Chinese Language Links

News and Media

Selection of links to Chinese websites for television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and other media.

CCTV
wwiTV

Baidu

Travel and Study Abroad

Selection of links to Chinese airlines and train stations, main cities and study abroad programs.

Tsinghua University

Shopping

Links to websites selling Chinese products (music, books, etc...)

Language Associations

Links to Chinese language associations.

Chinese Language Teachers Association

Local Connections

Links to Chinese stores, restaurants, museums, etc, located in the Denver-Boulder metropolitan area.

Apps

Pinyin Trainer by trainchinese

iPhone, iPad, Android (free)
Pinyin Trainer will help you practice the tonal nature of Mandarin using Pinyin, the standard Romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.

Pinyin Pronunciation

BlackBerry ($0.99)
Pinyin Pronunciation is designed for beginners to easily follow the software to speak the pinyin of each Chinese character.

Chinese Number Trainer by trainchinese

Number Trainer iPhone, iPad (free)
Translate numbers to and from Chinese, test yourself with the quiz (watch out for that rocket) and present your contacts' details in Chinese.

Chinese Character Trainer

Character Trainer Android (free)
This app uses flashcards to teach Chinese characters that are based on the Jun Da Character frequency list of Modern Chinese.

Pleco Chinese Dictionary

Pleco Chinese iPhone, iPad (free), Android (free trail)
Pleco is the ultimate Chinese learning companion - an integrated Chinese dictionary / document reader / flashcard system with fullscreen handwriting input and live camera-based character recognition.

ZAKER

ZAKER iPad (free)
ZAKER iPad customized specifically for readers, to show the best reading experience for microblogging, news, blog, newspaper, magazines and other information.

Radio Chinese

iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry (free)
Radio Chinese Plus+ brings you popular U.S. based Chinese radio stations and music channels featuring top Mandarin radio station KAZN-AM1300 in Los Angeles, top Cantonese radio station KMRB-AM1430 in Los Angeles, top Mandarin radio station WKDM-AM1380 in New York, top Cantonese radio station WZRC-AM1480 in New York, and other popular Chinese music channels.

Teaching Resources

Links to teaching resources.

Language Instruction

Traditional-Simplified Chinese Character Tutor http://www.language.berkeley.edu/fanjian/start.html This tutorial teaches the method by which Chinese characters are simplified. It provides presentations and practice activities.

Character Learning Website- University of Virginia

Character Learning http://faculty.virginia.edu/cll/chinese/index.html This tutorial teaches the method by which Chinese characters are simplified. It provides presentations and practice activities.

Culture & Society

Sinophilia http://sinophilia.org/index.htm This extensive website provides a wealth of information and beautiful visuals on China. It can be used as a reference site, or can be assigned as readings. *This website was NOT peer reviewed.

China Corner http://www.china-corner.com This site provides information about Chinese culture and literature. It can be used as a reference site, the pictures can be shown and studied in class. The individual articles can be assigned as readings.

Literature

Readings in Chinese http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/reading_page.htm University of Southern California: A collection of readings and short stories for all levels; including poems, myths and progessive readings.

Chinese Text Initiative http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/ Reading/comprehension: This website is a project of the University of Virginia Library. Many links are not yet active, but a number of texts are accessible in Chinese and in English translation.

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