Mandarin Learning Tools
I made these for my own use, but please feel free to use them yourself. I have proofread each file, but would not be surprised to find a typo or two - please email me if you find any errors. Thanks to Dr. Liu Li Chia for providing the vocabulary for the flash cards below.
Online Listening Comprehension resources
| Online Mandarin Dictionaries: |
An extremely useful site! Among other things, will convert typed Chinese characters into the shufa style of your choice. |
The seminal Character dictionary. Excellent for finding characters by their components. |
A great dictionary for those hard-to-find older words. |
203 Chengyu stories - 203 short chengyu stories in modern Mandarin, each with an accompanying translation of the characters in a pdf file. Excellent reading practice. 75 MB zip file. There are occasional typographical errors - these are from the original files. [Stories from http://cygs.cnwenhua.org/; translations from http://www.mdbg.net]
Measure Words Flash Cards - think you know your measure words? Train with this flash card application (requires Macromedia Flash player)
Tone drill - a Macromedia Flash application to test your recognition of Mandarin tones
NEW! Duo Tone drill - like Tone Drill, but each item is a two-character phrase.
Interactions I & II Flash Cards - a Macromedia Flash application to test your Mandarin Vocabulary - based on the vocabulary from textbooks Interactions I & II
Connections I & II Flash Cards - a Macromedia Flash application to test your Mandarin Vocabulary - based on the vocabulary from textbooks Connections I & II
Paper Flash Cards - The Interactions and Connections I & II vocabulary on double-sided flash cards. Requires Microsoft Word and a suitable font such as Arial Unicode MS or Lucinda Sans Unicode. Print each document duplexed (2-sided), or print them single sided and photocopy them back to back.
| Interactions I | Interactions II | Connections I | Connections II |
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