Teaching materials for learning Chinese are provided here. There are sites where you may find interesting instructions suitable for you. Here are some sites to begin your surfing.

   You may start with these pages from this website — just to get a little taste of it without working too hard.

 ● A Is For Love

  Flash cards for learning a few Chinese words

 ● Listening to the sound of Chinese

  Play a few words of Chinese on your computer.

 ● A few Chinese words

  Each word is enlarged for easy study.

  If you are studying Chinese, these tools can help.

 ● Zhongwen site

  More than a dictionary!

 ● Clavis Sinica

  Excellent program by Professor David Porter. It displays a whole document in Chinese [GB] or [BIG5], and gives individual word’s definition, pronunciation as well as much more information when you click on that word. If you are studying Chinese, this is a very useful tool.

 ● Chinese Character Visual Dictionary

   If you like to know more, go to the following sites on the Internet.

 ● The Chinese Outpost

   Pronunciation, Character and Grammar By Mark Andrew Baker. The best. A must-visit site.

 ● Learn Cantonese / Mandarin Online

 ● Internet Based Chinese Teaching and Learning

 ● Rainland Kids discover Chinese — Site is in Germany

   If you want to have a better understanding of China, go to this one.

 ● Wanfang Data

   As an affiliate (分支) of Chinese Ministry of Science &Technology, Wanfang Data has been the leading information provider in China since 1950s. With a wide range of database resources and value-added services, Wanfang Data has become a “gateway “to understanding Chinese culture, medicine, business, science, etc.

1.The underlined(画线的) lines are probably some ______.

A. books                                            B. websites 

C. tips for learning Chinese                           D. dictionaries for learning Chinese

2.This passage is most probably from ______.

A. a TV programme                                 B. a teacher’s lecture

C. a newspaper                                 D. the Internet

3.If you want to know each Chinese character’s definition, pronunciation and much more information, you’d better surf ______.

A. Zhongwen site                    B. A Is For Love

C. Clavis Sinica                         D. A few Chinese words

4.If you want to know China about its culture, medicine, business, science, you’d better surf _____.

A. Learn Mandarin online                         B. Wanfang Data

C. Rainland kids discover Chinese              D. The Chinese Outpost

5.The word “gateway” in the last paragraph probably refers to ______.

A. an opening in a wall that can be closed by a gate

B. a place through which you can go to another place

C. the space when a door is open

D. a means of getting or achieving something