DISCOVERING CHINA

As a starting point. head to the Chinese-Language-Related Information Page, maintained by Carlos McEvilly.

Here you will find an Audio Tutorial of Survival Chinese and a Chinese Learning Program, that looks useful for teachers. The Audio Tutorial is great fun. Just click on a phrase and hear phrases spoken in Chinese.

A site which contains a Chinese Etymological Chinese - English Dictionary is produced by Rick Harbaugh at the University of Pittsburg. He writes that:

"This unusual dictionary uses charts and explanations to show the close relationships between Chinese characters. While Chinese characters are often thought of as overly complex, in fact they are all derived from about 200 simple pictographs and ideographs (these wen are more fundamental than bushous) in ways that are usually quite logical and easy to remember."