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Learning Chinese - A Foundation Course in Mandarin 

The general principles of this text is to provide a comprehensive resource for the foundation levels of Chinese language that separates the learning of oral skills from literary (the former being transcribed in pinyin, and the latter in characters). This resource contains the complete online version of the text in four parts

 

 

 

Elementary Chinese I  (Open Textbook from Michigan State University)

"This open textbook is designed for those who are learning Chinese as a second/foreign language in their first semester. It has eight chapters, covering topics including a brief introduction about the Chinese language, greetings, and self-introduction, hobbies, nationalities, family members and occupations, inviting friends to dinner, talking about food and beverage, making phone calls, and talking about classes and exams."

 

 

 

Elementary Chinese II (Open Textbook from Michigan State University)

This open textbook is designed for those who are learning Chinese as a second/foreign language in their second semester. It has six chapters, covering topics including describing school life, shopping in stores and online, transportation means, reporting weather and climates, ordering foods, and asking and giving directions.

 

 

 

 

Mandarin Chinese Learning Blog for Children Aged 5-12

("Language reflects how we experience the world, and it allows us to make connections with others. For children, they get to enjoy all the wonders of the world for the very first time. Even in their mother tongue, they may not always know the words to explain the new things that they see, hear, smell, touch, and taste. Sense is a wonderful method to stimulate language learning.")

 

 

Chinese III (Regular) | Global Studies and Languages | MIT OpenCourseWare 

"This is the third of the four courses (Chinese I through IV) in MIT's regular (non-streamlined) Chinese curriculum.

The four make use of the textbook, _Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course in Mandarin_ (unpublished, but available online), to which are added various supporting materials as needs arise. The foundation level covers core grammar, linguistic culture, basic conversation, the principles of the writing system, and elementary reading. Reading is primarily in the simplified character set that is the standard on the Mainland, but also in the traditional set that is still standard in Taiwan and many overseas communities. All four subjects in the foundation level are (Chinese I and II) or soon will be (Chinese IV) available on OCW.

Students who have advanced through Chinese I and II to reach this level, as well as those entering at Chinese III, should review at least the late material in Chinese II before proceeding. To facilitate review, as well as to orient students who are new to these materials, highlights from all the units in Chinese I and II and a list of the characters formally introduced in Character lessons 1-6 are included in the [readings](/courses/21g-103-chinese-iii-regular-fall-2005/pages/readings) section of this course. ### Chinese Sequence on OCW OpenCourseWare now offers a complete sequence of four Chinese language courses, covering beginning to intermediate levels of instruction at MIT. They can be used not just as the basis for taught courses, but also for self-instruction and elementary-to-intermediate review. "

 

Assignments:

This section features the daily assignments for the course. All the assignments rely heavily on texts available in the readings section as well as audio files available in the study materials section. For Part 1, all review materials from Chinese II can be found either in the readings section or in 21G.102/21G.152.

 

 

 

CHINESE:

ELEMENTARY MANDARIN 1 TEXTBOOK(from LibreTexts)

Includes Chinese Grammar

 

 

ELEMENTARY MANDARIN I -- POLLEY

("This course is designed for learners with no background in Chinese. It introduces basic structures of the Mandarin Chinese language with emphasis on listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students will gain these four skills in standard Mandarin Chinese, attaining approximately the Novice-High level on the ACTFL-ETS (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) proficiency scale. Topics of conversation include basic greetings, names, family, work, study, and hobbies.")

 

 

CHINESE MANDARIN WIKIBOOK

("Welcome to the Chinese wikibook, a free Chinese textbook on the Standard Mandarin dialect. This page links to lessons using simplified characters (used in mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia). There is also a Traditional Character Version available (used in Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong).")

 

 

CHINESE -- SPEECH ACTS IN FILM

Author(s):  Xuehua Xiang

Publication Type:  Online (Website)

Year:  2016

Learn Online:  https://sites.google.com/site/calperfilms

("Speech Acts in Films is a site where students of Mandarin Chinese learn to examine, understand, and practice social language through the medium of film. The primary audience of the materials are low-advanced and advanced learners who completed approximately two years of language instruction. The materials have been developed for blended-learning environments, but can also be used for self-study, or as supplemental materials in traditional instructional settings.

Speech acts are typically considered to be utterances with a performative function in a communicative situation. Which means a person utters something in order to do something or in order to have an effect on somebody. Common speech acts include asking, apologizing, explaining, discussing, greeting, ordering, persuading and many more. Proficiency in another language includes knowledge of speech acts.

In the materials on this site, we developed exercises, activities, explanations and worksheet for learners to practice speech acts through the content of four rich and entertaining Chinese films. Among other objectives, students will learn how to:

  • write a film synopsis
  • write a depiction in poetic style
  • compare and contrast
  • talk about differences and change-of-states
  • greet casually
  • request help and respond to requests for help
  • apologize and receive apology
  • persuade someone")

 

 

 

CLT GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT -- MANDARIN CHINESE

Author(s):  Xuehua Xiang

Publication Type:  Online (Website)

Year:  2016

Learn Online:  https://sites.google.com/site/calperadverbs/

Grammar in Context are online materials for high-intermediate, low-advanced and advanced learners of Mandarin Chinese.
Grammar in Context includes Learn—Practice—Self-check and Vocabulary Support for 16 commonly used particles in Mandarin Chinese. The units can be used in blended learning environments, for self-study, and traditional classroom settings.

 

 

CALPERLEX CHINESE -- DESIGNED BY PENN STATE UNIVERSITY

("CALPERLEX is a series of worksheets that teachers can use in their course to explore language through corpus analysis. Teachers can find single lexical items or contrasting lexical pairs or routine expressions presented in form of concordance lines.

The "problem set" can be printed out and used in the classroom. They can also be used by individual learners for self-study.")

Publication File(s):  CALPERLEX Chinese YIZHI_SHIZHONG.pdf CALPERLEX Chinese ZAOCHENG_XINGCHENG.pdf

 

 

 

Exercises in Reading Chinese  (University of Kansas)

("This is a collection of exercises created to help students learn Chinese. The students read a passage and then answer questions regarding what they read.")

 

 

Tone Perfect: Multimodal Database for Mandarin Chinese

MANDARIN CHINESE
tone.lib.msu.edu

"Michigan State's Tone Perfect is an award-winning database that catalogs nearly 10,000 audio files of "monosyllabic sounds in Mandarin Chinese." As a "tonal language," in Mandarin Chinese the pronunciation of words is extremely important. 

 

For instance, the site gives the example of "ma," a word that means "mother," "hemp," "horse," or "scold," depending on one's tonal inflection. 

 

The four audio recordings on the Home page demonstrate this difference and demonstrate to users how the site's audio clips operate. The Home page also embeds two one-minute introductory videos that welcome visitors to the collection. The collection itself is available on the Browse page. Audio is recorded by six native Mandarin speakers, and audio recordings are tagged accordingly (e.g., FV1 represents "Female Voice 1" and MV2 represents "Male Voice 2").  

 

Tone Perfect was created by Catherine Ryu of Michigan State University's Department of Linguistics and Languages. 

 

To view similar projects, and undertakings that have relied on Ryu's data, check out the Related Projects page."

 

I am most grateful to the Internet Scout Report -- U WISCONSIN MADISON (5/7/2021) for showcasing the above resource.

 

 

 

Ting Yi Ting:Listening Makes Perfect  (University of Kansas)

("The acquisition of lexical tone is often cited by Anglophone learners of Mandarin Chinese as the most daunting hurdle in learning the spoken language.  Indeed, the challenges of lexical tones, in addition to the opaque writing system, contribute significantly to the classification of Mandarin Chinese as one of the most difficult for English speakers to learn.  

In addition to tones, English speakers also struggle with specific phonemic distinctions that are not present in English. 

The situation is complicated by the use of the Hanyu Pinyin system of Romanization, which was originally designed to promulgate standardized pronunciation among native speakers, not for use in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. 

Some of the spelling conventions of Hanyu Pinyin, particularly the spelling of rimes, have been shown to cause confusion for learners and even to negatively impact pronunciation.  

When mastered, Hanyu Pinyin is a highly useful tool that enables learners to look up new words in a bilingual dictionary, to type Chinese characters, and to read and pronounce the names of unfamiliar people and places. 

However, because instruction in Pinyin is not communicative in nature, and extensive work would use valuable class time, it is usually given scant attention as a learning tool.   Ting Yi Ting (Listening Makes Perfect) is an online guide that enables learners to hear and identify phonemic categories in Mandarin, including lexical tones, in a variety of phonetic contexts, and to associate those phonemes with correct Pinyin orthography. 

The project presents a new approach that is specifically geared toward native speakers of English and includes extensive audio examples and computer-graded comprehension checks.")

 

 

Chinese Rhetoric and Writing: An Introduction for Language Teachers

The authors of Chinese Rhetoric and Writing offer a response to the ..

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Subject:
Languages

Material Type:
Textbook

Provider:
WAC Clearinghouse

Authors:
Andy Kirkpatrick and 
Zhichang Xu

Date Added:
03/05/2015




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