Saturday, January 17, 2009

Conversation chinese learning

Real Chinese (By BBC) 11 units Date: None
Audio Tutorial of Survival Chinese (By Yuan, Haiwang and Remy Guo) Adoptive parents now can learn to say "I love you," "I am your Mommy," "It's bed time," and "No, you may not date until you are thirty-five!" Date: None
Audio Tutorial of Survival Chinese (By Yuan, Haiwang & Remy Guo) One of the first sites of online learning. Some basic Chinese conversational phrases and sentences can be heard. Date: 1995
Beginning Chinese for Korean 初級中國語會話 17 Lessons. Practical Chinese Reader users may use these lessons for supplemental reading. Date: None
China Through A Lens (By China Internet Information Center 中国网) 27 conversational lessons with sound files Date: None
Chinese in 10 Minutes a Day (By Chinese-tools.com) 40 online lessons with audio, including reading, writing, modern vocabulary, grammar, examples and exercices. All texts and dialogs in mp3 format for download. Date: 2005-2006
Chinese Language and Culture Forums: Pinyin Chat Box (By Haynes, Jamie Butler) Type the pinyin word followed by the tone number. For an umlaut, type "uu". For an umlaut with tone mark, type "uu" immediately followed by the tone number. Example, type 'Zhe4 ge Pin1yin1 liao2tian1 shi4 hen3 you3 te4se4.' the sentence 'Zhè ge Pīnyīn liáotiān shì hěn yǒu tèsè.' will be displayed in chat window. Date: None
Chinese Learn Online (By chineselearnonline.com) Podcasting for beginning Chinese learners. Date: None
Chinese Multimedia (By University of Oxford, Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Multimedia learning materials including 22 lessons, vocabulary and exercises. Video clips accompany the texts. Vocabulary, character lists are available. Good supplementary materials for elementary-intermediate learners, particularly for the users of the textbook Practical Chinese Reader. Date: None
Chinese Phrases for Travelers (By Touming Michiru Okuda) This site uses the Simplified Chinese characters and Pinyin to provide some useful phrases for travellers. The phrases can be seen and heard. Date: 2005-2006
Chinese Quick Fix (By LcWebLink.Info 联网联信息公司) Learn to speak Chinese online for free - with voices and pictures. Users can search a sentence and find its equivalents in other languages. Date: 2007
ChineseHour (By Chinesehour.com) An online site to teach Chinese. 24/7 live conversation class and multimedia self-paced courses. Date: 2006-2007
Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online (By Xie, Tianwei) Online materials for learning Chinese conversation. It includes 15 units with patterns and practice drills. Date: Updated 2004
Find Chinese Penpals (By MyLanguageExchange.com) This is a web site to find penpals for learning and exchanging languages. Users may find penpals all over the world. Users can do text chatting. It used to have have voice chat rooms. It stopped it's service now, but recommended Skype and Paltalk as two voice chat programs. If penpals have nothing to talk about, they can find some lesson plans to study together. Very good online activities to help learning. Singing up is required to join the community. Date: 2000-2004
Learn Chinese (By Tianwei Xie) (by clearchinese.com) Free Mandarin Chinese lessons with audio. Prepared by Dr Xie Tianwei. Date: 2007
Learn Mandarin with Free Chinese Lessons (By LearnChineseEZ.com) The web site provides practical travel vocabulary and a foundation for basic conversational skills through a simple listen and repeat format. Date: 2008
Learning Chinese (By China Internet Information Center) Seventeen lessons with recordings for vocabulary and text. Supplementary learning material for intermediate or advanced learners. Date: 2001
Learning Chinese Using QQ (By Brown, Tyson) This is a unique site where students can use QQ to communicate with native Chinese speakers and learn Chinese. Date: None
Loecsen Orizon (By Loecsen Orizon) A web site providing conversational Chinese (and other languages) for travelers. Sentences are accompanied by sketch pictures to illustrate the situation where conversation happens. Date: None
Putonghua for Beginners (By Xu, Xunfeng) Seven lessons of conversational Chinese. Sound files available. Simple and easy for beginners only. Date: None
Smarter Chinese Child 聪明小孩 (By MSN) A computer robot will converse with you in simplified Chinese characters. Add smarterchinesechild@hotmail.com to your messenger contact list. You can \ Date: None
TeLL me More Chinese (By Auralog.com) A speech recognition and synthesis technology based learning tool for beginning, intermediate and advanced students. Focusing on Mandarin Chinese, simplified writing and Pinyin, TeLL me More covers all the essential areas of language learning: command of over 800 basic characters, comprehension, pronunciation, written expression and grammar. Date: None
Video Clips of Survival Chinese (By Bai, Jianhua) Designed for students of low intermediate level who want to improve their listening skills and to learn to function in various real-life situations in China. Each video clip has a transcription with word annotation and comprehension questions. Good supplementary listening and speaking materials for intermediate learners. Date: 2001
Zhongwen Pinyin Chat (By Harbaugh, Rick) This is the first chat site in Pinyin for Chinese language learners. Date: 1996