These materials have been recommended by students and teachers but Dacorum Chinese School Association offers no warranty of fitness for purpose
on-line Dictionaries |
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Yellowbridge |
http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/chinese-dictionary.php |
on-line dictionary converting between English, Chinese (Simplified or Traditional) and Pinyin. It also has stroke animations of the way to write characters and a 'drawing pad' to input characters |
MDBG Dictionary |
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php |
on-line dictionary converting between English, Chinese (Simplified or Traditional) and Pinyin. It also has the ability to attempt to translate substantial amounts of text, not just individual words |
Learning Software |
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Newpepper |
http://speachi.com/speachi/ |
This is the learning software being used by the School - ask your teacher how you can access it. You can try it out for a short period by downloading from the website |
Browser plug-in |
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Perapera-kun |
http://perapera.wordpress.com/ |
A plug-in for Firefox or Internet Explorer which uses a dictionary to translate Chinese Character text on web pages |
Language support tools |
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Pinyin Joe |
http://www.pinyinjoe.com/ |
A site with instructions on how to set up your Windows PC to allow you to type chinese characters. It also has macros to convert numbered Pinyin (eg hao3) into Pinyin with tone marks in Microsoft Word and Excel |
on-line TV |
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CCTV-9 Travel in Chinese |
http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/travelinchinese/index.shtml |
CCTV-9 is the English language service of China state TV. It includes programmes to support learning Mandarin including Travel in Chinese which is aimed at intermediate students. About 100 episodes are available here. |
on-line learning materials |
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BBC languages matertial all ages |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/ |
video and learning materials at an introductory level |
BBC languages material for primary school age children |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/mandarin/ |
video, games and learning materials aimed at primary school children |
Confucius Institute online |
http://cul.chinese.cn/en/ |
rich source of learning materials, cultural material, educational games etc |
UKAPCE |
http://www.ukapce.org.uk |
information on UK competitions and teaching development activities |
Overseas Chinese Language and Culture Education on-line |
http://www.hwjyw.com |
Information on Chinese language and culture teaching activities (some in China) and materials - site is mainly in Chinese |