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Chinese Learning Objects view detail comment email this

Collection of online instructional materials "that will help students improve their ability to read Chinese." Includes full form and simplified Chinese character lessons introducing China's geography, popular surnames, common warning signs and notices, items on a Chinese restaurant menu, and other Chinese words and phrases. From the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland; funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
http://www.nflc.org/projects/current_projects/used_chinese_los/
Topics: Languages

Last updated Jun 13, 2007


Chinese Seals view detail comment email this

Images of hundreds of pages from "a 14-volume set of imprints of ancient Chinese seals. On each page is a carefully executed impression of a seal and drawing of the seal stone." Not annotated. From the University of California, Merced, Library.
http://library.ucmerced.edu/sc/seals/
Topics: Language, Languages, Writing

Last updated Aug 30, 2006


HICUP: Health Information in Chinese Uniting Patients, Physicians and the Public view detail comment email this

Librarians and health educators at the New York University School of Medicine have created a site with patient education and consumer health materials in Chinese. All materials and Web site links have been reviewed by bilingual health educators for accuracy, readability, and authority. The materials offer information about diseases and conditions, diagnostic procedures, safety, nutrition, and insurance.
http://library.med.nyu.edu/patient/hicup/
Topics: Consumer Research & Advocacy, Drugs, Federal (U.S.) Government, Finance, Health, Languages, Medical Treatments & Devices, Senior Health, Seniors

Last updated May 14, 2002


Learning Chinese Online view detail comment email this

A directory of online resources to help with learning Chinese. Covers pronunciation, conversation, characters, grammar, reading, listening, dictionaries, translation, and testing. Also provides information on Chinese programs, online schools, and study in China. Maintained by Dr. Tianwei Xie in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, California State University at Long Beach.
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
Topics: Languages

Last updated Jan 3, 2006


Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks view detail comment email this

Contains annotated links to hundreds of websites related to Chinese culture, Chinese language and linguistics, and general linguistics. Maintained by a professor of East Asian languages and literature at Ohio State University.
http://chinalinks.osu.edu/
Topics: Language, Languages, Social Science

Last updated Aug 14, 2005


Zhongwen.com: Chinese Characters and Culture view detail comment email this

The site contains an easy-to-use dictionary of over 4,000 Chinese characters (approximately 12,000 multi-character words). Look up words by pronunciation, radical, stroke count, or English equivalent. Gives definition, etymology, sound, and usage. Includes bilingual editions of famous Chinese texts, names for prominent Chinese-Americans, Chinese dynasties, Chinese surnames, an introduction to the written language, and help with the pronunciation differences between Mandarin spoken in Taiwan and in China.
http://www.zhongwen.com/noads.htm
Topics: Dictionaries, Language, Languages

Last updated Jul 25, 2002




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