These are materials I have compiled for students and scholars to learn to read Buddhist texts in Chinese. This is very much a work in progress; suggestions for improvement are welcome.
Alex Amies has prepared a web-based version for volumes 1 and 2. Unlike the version below, which is a simple PDF for download, this version allows you to hover over characters to see their definitions from the glossary. (The latest version of Volume 1 is the PDF version; I need to update the following):
http://www.primerbuddhism.org/
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Chinese Boost is a Chinese learning website with free resources on how to learn Chinese, and materials you can use to do that. All content here is free and open for everyone to use, and always will be. We want to help all Chinese learners improve their Chinese with useful resources.
Calligrapher generates printer and tablet-friendly PDF worksheets to aid writing Chinese characters much like the worksheets that I used in elementary school. However, instead of having only traceable characters, Calligrapher gives customizable lexical context.
With Calligrapher, your worksheets are labelled with pronunciations, radicals, stroke orders, as well as individual character translations. There are also different fonts to choose from, providing advanced Chinese learners with a template to improve cursive Chinese calligraphy.
The development is still under way, but I wanted to give all Chinese language learners a sneak peak of this nifty tool.
More features are currently in the making. To accomodate the spaced repetition learning technique, flashcards with animated stroke orders and voice pronunciations as well as quizzes based on past user text input will soon be available.
Chinese Characters Worksheet Creator is a web-tool which you can create your own chinese character worksheet to practiced writing. It supports the creation of Chinese characters stroke order worksheet.
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Recommended phrases: We have prepared the most used Chinese phrases. Select the phrases you want to practice and test your pronunciation.
Your own sentences: First, write a sentence to speak in Chinese. Then, tap the microphone icon and proceed with speaking. Click the Evaluate button to check your score for pronunciation.
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.
Useful Chinese learning tools, can be used to convert text into Pinyin/Zhuyin, Trad./Simp. version, or generate a vocabulary list.
Tools provided in this extension includes:
- Chinese to Pinyin/Zhuyin conversion
- Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion
- Vocabulary list generator
- Dictionary lookup
- Translate to English
- Chinese text to speech
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This website is dedicated to unveiling the mysteries of learning a language in general and about learning Chinese in particular. If you don’t take responsibility and think for yourself, it will take ages to reach a decent level, but if you become aware of how to learn and study efficiently, fluency is within reach.
Learning Chinese one tab at a time.
Hanzi Xiaobai (Chinese Newbie) allows you to practice your Chinese skills each time you open a new tab on your favourite web browser.
You can explore and play with more than 3000 of the most common Chinese characters!
We also compiled a list of the best resources: books, apps, podcasts and tutors (no affiliation, we genuinely recommend them) for the ones who want to dive deeper into that beautiful language.
Features
- Get a random Chinese character with its pinyin and English definition every time you open a new tab
- Listen to the correct Chinese pronounciation by a native
- Read sentences picked from famous books and quotes using that specific character.
- Watch as the character get drawn with the correct stroke order on the screen
- Practice drawing the character yourself with help or not
- Choose your own HSK (official Chinese test) levels to practice only characters that are meaningful to you
HanziCraft is a web application that takes you into the depths of Chinese characters. It aims to provide information on Chinese characters in a easy clean format with awesome useful information.
This textbook was first compiled by Professor Patrick Hanan at Harvard University in 1984. In the introduction, Professor Hanan acknowledged his appreciation to those who had contributed to the completion and revision of the book. Since then many graduate teaching fellows from the department of EALC at Harvard have provided invaluable suggestions for the revision of this textbook: Margaret Baptist Wan, Anthony George, Xiaofei Tian, Regina Llamas and Hu Hisao-chen. This revised version of textbook includes the grammar notes prepared by Professor David Lattimore who taught at Harvard during the 1992 academic year and the glossary of grammar terms by Professor Judith Zeitlin. Paul Rouzer’s commentary to the first 16 lessons have been included in this edition. Some changes were made for the purpose of consistency and convenience by Shang Wei and Le-ning Liu, and later by Andrew Schonebaum. Andrew Schonebaum and Kong Mei edited and produced the online version in 2021, with the permission of Professor Hanan’s granddaughters Joanna Hanan Billings and Liz Hanan. We are grateful to all those mentioned here and to readers who will create and share subsequent editions.
Andrew Schonebaum
Kong, Mei
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