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Dekeo: /* Integrated Chinese */

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Integrated Chinese

Dekeo: /* Pinyin */

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Pinyin

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Vocabulary

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Miscellaneous

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Culture

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Culture

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The Backpacker approach

Dekeo: /* Phrases and Conversation */ spelling , punctuation and grammer corrections

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Phrases and Conversation: spelling , punctuation and grammer corrections

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−	The internet is full of sources to learn Chinese. This article gives an overview of the offers and evaluates them. It is a team project by students of the Fall 2011 ~~class~~ "Beginning Chinese I" at Utah Valley University.	+	The internet is full of sources to learn Chinese. This article gives an overview of the offers and evaluates them. It is a team project by students of the Fall 2011 "Beginning Chinese I" class at Utah Valley University.
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	= Integrated Chinese =		= Integrated Chinese =

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		+	The internet is full of sources to learn Chinese. This article gives an overview of the offers and evaluates them. It is a team project by students of the Fall 2011 class "Beginning Chinese I" at Utah Valley University.
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	= Integrated Chinese =		= Integrated Chinese =
	* http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/ICL1P1.htm Integrated Chinese Level 1 Lesson 1 to Lesson 22		* http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/ICL1P1.htm Integrated Chinese Level 1 Lesson 1 to Lesson 22

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 = Integrated Chinese =
 * http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/ICL1P1.htm Integrated Chinese Level 1 Lesson 1 to Lesson 22
-This website provides an array of different Powerpoint slides that accompany each lesson. The best feature about this website are the online exercises. Along with the Powerpoint slides there are exercises where you can build sentences with words provided,which is just like the workbooks. There are also exercises with fill in the blank sentences. It's a great tool and much faster than writing. This site also provides dialogues with sound clips and animated characters so you can learn how to say certain words correctly and write certain characters with the correct stroke order.
+This website provides an array of different Powerpoint slides that accompany each lesson. The best feature about this website is the online exercises. In addition to the Powerpoint slides, there are exercises where you can build sentences with words provided (just like the workbooks). There are also exercises with fill in the blank sentences. It's a great tool, and much faster than writing. This site also provides dialogues with sound clips and animated characters so you can learn how to say certain words correctly and how to write certain characters with the correct stroke order.
 * http://www.language.berkeley.edu/ic/ (Edition 2) MULTIMEDIA EXERCISES by University of California, Berkeley
-Upon entering the homepage you can choose from any of the twenty-two lesson in the Integrated Chinese I Textbook (3rd Edition). You then have the choice between traditional and simplified characters. Once you start you will be asked to read a short dialogue, but the great thing about this website is that you can read the text your self, although there is also the option to listen and read the text; and finally you have the choice to underline any new words in a given dialogue.
+On the homepage you choose from any of the twenty-two lessons in the Integrated Chinese I Textbook (3rd Edition). You then have the choice between traditional and simplified characters. Once you start you will be asked to read a short dialogue. The great thing about this website is that you can read the text your self, although there is also the option to listen and read the text. You also have the choice to underline new words in the dialogues.
 * http://www.integratedchinese.com/ online study material Integrated Chinese
 * http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/pcr/Supplements/Supplement for 101/Supplement1.htm Dr. Xie, CSULB: Supplement 1

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 = Pinyin =
 * A Brief Introduction to Pinyin http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/pcr/soundsys/introtopinyin.htm by Dr Xie, CSULB
-Here you'll find a great resource for beginners. This site is dedicated to pinyin. Words are organized by consonants, vowels, tones, and syllables. By click on each letter you'll hear the the tone.
+Here you'll find a great resource for beginners. This site is dedicated to pinyin. Words are organized by consonants, vowels, tones, and syllables. Click on each letter and you'll hear the tone.
 *Pinyin Practice http://www.pinyinpractice.com/wangzhi/ by University of Iowa,
-This website is fantastic for other studying purposes as well as for pinyin. Once you're on the tone page you can then choose to study by choosing a tone, entering a tone, choosing a tone combination, or entering a tone combination. You have the choice to pick you preferred method of studying. If you select "choose a tone" you will be prompted to simply choose one of the four tones listed below for the pinyin that appears. If you choose to "enter tone" it only varies in that you must enter a number for the corresponding tone and press enter. The same applies to exercises with tone combinations. For all exercises there is the option to include the character.
+This website is fantastic not just for studying pinyin  but for other purposes as well. Once you're on the tone page, you can choose to study by choosing a tone, entering a tone, choosing a tone combination, or entering a tone combination. You have the choice to pick you preferred method of studying. If you select "choose a tone" you will be prompted to choose one of the four tones listed for the pinyin that appears. If you choose "enter tone", you must enter a number for the corresponding tone and press enter.  You do the same thing for the two "tone combinations" exercises. For all exercises, there is the option to include the character.
 *Pinyin song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlNwgyFjhY
-This six minute video can be of great help in pronunciation of single letters and combinations.
+This six minute video helps in learning the pronunciation of single letters and combinations.
 *Pinyin Builder: http://www.language-power.cn/pinyin-builder.html

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 '''Online Flashcard''' for “Integrated Chinese http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/fc-options.php?deck=ic3-1-1 (3rd Ed.), Level 1,Part 1, by Yellow Bridge
-The Online Flascard is a great resource. It may not look as modern as Skritter, but it truly has interesting features.  On the Language tab found on the left you'll find nine sections that provide different study guides. Of the nine I picked the ones I felt were the easiest tools for studying.
+The Online Flashcard is a great resource. It may not look as modern as Skritter, but it truly has some interesting features.  On the Language tab, found on the left, you'll find nine sections that provide different study guides. Out of these nine sections, these six are the ones I felt were the easiest tools for studying.
 '''The Chinese-English Talking Dictionary'''

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 = Miscellaneous =
 * Works of other students http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/student_page.htm by EALC, USC
 * Translation Software 金山词霸 http://cp.iciba.com/
 * Purple Culture http://www.purpleculture.net/index.asp – free tools (Dictionary, Character to Pinyin Converter, Vocabulary List Generator, Traditional/Simplified Converter, Online Chinese Input System, Handwriting Input, Chinese Flashcards, Chinese Seal Generator, Editing and Polishing Service)

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 = Culture =
-* Chinese Festivals http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/heritage/festivals/index.jhtml this site provides a list of festivals, and the corresponding dates, that the Chinese people celebrate. If you click on any festival listed, you are taken to a page of background information about the festival.
+* Chinese Festivals http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/heritage/festivals/index.jhtml  This site provides a list of festivals, and the corresponding dates, that the Chinese people celebrate. If you click on any festival listed, you are taken to a page of background information about the festival.
-* CHINESE NEW YEAR LANTERN FESTIVAL http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/khsu2/MainPage.html, Online Exercises on Grammar and Vocabulary, by Kylie Hsu, CSULA, Chinese Way to Go,
+* CHINESE NEW YEAR LANTERN FESTIVAL http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/khsu2/MainPage.html,  Online Exercises on Grammar and Vocabulary, by Kylie Hsu, CSULA, Chinese Way to Go,
 * http://www.chinesewaytogo.org/ by Emily Yih

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 = The Backpacker approach =
-* Chinese Phrases for Travelers http://chinese.travel-way.net/, Sexy Beijing ttp://sexybeijing.tv/new/default.aspx, by Anna Sophie Loewenberg, China the Beautiful http://personal.kenyon.edu/bai/vcsc.htm by Pei Minglong, Survival Chinese – Lost Laowai http://www.lostlaowai.com/learn-chinese/basic-mandarin/survival-chinese,
+* Chinese Phrases for Travelers http://chinese.travel-way.net/
-Video Clips of Survival Chinese http://personal.kenyon.edu/bai/vcsc.htm This site provides some good dialogues that are probably good examples of situations you may encounter in China. Although you have to download software to use it, there is an annotated transcript that you can read instead. This transcript is only written in Chinese characters. Some dialogues can be harder than others, so people with different levels of Chinese will probably find this site helpful. After watching the video clips or reading the transcript, there are questions provided with an answer key that help you to further understand what you read or watched.
+*Sexy Beijing http://sexybeijing.tv/new/default.aspx, by Anna Sophie Loewenberg
 * Danwei www.danwei.org - Chinese media, advertising, and urban life

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 = Phrases and Conversation =
-* Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm, Level I (Fifteen Units in Pinyin, English, Characters and Exercises with sound), by Tim Xie, CSULB, this site allows you to choose a topic in Chinese and learn more about that vocabulary. There are three parts to a topic, part one, you listen and read a sentence in Chinese. Part two helps you to change and modify that sentence. Part three tests to see what you learned.
+* Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm, Level I (Fifteen Units in Pinyin, English, Characters and Exercises with sound), by Tim Xie, CSULB.
 Real People on Real Topics http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Mll/Chinese/BBVideo/index.htm, by Jianhua Bai
 = The Backpacker approach =