Websites for Chinese Learning

Feng Laoshi

Pronunciation

http://chinesepod.com/tools/pronunciation/section/7 

（great explanation of the Chinese phonetic system; The
Pinyin Table including audio files can be downloaded for both PC and Mac version)

http://www.mandarintube.com/tools/pinyin/pinyin_chart.htm
(available in two voices, a female and a male)
http://www.chinesehour.com/site_media/home/misc/pinyinchart.swf

http://www.newconceptmandarin.com/learning-tools/introduction-to-pinyin.aspx
(visualize the tones, by a company, they may change the link at any time)

http://pinyin.quickmandarin.com/learn_chinese_quiz/tones_drill/ (tones drill)

http://talkbank.org/Pinyin/introduction.php (explanation and lessons about Pinyin)

https://sites.google.com/site/chinese100a/tongue-twister-ro-ku-ling (compiled tongue twisters including
Pinyin, English translation, and related online audio/video files)

http://english.cntv.cn/learnchinese (Chinese learning lesson series made by China Central TV , CCTV ,
including video clips and text script for the clips.)

http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese (Free online lessons, including audio files)

https://sites.google.com/site/chinese100a/Home/resources-categorized-by-topics (Group conversation resources based on topics)

http://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php

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Culture

https://sites.google.com/site/chinese100a/Home/popular-songs (Compilation of some songs that can be
used for Elementary Chinese)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s25Py74iTtc (video clips introducing Chinese Kungfu made by
CCTV in English)

http://english.cntv.cn/program/cultureexpress/chopsticks/index.shtml (video clips introducing Chinese
cooking made by CCTV in English)

https://sites.google.com/site/chinese100a/ (Under Culture and Civilization, collection of resources on
Chinese cultural topics)

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Character

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/WvUJupFNutk/ (Nezha learn Chinese characters with fun)

  (Learn character with Wukong 悟空识字)
http://www.archchinese.com/arch_animation.html (animated stroke order of characters, sound,
meaning)

http://res.chinese.cn/res_files/common_knowledge/ckculture23hanzi.swf (a flash movie on Chinese
characters, in Chinese with English subtitles)

http://www.eon.com.hk/estroke/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxWCAnaKjds

http://res.chinese.cn/res_files/common_knowledge/ckculture23hanzi.swf

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/flashcards.php

http://www.eon.com.hk/estroke/

http://quizlet.com/


Tools

http://hanyu.iciba.com/jiadiao.html (good)  add tones

http://chinese.cari.com.my/ime/ http://chinese.cari.com.my/ime/py21000.html  (type Chinese characters)

http://mandarinspot.com/annotate (Excellent website. Provide Pinyin and translation for the typed or
pasted text, or a whole web page) 

http://mandarinspot.com/dict (An online Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionary. Can search by providing Traditional or Simplified Chinese, Pinyin or English. Pronunciation can be shown as Hanyu Pinyin, Zhuyin Fuhao)

www.voicethread.com(veryinnovative.Manypeoplecangiveaudio/textcommentsonsame
files, nicely, visually organized)