Please note that CLSC does not endorse any of the following programs or

products. Most have been suggested to us, and some of us  have found

them useful. 

Travel to China: China Connection Tours (a few CLSC families have used

China Connections and have found them professional, reliable, with

reasonable rates and customizable programs)  email Michael Xu

at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   or visit http://www.china-tour.cn/

Chinese Learning Tools (to order, please go to our web site's Sponsor page,

click the Amazon link and search for products):

           Apple I-Touch or I-Phone (download free apps such as Chinese

           calligraphy writer and Chinese dictionary)

           My Chinese Coach (for Niintendo DS, practice speaking, reading,

           writing and listening to Chinese)

Summer Camps

http://www.wemunc.org/en/index.jsp (for middle school and

high school students); contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with questions.

http://www.mysummercamps.com/camps/Study_Abroad_and_International_Camps/China/index.html

International_Camps/China/index.html

www.discovercampchina.com

 

Most Common 3,000 Chinese Characters:

http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html

http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000en.html

http://www.zein.se/patrick/mainenp.html

 

General China and Chinese Culture:

Chinese games: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/games/

http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html

http://www.zhongwen.com/

 

Learn Chinese Phrases

http://www.wku.edu/%7Eyuanh/AudioChinese/index.html

http://english.china.com/zh_cn/chinese/index.html

 

Writing in Chinese

http://www.edhelper.com/ChineseNumbersH1.htm http://www.edhelper.com/ChineseNumbersH1.htm http://www.edhelper.com/ChineseNewYearConnectTheDots.htm

How to mark pinyin with tones?

http://www.csulb.edu/%7Etxie/PINYIN/pinyin.htm

Animated stroke order
You can check the following pages to get the animated stroke

order for various Chinese characters:

http://www.bluetec.com.cn/asp/mymandarin/class_book.htm
http://www.bluetec.com.cn/asp/mymandarin/bishun/bishun.htm

A computer assisted approach to writing Chinese

http://www.njstar.com/ Chinese software to download. Student can

learn to write Chinese on the computer using Hanyu Pinyin. It's an

easy and fun way for them to review and learn Chinese characters.

Often Chinese words that are made up of 2 characters would

automatically show up as a choice when the first character is selected.

 

Look Up Chinese Characters

http://www.chinese-symbols.com/

 

Chinese Dictionaries / Learn Chinese

On-line Chinese Tools

Chinese-English-Pinyin Reference Dictionary

Speech Sounds of Mandarin Chinese

Chinese Dictionary 

Learning Chinese Online

Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online

Learn Chinese Learn Chinese

 

Animated Websites for Children

http://www.funchinese.com/  (subscription-based website, 

Level 1 is good for Chopstix and Beg 1 students; Level 2 & 3 is

good for Beg 1 & 2 students)

http://www.betterchinese.com/ (Level 3 and 4 students)

http://sonicnovel.com/kanjia.html (animated Chinese characters)

Links to Other Pages with Chinese Links

http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese.html