Topics: Language: Chinese >> Recommended Websites

Animated Chinese Characters
(www.ocrat.com/ocrat/chargif/numbers.html)
This page, part of the Kenyon College site listed above, shows the order of strokes in writing Chinese numbers. Teachers and students may want to use it as a resource to accompany the practice pages provided within the Teaching Unit Chinese Calligraphy.

Audio Tutorial of Basic Chinese
(www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/teachers.htm)
Hear short, basic phrases for the classroom spoken by a native speaker.

Learning Chinese Online
(www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm)
A comprehensive resource for all aspects of learning Chinese. Includes information on the software to download for the display of Chinese characters. For calligraphy demonstrations, click on "Characters" and on "Animated Characters" for a demonstration of the order of the strokes in a character.

Chinese Language Information Page
(www.webcom.com/~bamboo/chinese/chinese.html)
A starting point for searching numerous Web sites on Chinese language teaching and learning. There are lots of links to follow here but among other things they will lead to university courses and resources on Chinese, Chinese-language teaching organizations, publications, and suggestions for software programs to use for Chinese character recognition.

Chinese Calligraphy [A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization]
(depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/callig/callmain.htm)
Examines the tradition and history of the art of calligraphy in Chinese culture. Covering the types of calligraphic script; techniques of transmission; calligraphy during the Six Dynasties Period; Tang Dynasty calligraphy; and calligraphy in China today.

 
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