Learn Basic Mandarin: The basic Mandarin Toolkit

[Anonymous]

Wow. This seems like an interesting toolkit. Thank you for sharing.

[Anonymous]

This website is has several matching games. The player has to match the English word to Mandarin word. Once a student clicks on the square on the bottom it says the English word. If the student clicks on the square on top, it says the Mandarin word. The students are able to choose from restaurants, family, greeting , jobs, time, weather, transportation, or directions. I have to admit, I tested out the website myself and I was highly entertained. Early finishers can work on the site and learn how to speak simple words or phrases. Another option would be putting the link in my class webpage and letting them practice for homework. Students will love it.

http://chinese-ilab.com/games/index.html
edited by malvarenga on 5/23/2015

[Anonymous]

This is a great site for an audience of all ages to learn Mandarin. The home page has the following sections:

• The Chinese Language- A guide to learning the Chinese Language
• Chinese for children
• School Chinese
• BBC free lessons and courses
• Chinese Pronunciation
• Writing Chinese Character
• Chinese News, Tv, and Radio
• Chinese phrases

I really enjoyed the section on “Writing Chinese Characters” . It has a game called “the writing game” which teaches how to write characters step-by-step. It makes it easier because it shows line by line on a grid. Students can choose between easy, medium, and hard levels. They can use lifelines to help them write the characters and/or turn off the grid for a higher difficulty level. Another of my favorite sections was the “school section” . It was extremely helpful. Im definitely bookmarking this site. It has lots do know and learn in the process.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/
edited by malvarenga on 5/24/2015

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

This 14 minute video features Sonia Gil, a traveler who lived in Shangai. She is not a native speaker but introduces viewers to common phrases used by travelers. The first words she teaches is Zhe'ge and Na'ge, which mean this and that. As she talks, the words pop onto the screen in Chinese and English. I like this video because I learned basic words within a few days. My six year old daughter also watches the video with me and helps me pronounce words and take notes.

The video breaks words down slowly and explains how important "tone" is in Chinese. The focus is how to survive in a restaurant, hotel, or cab.
Here some words that are mentioned in this video-
Zhe'ge Kafei This coffee
Na' ge Kafei That coffee
Wo yao I want
Wo bu yao I dont want
Wo yao na'ge I want that
Wo yao shui I want water
Bing shui cold water
Jiudian Hotel
Faindian Restaurant

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing this one. I enjoyed perusing this site and found it very useful for myself and students. The Chinese character game is fun very several reasons. 1- Each character has its on guide explaining how to pronounce it.
2- There is a feature that allows you to here the tones in either a male or female voice.
3- You can learn at your own pace. There are several options "start," "show me," and "try."
I selected start, show me, and then try for characters one to seven. The program wrote out the character for me using a calligraphy style brush. I was able to study it for a few seconds. Then I tried to re-produce the same character with a drawing tool. Once I put in my drawing, then it was transposed onto the actual character so that I could see any discrepancies. I learned a great deal from this website.

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