Where is Chinese spoken in PA?
Want to find out where Chinese is spoken in Pennsylvania? Take a look at the MLA Language Map. You can also find where other languages are spoken across the U.S. The interactive map lets you see the variety of languages spoken in the United States and can be a useful tool for classrooms also....
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...
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 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....
Word Order
Gateway to Chinese: Word Order A collection of 20 video lessons on grammar topics for beginning Chinese, available as a YouTube playlist. Two levels of exercises, 66 and 35 questions respectively, are available now and more will come soon. This is an LRC created material set by the Center for Open Educational Resources and...
Grammar Lesson Videos
Gateway to Chinese: Grammar Lessons This instructional video course has 20 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a particular word, a group of words with similar functions, or a specific syntactic pattern. This is an LRC created material set by the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) at the University of Texas,...