Posts filed under ‘Grammar/Mandarin’
Language resources (Mandarin)
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Practice your Mandarin conversational skills here! More than just a free online Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionary, nciku is an illustrated and interactive learning resource packed with over 3 million entries, rich educational content, and innovative features.
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A website with grammar for learners of Mandarin. Includes audio!
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A website with some excellent resources for learners of Mandarin. Includes audio!
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A website with some excellent dialogues for learners of Mandarin. Includes audio!
Language resources (practice your Grammar, Pronunciation, & Vocabulary)
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Practice vocabulary, the alphabet and numbers, in the language of your choice. Place your cursor over an image or text to hear it pronounced aloud.
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“Welcome to Learning Chocolate! This web site aims to help students to memorize vocabulary in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games. Try our games and enjoy learning, like eating chocolate.”
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Includes Sounds, Stress, Intonation.
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English language pronunciation practice with minimal pairs - simply mouse over to hear
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This excellent website includes interactive quizzes to test your knowledge of and help you learn about English pronunciation.
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A free online Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation
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Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others by recording your pronunciations in your own language.
Language resources (German, Italian, Mandarin)
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Chinese Grammar Aids and Lessons, Chinese Culture, Test your level of Chinese!
Learning Mandarin
If you’re learning Chinese Mandarin, there’s a blog out there you might be interested in.
According to the author, “I help my readers learn Chinese words, phrases and show them how to make syntactically correct sentences. I encourage my readers to sing Chinese songs and repeat the words and phrases in an enjoyable way. In fact, I am the author of “Learn Chinese through Songs and Rhymes”, a book that incorporates 40 songs and rhymes to support the Mandarin language instructions.”
Check out Learn Chinese Weekly to start learning!
Grammar / Listening / Reading resources
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Electronic Books Online: Public Domain Texts
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“Welcome to our online newspaper pages, featuring online news, magazines, journals and other electronic print formats from countries all over the world!”
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Internet Radio and TV News – Listen to online radio news and information and practice your language!“Welcome to our online radio pages, featuring a listing of online news radio, talk, information programs, and music programs featuring music in the native language to practice your understanding of foreign languages.”
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“Welcome to our online radio pages, featuring a listing of online news radio, talk, information programs, and music programs featuring music in the native language to practice your understanding of foreign languages.”
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“We have gathered together here a number of free French language lessons and language courses for those learning French, along with some other French language resources, such as French online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets, dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.”
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“We have gathered together here a number of free German language lessons and language courses for those learning German, along with some other German language resources, such as German online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets.”dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.
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Easy learning French resources. Includes a very good verb table!
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Easy Learning Dictionary Resources – German
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Online resources for learning German. Includes German crosswords to print out or complete online, & other interactive language exercises
8 Mistakes To Avoid When Learning Chinese
Here are 8 mistakes to avoid when learning Chinese (Mandarin), according to The China Expat.
In Mistake #6, the author recommends Integrated Chinese as a good source for learning Chinese. May I remind students that we have the whole series of Integrated Chinese (Texts, workbooks, and audio files) available from the Library as well as the Self study room. To find out more, simply grab a brochure as you come into the Resource Centre, or ask to speak to the Librarian in Room 210.
Happy studying 
