Chinese Resources

Textbook Audio Files:

http://stream.mcl.uconn.edu/
You may access all lab audio files for your textbook via this password-protected server. You will need a computer with Internet access and the user name and password provided by your instructor.

Bihua Project:

http://www.colby.edu/lrc/studio/chinese/
Hanzi Bihua Daoxie, or "Bihua Project" for short, is a collaborative, resource development project designed to help students of the Chinese language learn how to write Chinese characters (hanzi). It is a search engine that returns links to quicktime movies that demonstrate stroke order, along with embedded native speaker pronunciation, and English subtitles.

About.com's Chinese Language and Culture Site

http://www.chinese.about.com/
This site has links to many language and culture sites for students of Chinese overseen by a guide who maintains the links and supplies informative articles. Your site guides and chat moderator maintains a bio online so that you can check out his/her expertise - and you can email him/her your questions or comments. You may find the pop-up advertisements more than annoying, and will have to close them out each time you go to a new link.

Chinese-English Etymological Dictionary

http://zhongwen.com
This web site and its associated printed dictionary present a series of zipu or "character genealogies" which show graphically the close interconnections between over 4000 characters according to theShuowen Jiezi and subsequent research by traditional etymologists.

Marjorie Chan's China Links

http://chinalinks.osu.edu
Professor Chan has provided the student of Chinese with annotated links to over six hundred China- and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites (and a few ftp and gopher sites).