Mandarin [Audio] [DVD/Video] [Software] [Internet Resources]

Audio Tapes and Textbooks

• Chinese Link: Elementary Chinese. The audio files (MP3 format) for Chinese Link: Elementary Chinese can be accessed from the CCSF Online Language Lab with a password and user name from your instructor.

• Let's Start with Mandarin

• Laughing in Chinese (Mandarin)

• Colloquial Chinese

Various tapes authored by CCSF faculty

• Chinese Link, video on DVD to accompany the textbook. Features re-enactments of the Language in Use sections that appear in each lesson of the textbook. There is the option to view the segments with or without subtitles, and with either traditional or simplified characters.

• Family, Spring, Autumn

• The Language Center has several video tapes on reserve for instructor use. Please call for holdings.

Computer Software

• Pinyin Master, by Dr. San-pao Lin and Jeff Winters, 1998. (CD-Rom)

• Cyber Chinese, a multimedia suppliment to the Practical Chinese Reader (CD-Rom)

• NJ Star word processing system (desktop program)

• Beginning Chinese (Mandarin) from the University of Arizona's Critical Languages Series

• Microsoft proofing tool

• Chinese and Characters, New Information Tech, Enterprise Co.Ltd., 1996. (CD-Rom)

• Chinese Breakthrough, Learning Chinese through TV and Newspapers Cheng and Tsui Co., Boston, MA

• Colloquial Chinese

• Language Learning Chinese: How to Speak Mandarin Laser Publishing Group

• One Hundred Chinese Poems, Laser Publishing Group, 1995. (CD-Rom) '

• Understanding Chinese: Far East Chinese-English Multimedia Dictionary with Traditional and Simplified Characters The Far East Book Co.,
  
  Internet Resources

• http://www.ccsf.edu/langlab/chlinks.htm
  

Cantonese

Audio Tapes and Textbooks

• Cantonese Basic Course, Boyle

• Various tapes authored by CCSF faculty

Computer Software

• Beginning Cantonese from the University of Arizona's Critical Languages Series

• Chinese Character Glossary, Traditional

• Language Learning Chinese (How to Speak Mandarin) from Laser Publishing

Internet Resources

• http://www.ccsf.edu/langlab/chlinks.htm
  

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Updated: 02/04/2008

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