dialogue Podcast Chinese Dialogues Podcast is collection of 20 episodes, each episode has several simple dialogue exchanges and lasts one to two minutes. This is an LRC created material set by the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) at the University of Texas, Austin. Go to Website...
Chinese Take-in
Gateway to Chinese: Chinese Take-in There are 30 units in this listening practice website. Each unit includes a vocabulary list with pronunciation and ten listening questions. Students can listen to each question where there is a dialogue or passage, do a multiple choice question and receive feedback. The transcript for each situation is provided....
Pitch Perfect Pinyin
Gateway to Chinese: Pitch Perfect Pinyin Pitch Perfect Pinyin is a two-part (learning and practice) interactive website for learning pronunciation. The learning section consists of 13 units, one unit of basic information about pinyin and 12 other units on tones, initials and finals in Chinese syllable. Each example is coupled with a pronunciation audio....