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Chinese Learning Resources Websites and Software   1. Websites:   1.1 Supplementary materials for Integrated Chinese:   For students: 1) Listening      http://www.language.berkeley.edu/ic/toc.html 2) Character learning      http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/index.html      http://trc.ucdavis.edu/msjacob/gamelist.htm 3) Learning tips in general      http://trc.ucdavis.edu/msjacob/langtips.htm   For teachers: 1) Games created for the lessons by Mary Jacob      http://trc.ucdavis.edu/msjacob/gamelist.htm 2) Berkeley Review and practice      http://www.language.berkeley.edu/ic/gb/toc.html 3) Yao’s websites      http://eall.hawaii.edu/yao/icusers/tcforic.htm      User name: tyaoicusers      Password:  ictests      http://eall.hawaii.edu/yao/icusers/Default.htm 4) Teaching plans      http://eall.hawaii.edu/yao/AB/tmenu.htm 5) Quizzes:      http://languageandculturetraining.wikispaces.com/Instructors%27+Folders     1.2 Pinyin and Tones 1) Pinyin Table+audio      http://www.pinyin.org/?source=google&kw=chinesePinyin 2) Rules of Pinyin      http://www.pinyin.info/rules/index.html 3) Exercises (Real Player needed)      http://www.mandarin123.com/pronunciation.html     1.3 Characters/words 1) English-Chinese Dictionary Hai3Ci2 (you can search Chinese or English words)      http://www.dict.cn/ 2) A summary of Chinese Characters      http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese_types.htm 3) On-line Chinese Etymological Dictionary      http://www.zhongwen.com/ 4) English-Chinese vocabulary – themed word list      http://www.chinese-tools.com/chinese/vocabulary     1.4 Basic Grammar 1) Basic Chinese Grammar: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rsimmon/chingram/     1.5 Dialogues and Exercises 1) Culture and Basic Chinese Language http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/greetings/activity.shtml 2) Conversational Chinese Online http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm     1.6 E-Dictionaries: http://www.zhongwen.com http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/     1.7 Language Fun •           Chinese idioms http://www.china.org.cn/e-learning/34/idiom.htm   Culture and Cross-Cultural Materials •           Quick Facts about China http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/China2004/106384.htm •           Chinese literature Classical literature http://trc.ucdavis.edu/msjacob/chn107/litlinks.htm Chinese poetry http://www.china.org.cn/e-learning/34/poetry.htm Chinese calligraphy http://www.shufawest.us/models/index.html •           Chinese movies A timeline: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001614559 A Chinese cinema site http://www.chinesecinemas.org/ Chinese video channels similar to Youtube http://www.56.com/ http://www.tudou.com/ •           Chinese music http://music.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/chinese-music/ Chinese pop songs http://www.learn-chinese-through-music.com/index.html Chinese pop songs search http://mp3.baidu.com/ •           Chinese architecture Classic architecture http://www.chiculture.net/0514/html/0514b10/0514b10.html (in Chinese) Suzhou gardens http://www.china.org.cn/english/e-sz/index.htm •           Chinese food Chinese menus http://www.china.org.cn/e-learning/34/dish.htm Learn to cook Chinese dishes http://www.china.org.cn/english/food/26593.htm •           Chinese Pod A free podcast for various topics http://chinesepod.com/     1.8 Other Links: A collection of links by Mary Jacob http://trc.ucdavis.edu/msjacob/ChinaLinks.htm Learning Chinese online by Xie Tianwei http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm Free online Mandarin learning tool (audio&text) http://www.loquella.com/learn-chinese/ Online class http://www.guavatalk.com/chinese/ Chinese learning materials: Language and Literature References http://www.chineseupress.com/promotion/Chinese_Language/Chinese_Language_c.html?ID=103 Online community http://languageandculturetraining.wikispaces.com/Chinese Online games and tests http://www.quia.com/shared/search?category=9&adv_search=true