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Posted on | September 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
How to Study Chinese Guide (460)
Free Chinese language study guide available for download in pdf format. This useful guide covers topics such as learning strategies, learning styles, maintaining motivation, overcoming barriers, memorizing vocabulary, and other issues in the study of Mandarin. Now freely available online with hard copies available at our Chinese language school in Beijing. Tell all your friends!
Free Chinese language study guide available for download in pdf format. This useful guide covers topics such as learning strategies, learning styles, maintaining motivation, overcoming barriers, memorizing vocabulary, and other issues in the study of Mandarin. Now freely available online with hard copies available at our Chinese language school in Beijing. Tell all your friends!
CHINESE CHARACTER WRITING COMPETITION – TOP FINALISTS
Posted on | September 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This past week we had a chinese character writing competition among our students at school. Students were allowed to write either a short essay, or just characters from their new vocabulary list from their lessons. After our students had submitted their entries, teachers and fellow students were given the opportunity to vote for which student had the best written characters.
Congratulations to Ruth for taking first place!
For those who are looking to improve their Chinese character writing, one of the most important aspects is understanding the stroke order of Chinese characters. If you’re unsure of how a character should be written, most online Chinese-English dictionaries will have an animation of how particular characters should be written.
The two most popular among our students is nciku and MDBG, which both show the stroke order of characters.
On nciku, you can see the stroke order of a character by clicking on the button to the right.
For MDBG, the stroke order feature isn’t as obvious, but you can access it by clicking on the yellow brush image to the left of the character.
If you have any other tips that have helped you learn and write Chinese characters, please do share them in the comments!
LEARNING CHINESE THROUGH LISTENING – STREAM CHINESE TV DRAMAS ONLINE
Posted on | September 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
The three mantras that seem to be drilled into any student trying to learn the Chinese language is: “多看, 多说, 多听” (duo4kan4, duo4shuo4, duo4ting1), meaning: “read a lot, speak a lot, and listen a lot”, of Chinese that is.Moving to China to live or study is one way to practice these three directives, however, probably not an option everyone can take. One other way to help with your Chinese learning is to pick up a Chinese TV drama to follow, and I’ve heard many-a-story of friends learning to speak Chinese, or a dialect of Chinese by watching a Chinese TV series.
Fortunately, there are many options and methods of finding Chinese TV shows to follow online, and which also allow you to stream the shows online for free as well.
MySoju.com and YellowCinema.com are two popular websites that are solely dedicated to streaming Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) TV dramas online, and let you browse through shows by popularity.
Check out each of these website’s Mainland TV Drama sections:
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ZHONGWEN: A CHINESE POP UP TRANSLATOR FOR CHROME
Posted on | August 18, 2010 | 2 Comments
Here’s another one for all you Chinese-learning Google Chrome users out there- this follows suit after our previous post about thePerapera-kun Chinese translator plugin for Firefox. Likewise, Zhongwen is a Google Chrome extension that brings up pop-up translations of Chinese characters and words from webpages that you are browsing.
The Zhongwen plugin translates both traditional and simplified Chinese characters into English, and uses the popular CEDICT Chinese English dictionary to do so. Most importantly, it also shows the Hanyu Pinyin along both the simplified and traditional characters.
Installing the Zhongwen plugin is quite a bit easier than the Perapera-kun plugin. All you need to do is navigate to the Zhongwen plugin page and click install; no separate dictionary file installation is required. Activating the plugin for use just requires you to click the plugin button in your browser, and mousing over Chinese characters will automatically call the translation popup to show.
To get started with the Zhongwen Extension:
1. Get the Google Chrome browser
2. Install the Zhongwen Extension
Happy surfing!
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