Mandarin on-line resource


Language studies

http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/games/games.html#Talking
Website containing games and stories.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/games/characters.shtml
Practice writing characters on computer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/
A lively introduction to Mandarin Chinese in 10 short parts.

http://islands.csail.mit.edu/chinesecards/
To create and set up flash card game yourself. See the demo video before you have a try.

http://www.digitaldialects.com/index.htm
Fun interactive games for learning languages from Spanish to Slovak, French to Finnish, Chinese to Czech and Hindi to Hungarian! Under constant update.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3XyHQIvaVk&NR=1
Web address for a clip on teaching the colours of the rainbow

http://www.zapchinese.com/
Learn Chinese online with audio and video lessons - free vocabulary, phrasebook and grammar lessons. All organised under topics. Learn to write Chinese characters by video.

http://kid.chinese.cn/
Confucius Institute online learning materials.

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/
Very good word memory game in this website. It can be used as a self-test and learning material.

http://www.genkichinese.com/
Good songs to learning Chinese.

http://www.semanda.com/
Good flash cards and games.(You can choose to show English or Chinese Hanzi or Pinyin)


Culture

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/
A collection of short video clips on a range of topics

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/china_for_kids.htm
Downloadable resources, printouts, activity sheets for children on a range of topics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/specials/2005/china/
CBBC special on China.

http://k12east.mrdonn.org/China.html
Resources for teachers and pupils, lesson plans for teachers, interactive activities for children

http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/china.html
Ancient China History for kids, projects, teacher's guides and activities.


Children songs

http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=11&t=ec&c=11
Children’s songs and rhymes from China


Online Chinese-English Dictionary

http://www.nciku.com/
Useful online Chi-Eng dictionary, and even more than a dictionary.


Chinese-Pinyin-Character translation

http://www.chinese-tools.com/
It is not only a tool, but also many other things, but don’t give it to student, because there’re sensitive things inside.