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Language Resources

• Textbook Audio Files
• Online Dictionaries
• Pinyin Basics and Practice
• Characters (dictionary and fan-jian conversion)
• Integrated Chinese Companions
• Materials for Advanced Learners
• Comprehensive Resources
• UCD Chinese Computing Labs

Resources of Literature, Culture, and Society

Language Resources

Textbook Audio Files

• The accompanying sound files of textbooks are available online based at the Language Learning Center (click on Course Materials then Continue; UCD loginID and Kerberos password required)

Online Dictionaries

• Chinese-English English-Chinese Dictionary (based at Indiana University)
• MDBG Chinese-English dictionary (with other useful learning tools)
• Zhongwen.com (Chinese to English dictionary and other resources)
• Chinese Characters Dictionary (by Chineselanguage.org)
• Guoyu Cidian (by the Mandarin Promotion Committee in Taiwan. Ideal for classical Chinese students)
• Guoyu Cidian 1998 Edition (the layout of this one is clearer than the 2003 edition)

Pinyin

• Pinyin Basics (with sound files)
• Pinyin Practice (practical tool Mandarin learners in all levels)
• Chinese Pronunciation Guide (by Wenze Hu)

Characters

• http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm (Characters genealogy and dictionary)
• Tutor for simplified-traditional character conversion (by Prof. Cecilia Chu et al of UC Berkeley)

Integrated Chinese Companions

• IC-1 multimedia exercises (by Ying Yang of UC Berkeley, very helpful but accessible only in Internet Explorer)
• Animated characters writing with highlight radicals and sound (by South California Univ.)
• Vocabulary trainer (by Dmitry Chirkin)
• IC-1 Vocabulary PowerPoint Files (by Mindy Zhang and Julia Kessel)
• Textbook sentence patterns (by Mary Jacob of UC Davis)
• The textbook serials homepage with comprehensive recourses for IC learners (by Prof. Tao-chung Yao of Univ. of Hawaii)

Materials For Advanced Learners

• SCOLA Insta Class ("News for Language Learning" with video and audio files as well as English translation. Audio and text files can be downloaded to your computer. New files are added weekly. Ask your teacher or Language Lab stuff for login info)
• Links to Chinese newspapers (created by Chinese instructors of Univ. of Michigan)
• Deutsche Welle (a site where you can listen to and read the daily Chinese news about China)
• Links to Internet Chinese libraries etc (novels or stories can be easily found through those links. Collected by by Dr. Tianwei Xie of CSU, Long Beach)

Comprehensive Learning and Research Resources

• Learning Chinese Online (by Prof. Tianwei Xie of CSU, Long Beach)
• China Links (redoubtable list of resources in Chinese language, linguistics, literature, culture etc. by Prof. Marjorie Chan of OSU)
• China Programs (Learn to speak Chinese in China)

UCD Chinese Computing Labs

• Labs available to use TODAY (not reserved by any classes)
• UCD Language Learning Center (LLC,18A Olson Hall)

Resources of Literature, Culture, and Society

• Chinese Classics (with annotations in English, by Rick Harbaugh)
• Culture of China (Wikipedia)
• Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization (prepared by Patricia B. Ebrey of ???)
• Modern Chinese Literature (collections by Kirk Denton)
• China Internet Information Center (by China's government)
• Taiwan Government Information Office
• Hong Kong Wonder Net