Online Tools and
Resources for Elementary Mandarin Courses

by Shijuan Liu (sliu@iup.edu, or shijuanliu@hotmail.com)

 https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_F4nmxfVmNaODgyNzAyYTMtZDNmZC00ZTU5LWIzZGUtOTNiYWZlN2MzYjdm

Things to do in class

1. Type Chinese characters (3 ways)

http://sites.google.com/site/chinese100a/Home/type-chinese-characters

(1)   type online (only need the internet connection)

http://chinese.cari.com.my/ime/py21000.html
http://chinese.cari.com.my/ime/
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/ime.html

(2)   change the setting in your computer (PC or Mac)

(3)   download Google Pinyin

2. Annotation (add Pinyin and English annotation)

http://sites.google.com/site/chinese100a/Home/annotation-and-translation

(1) http://mandarinspot.com/annotate

Try the webpages:

http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/20100831/100943.shtml (Copy the text, paste it to the Mandarinspot.com website)

http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20111028-Hong-Kong-University-President-132770963.html (Copy the text, paste it to the Mandarinspot.com website)

(2) other websites

http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/annotation.html

3. Stroke order of characters

• http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-stroke-order.php?searchChinese=1&zi=%E5%9C%8B (stroke order, translation, etc.)
• http://www.eon.com.hk (stroke order)
•  http://www.archchinese.com/arch_animation.html (stroke order, pronunciation, phrase, dictionary)

Homework, due Monday, 10/31

1.      Please type a paragraph or two in Chinese to introduce yourself and your family. If you do not want to talk about yourself and/or your family, you can talk about the character Li You (李友) in our textbook, or any other family you would like to introduce.

Please post your homework in our D2L > Discussions > Typing Homework

    2. Write down in Chinese characters, from number 1 to 99, (handwritten)

Level 1 Part 1: http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/fc-options.php?deck=ic3-1-1

Level 1 Part 2: http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/fc-options.php?deck=ic3-1-2

http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/20100524/101777.shtml 

http://www.youtube.com/user/ActiveChinese

1. China Central TV (CCTV), the national TV network in China, produced a series of Chinese learning videos, for different levels (beginning, intermediate, advanced), and on various topics (e.g., travel, communication, Kungfu) at its http://english.cntv.cn/01/index.shtml.

2.BBC in UK made a seris of video on learning Chinese, available athttp://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Grammar%20exercises/Comparatives.htm#Exercises 

http://www.weather.com.cn/video/tqyb/05/508815.shtml