Mandarin scholarship students in Taiwan generally need to learn Bopomofo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ), the standard phonetic system used in Taiwan to teach Mandarin. It is also known as Zhuyin fuhao, jhuyin, Bopomo, Mandarin Phonetic Symbols and MPS! Confusing no?

I was browsing shuflies.blogspot.com, and came across a great online Bopomofo resource.

It has been setup on a Quiz based web application called Quizlet. Its stated mission:

“…to make learning vocabulary not a chore.”

The Bopomofo Quizlet has a few games which match English letters to the Bopomofo/Zhuyin symbols. It also has free Bopomofo flashcards.

There’s no audio but if you’d like to listen to Bopomofo/Zhuyin audio files visit this blog.

If you’re looking for Bopomofo learning software have a look at this post:

Learn Zhuyin fuhao/BoPoMoFo software

For those of you using Practical Audio Visual Chinese, which is the most commonly used Mandarin text book in Taiwan, you may be interested in the flash cards available at truant.net/flashcards.

They have traditional characters, Zhuyin (BoPoMoFo), Hanyu pinyin and English. There are DIY Print-Cut-Use Flashcards available for download. I downloaded the Practical Audio Visual Chinese Book 1 sample and laminated them. I found the flashcards very useful during my first few months. I didn’t purchase a set because my language center does not use Practical Audio Visual Chinese.

For those of you who use prefer to use a computer or hand held device, truant.net also offers ready to use Virtual Flashcards.

If you’re interested you can read a review of Practical Audio Visual Chinese here.