Learning Chinese Home Page:   Tips for learning Chinese

   Below are listings of online courses and study aids for learning Chinese.  Almost all lessons have a similar format.  Lessons introduce the basic sounds (phonemes) of the language, pinyin, character strokes and have some very basic dialogues.  The first five to ten lessons of any course cover the same elements and vocabulary.  You can use many of the listings below to reinforce and supplement your lessons at home on line.  

   MP3:  You don't have a Chinese mother to endlessly repeat words and phrases to you but a good proxy is an MP3 player  that never gets tired.  Most of the listings below are in MP3 format so easily downloaded with a right click and can be put on an MP3 player for repeated listening.  Some sites can't be right clicked but getting the audio from your computer  is easy.   If  you use a sound program like Audacity it will get the sound for you.  Audacity is here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/latest/audacity-win/audacity-win-1.2.6.exe.  If you have any trouble email me.

   MP3 files can be played with Mediaplayer, Realplayer and many other players.  A good player for language study is Audacity.  It's free to download.  With Audacity it's easy to pick out parts of a dialogue for repeated listening so  you can focus on pronunciation.  It also has the sound graphed which helps also.  

   Listen on the bus, driving to school, or at the mall.  What you will be doing is burning into memory the sounds and vocabulary that your mother endlessly did for you in English but you don't remember.  You were too young.  Repeated listening will make you fast and fluent with the words you know.   Lessons introduce new vocabulary words and use the prior lessons words.  Developing good weekly study habits will make you remember your words and reduce the difficulty of new lessons.  Good study habits will also reduce the overall study/homework time and make your progress faster.

Example: The vocabulary in lessons on Chinese Tools below parallels Integrated Chinese lessons.  Each lesson has three short dialogues with easy to get audio in MP3 format.  Plug in your MP3 to the computer, right click the site file, and  point the dialogue box to your MP3.  

Any questions or suggestions, write me at the email address on the front page. 

On Line Lessons:                                   

Sounds and Pronunciation:

Dictionaries/Translators

Characters and Radicals

On Line Music: 

Flashcards:

Grammar:

Games/Activities/Exercises

Chinese news in English:

Links: