Harvard's Archive of Chinese Teaching Materials

 

Western Kentucky University's Audio Tutorial of Survival Chinese

May be useful for the absolute beginner. Maybe a little slow because you will be listening to audio on-line.

Chinese Character Pronunciations

Input (copy-and-paste) any Chinese text and obtain the transliteration in Mandarin (pinyin) or Cantonese.

Chinese Handouts

This site was created by Professor Harold C. Hill at Washington and Lee University and contains helpful handouts for 2nd or 3rd students of Chinese. The subjects include romanization systems (pinyin, Wade-Giles, Yale), Classical Chinese, useful signs and labels, and more.

Chinese Text Sampler

Compiled by Professor David Porter at University of Michigan, the 80 short to medium-length texts (both traditional and modern) included on the Sampler site were chosen on the basis of their being both well-known in China and likely to engage the interest of English-speaking students. A brief introduction in English is provided for each entry, and each text is available both as an HTML document for viewing with a web browser and as a GB-coded text file for downloading and reading with other software. In addition, each text is graded according to the difficulty of the vocabulary it contains.

Classical Historiography for Chinese History

This site contains extensive lists of published works related to China. The topics are divided clearly for easy access. If you need to find out who wrote what on almost any subject pertaining to Chinese, then this is an appropriate place to start your search.

Bell Labs' Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis

This is an interactive demo of a Mandarin text-to-speech system. What you do is copy Chinese text (Big5 or GB) into their window and the system will pronounce all the characters. It's great if you want to know the pronunciation of a character. However, a downside is that it's awfully sluggish.

Teaching and Learning Chinese

Maintained by Professor Bai at Kenyon College

Multi-media Project for the Teaching and Learning of Chinese

Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Hong Kong.

Wenlin Chinese learning software

This site promotes the commercial Chinese learning software, Wenlin. The software comes in a CD-ROM.

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