Walt's Chinese Page
This page lists some resources for use with the textbook Integrated
Chinese (IC) by Yao et al.
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Wall poster of Chinese radicals, in several formats:
This was sized for an 11" x 17" wall poster but is legible
on normal size paper, no problem. They are GIF (picture) files, so
use whatever settings are needed in your favorite picture viewer to
print them out in the size you want. |
| Adapted from Integrated Chinese Character Workbook, 2nd Edition. ©2004, 1997 Tai Chun
Yao, Yuehua Liu, Jeffrey J. Hayden, Xiaojun Wang,Yea-fen Chen, Liangyan
Ge, Nyan-ping Bi & Yaohua Shi. Adapted with permission; all rights reserved. |
NEW: Random
dates and times for practice
translating into Chinese.
Printable flashcards for the IC textbook, Level 1 Part 1, in Microsoft
Word format. These are larger type versions of Word files created by
Bradley Bonnette. NEW: Added feature
- flash cards for the radicals, at the end of the files. See
Bradley Bonnette's page for instructions and more information.
NEW: Book recommendation. Swallowing
Clouds is a book that explains Chinese characters, and uses them to talk
about Chinese culture, tradition and history. It's easy to read,
entertaining, and very accessible. It helps me as a beginning student to
see some rationality behind the structure of characters. It is a bit
frustrating because the author rarely gives the Pinyin, doesn't indicate tones,
and uses traditional characters (I am studying simplified). But it is
still a good read and I recommend it highly.
Some other sites I found helpful:
- Official Integrated Chinese textbook's web
site, with links to many other resources.
- Tips for Learning
Chinese.
- Text files
from IC, with integrated sound clips, in Microsoft Word format. These
are easy to use because the sound is integrated into the document, and you
can run them on your computer. But the amount of text is limited.
