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Professor Diane Tedick provides this info:

Hi all—

In case you haven’t heard about these:

The Confucius Institute at Michigan State has developed a number of online Chinese resources:

http://confucius.msu.edu/resources.htm

the University of Maryland’s National Foreign Language Center has developed a website to help high school students learn to read Chinese and to provide support for teachers:

http:/www.nflc.org/projects/current_projects/used_chinese_los

An index of Chinese characters for downloading can be found at:

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc.htm

Hope you find them useful.

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Beijing Olympics site

Hi everyone,

This is the official Beijing Olympics site with a lot of info:
http://en.beijing2008.cn/

There are both English and Chinese versions. They also have Olympics trivia, pictures, news, and videos about the Olympics and tourist places in Beijing.

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China blog list.org

This is a list of blogs in Chinese written by learners of Chinese as foreign language. Some are really fun to read!
http://www.chinabloglist.org/csl/

Here's an example:
大斋节
今天是肥美星期二（好�?也翻译�?肥肥的星期二），明天是圣�?�节，是大斋节第一日。圣�?�节和�?�难节那两个节日基�?�徒必须得�?食。

那两天除了海鲜，任何肉类都�?能�?��?。还有，在那两个节日的时候一天�?�能�?�一顿饭。早�?�?�?��?�?�能�?�一些。大斋节期间的�?个周五也�?能�?�肉产�?，�?过那天�?象圣�?�节和�?�难节�?食。

我估计今年�?�人基�?�徒过圣�?�节有一点困难。今年圣�?�节也是春节�??�?一日，农历里�?��?�除夕。除夕晚上有�?少�?�人跟家庭团员�?�一顿很大的晚�?，�?过基�?�徒�?�能分享无肉的�?�。

记�?：除夕的 “除�? 和 �?一�?�?二�?�?三的 “�?�? 是两个�?�?�的�?。�?少人认为它们是一个�?。请�?�?那样以为。谢谢。

按照教堂规定，�?�有21至59�?之间的基�?�徒必须�?食。孕妇和病人�?�以�?�?食。而且，圣�?�节和�?�难节的时候�?能�?便�?��?�?�。�?时�?一些饮料是�?�以的。

自从我�?�大陆以�?�，�?年大斋节的周日�?圣�?�节�?�?�难节，我得�??�?解释为什么有时候�?能�?�肉。因此我就写这篇文章。希望从今往�?��?�以安安�?��?�地�?�我的海鲜，�?用回答�?�样的问题，哈哈。

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Rutgers Chinese

Hi everyone,

This is the Rutgers Chinese learning site. The novice level dialogues are traditional dialogues, but the intermediate and advanced levels are authentic texts--so maybe it suits advanced students more.

http://chinese.rutgers.edu/content_cs.htm

This is for example one of the texts about Chinese names:--although I'm thinking whether this is too difficult because of the vocabulary. What do you think?

相对欧美严格的�?��??制度，中国人的�?��??方法就�?�活多了。中国人往往把希望寄托
在孩�?的�??字上，而且�??字还常常�??映了历�?�的�?��?，社会的�?�展以�?�政治背景。如果把
有典型特徵的中国人�??汇集一下，足�?�以从中获得�?少感性资料。

先从乳�??说起。大多�?�到父�?或祖父�?钟爱的孩�?，都会有一个乳�??。其中“�?�?�?�?
“�?�?�?�?“�?乖�?�?“毛毛�? 之类相当普�??。

�?说学�??。旧时儿童一上学，就应有个正�?学�??了。学�??的�??堂相当多，有人用房屋
的结构�??称给男孩�?��??，望其�?�??，于是先後育出了“�?�?�?�?“�?栋�?�?“�?柱�?等
兄弟。

在大陆，人们给女孩�?��??字，以往总喜欢选用“淑�?�?“贤�?�?“贞�?�?“莲�?等
字。到了五�??年代末“大跃进�?，中国政府决心在几年之内在�?济上超过英国�?美国等�?�
达国家。从“超英�?，“超美�?，“跃进�?等�??字中，�?用问人们马上就知�?�这些人出生
的年代。六�??年代，文化大�?�命的强劲东风�?�把“�?�东�?，“文�?��?等�?�得家喻户晓。

当然也有许多�??字与政治和社会�?�展无关。大部分中国人希望自己孩�?的�??字�?仅念
起�?�好�?�，�?�义好，而且�?��?会与他人�??字�?�?。越�?�越多的中国人�?�到了良好的教育，
多数家庭�?��?�有一个孩�?，所有父�?都希望他们“�?�?�?的�??字最动�?�。�?�时孩�?的�??
字�?�从�?�一方�?��??映了父�?的知识水平，所以很多父�?都在起�??的“竞赛�?中拼�??。

�?�?�社会的�?�展，人们已�?�?�?�传统�?维方�?的�?�缚，在追求个性的�?�时，也希望
自己的�??字独具一格。中国的传统文化和文字的丰富�?�义，使中国人�??显得多姿多采。

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youcube

Hi everyone,

This is the Chinese version of youtube, with a lot more stuff in Chinese:
http://www.youku.com/

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China the beautiful

This is a great website named "China the beautiful", great for learning about Chinese culture:

http://chinapage.com/main2.html

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children's tales--flash

Hi Huizhu and all,

This is a site with many children's tales with flash.

http://www.61flash.com/flash/4191.htm

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Learning Chinese online

This is a great site with links to many useful websites of Chinese learning!

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm

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