Online resources (useful websites)

On-line Resources:

·         Pearson Chinese Link - This is an online study guide to accompany Chinese Link (中文天地). This website has been designed to enhance the cultural content of each chapter. This site includes the Textbook audio. Students are expected to do online homework on the website.

Windows XP Download Chinese Font Software:

·        Google Pinyin: Chinese PinYin Input Method Download

·        Office XP Tool: Global IME: Traditional/Simplified fonts

·        Pinyin Basics: with sound files

·        Chinese Phonetics: Tables with sound files

·        ZpChinese: Pinyin pronunciation, vowels/consonants with sound files

Writing characters:

·         Animated Chinese Characters - Stroke orders

·         eStrokes -  Animated Chinese Characters

·         Nicku Dictionary – Dictionary with stroke orders

·         Chinese-Tools.com - Chinese input method editor

·         Zhongwen.com - On-line Chinese Etymological

·         On-line Lin Yutang Dictionary

·         Chinese News articles (both in audio and video format)

·         Chinese to English Dictionary - electronic dictionary, part of the EDICT project.

Online Dictionaries:

·        Chinese-English Dictionary, English-Chinese Dictionary from Mandarintools.com

·        Chinese English Dictionary Search -- Ting 搜索汉英词典

·        YellowBridge Chinese-English Dictionary

·        Lexiconer English-Chinese Dictionary, Chinese-English Dictionary

·        Chineselanguage.org

·        A Chinese Radical Dictionary

·        Nicku

Maps:

·        Provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities

·        Important cities

·        Individual provinces and cities

·        River in China