Posted by
kang-wei on Monday, October 20th 2008
Mandarin Scholarship students who have taken the Test Of Proficiency-Huayu (TOP) would know that resources are very limited.
For the Beginner level, introduced in 2007, there is only one Mock Test booklet (2007) and a list of 800 words for beginners (2008, PDF 280kb).
In Taipei, the Mock Test booklet can be purchased at Lucky [...]
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Posted by
kang-wei on Sunday, October 12th 2008
Nciku is basically an online Chinese-English dictionary and is a great tool for Mandarin scholarship students. I had a look at it a while ago and came to the conclusion that it was a social networking dictionary. You can sign up and interact with others in the nciku community, as you look up new [...]
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Posted by
kang-wei on Sunday, June 22nd 2008
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.
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Posted by
kang-wei on Monday, June 9th 2008
A team of developers supported by Michigan State University and the Office of the Chinese Language Council International have spent the past few years piecing together Zon — a browser-based virtual world wherein users can learn the Mandarin Chinese language.
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Posted by
kang-wei on Saturday, June 7th 2008
Mandarin scholarship students preparing to come to Taiwan may find the online Beginning Chinese Language course, form the University of California, useful because it uses bopomofo and traditional characters.
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Posted by
kang-wei on Tuesday, May 6th 2008
This book is available in Taiwan. The Lady in Painting is avwell-known chinese folktale retold here within the limits of an elementary 300 character vocabulary. It has Yale and Pinyin romanization with Traditional characters. It’s an excellent text for those beginning to learn Chinese. As there really aren’t a huge amount of decent reading resources for beginners I think it’s worth a look. Although it is expensive.
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