Web Assisted Chinese Learning

On-line Chinese Schools
On-line Textbooks
Course Assistance
Exercises - Pinyin
Exercises - Speaking
Exercises - Reading
Exercises - Characters
Others
 
On-line Chinese Schools
Online College of Chinese Language An online Chinese school constructed by Chinese government. You need to register in order to learn, but it's free. On-line teachers answer your questions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (Highly Recommended)
 
Speaking Chinese A virtual language school practicing your listening, reading, and speaking Chinese (Mandarin, or Putonghua) abilities under a multimedia environment and do your assignment interactively.
 
Beijing Language and Culture University Get a degree of Chinese language from a Chinese university (on-line distant education, payments).
 
Learning Chinese Online Learn Mandarin Chinese and Chinese culture online. Tutorial lessons of simplified Chinese, Mandarin, and phonics (pinyin).
 
On-line Textbooks 
Online Mandarin Course Basic 10 week course in Mandarin Chinese delivered via the Web. Free sample materials.
 
Video Clips of Survival Chinese Going to China tomorrow?! This one teaches you daily conversation by video clips. Wonderful, right? (Highly Recommended)
 
Speak Mandarin in Five Hundred Words This site was built by Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission in Taiwan. It tries to teach you to speak practical dialogues with limited vocabulary in 30 lessons. It has texts, vocabularies, exercises, all with audio support.
 
Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online Dr. Tianwei Xie is one of the leading scholars on WACL (web assisted Chinese learning). Have a look here and see what is special.
 
Chinese for businessmen A site teaches you practical business Chinese, how to write a bussiness letter, what to say in a meeting, etc. It does not teach you real language, rather several expressions.
 
Course Assistance
Chinese site of Harvard One of the earliest Chinese language learning site.
 
Basic Chinese Grammar Teaching Chinese grammar by slides.
 
Exercises - Pinyin
Chinese Pronunciation Guide Pinyin practice, Harvard University. (Highly Recommended)
 
Practice your Pinyin Pinyin practice, University of Iowa.
 
Mandarin Chinese Phonetics Pronunciation Guide A one page site that tries to help you to pronounce properly with rerference to English.
 
Exercises - Speaking
Audio Tutorial of Survival Chinese Practical vocabularies and short sentences for tourists, with audio support. No text, no grammar and no exercises.
 
Listening Comprehension With questions and answers.
 
Exercises - Reading
Study Mandarin Chinese using VOA A wonderful site to learn news in Chinese,VOA news with Pinyin, English translation, and audio files.
 
News in Chinese University of Hawaii. An excellent place to learn to read news in Chinese.
 
Black Dragon Read a Chinese novel (not so difficult) with explanation to every word. 
 
Exercises - Characters
Zhongwen.com A wonderful site to learn some knowledge about Chinese language. (Highly Recommended)
 
The 214 classifiers Learn something about the radicals of the Chinese characters.
 
Others
HSK.com HSK is the official Chinese language proficiency test to foreigners.This site has all the necessary informations and sample tests.
 
WannaLearn.com: Chinese A collection of free online tutorials, lessons, guides and instructionally oriented Web sites to help you learn the Chinese language.
 
LCTL Experts Feel difficult to learn Chinese? These experts may help you. So send them an e-mail from here.
 
Pinyin-Zhuyin Converter a table that converts Pinyin system to Zhuyin system, with conversion for every syllable.
 

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