Chinese Tools and Sources

This page contains links to web sites and pages are related to Chinese learning & teaching. The information is divided into the following categories:

Chinese Computer Software
Chinese Media
Chinese Language Learning over the Internet
Chinese Universities
Chinese Job Opportunities

Unless your system already has Chinese fonts (e.g., MS Song, MS Hei, MingLiu) or universal fonts (e.g., Bitstream Cyberbit) installed, to be able to view the web sites or web pages coded in Chinese, you need to download one of the following Chinese add-on programs. 

• Microsoft Global IME
  MS Global IME (Input Method Editor) enables you  both read and write Chinese characters. Current Microsoft Language Packs allow any language version of Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater to display Chinese characters. With MS Global IME, you can write those characters, too, without using a special keyboard or a different language browser. you can input Chinese text into Microsoft Word 2000 documents, Web forms, and e-mail messages on any language version of Windows 98, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0.
• NJStar Communicator
  This a versatile program designed to enable you to view and input Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) text into any desktop programs of standard English Windows 95/98//ME/NT and Windows 2000 (Mac/Unix not supported).  It also works equally well on Chinese, Japanese and Korean Windows.
• RichWin for Internet
  This is an easy-to-use Chinese add-on program used with any Internet browser to read web pages encoded in the Chinese language. It switches automatically between GB and Big5.   It can also be used to input Chinese.
• Chinese Star
  This add-on Chinese word processing program has a set of beautiful fonts and can be used with most of the English Windows applications.
• Chinese Partner (TwinBridge)
  This program allows you to use Chinese within WordPerfect 6 for Windows.

If you have already installed a Chinese add-on program (one of those listed in the "Chinese Software" section on this page for PCs or Chinese Language Kit for Macs), you will then be able to browse the web sites in Chinese listed in each of the following categories.

• Newspapers
• Magazines
• TV Stations
• Radio Stations
• Movies
• Xinhua News Agency
• Book Companies and Publishers
• Reading for Pleasure in Chinese
• Language Resource Center at UVM

If you want to learn Chinese or brush up your Chinese skills online, try the following web sites.

Chinese Writing and Pronunciation

• Chinese Character Writing Sheets
• Chinese Character Strokes
• Chinese Phonetics
• Chinese Character Flashcards
• Animated Chinese Characters
• Getting a Chinese Name

Listening and Reading in Chinese

• Viewing and Listeing to CCTV Programs
• Chinese Text-to-Speech Synthesis
• Reading for Pleasure in Chinese

Online Chinese Dictionaries

• Chinese Characters Dictionary
• Etymological Chinese-English Dictionary
• English-Chinese Online Dictionary
• Chinese-English Online Dictionary

Online Chinese Courses

• Learning Chinese Online
• Online College of Chinese Language
• Mandarin Course Online
• Conversational Chinese by Dr. Xie

While you are in college, knowing the job market helps you prepare yourself well for the future.

• Catapult JobWeb
• Teach in China
• Jobs in China
• Greater China Job Opportunities

Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Please write to John Jing-hua Yin: jyin@zoo.uvm.edu
Copyright © 1997 Chinese Language Program. All rights reserved.
Created:  November 20, 1997
Last revised: October 12, 2002