Chinese
This page contains links to cultural resources in Chinese.
Ads
- A searchable database of ads from around the world (search by country, industry, media/type of ad--audio/print/video, etc.)
Audio
- Very nice database of mp3 recordings in a variety of languages (Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Corse, English, French, German, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, etc.) categorized by topic and searchable by language, level, gender, age, and length (Shared by Amy Lenord)
- Links to culturally authentic materials in a variety of languages, including Chinese.
- A crowd-sourced collection of texts in Chinese, shared by language learners who found them helpful or interesting. The site allows you to search by categories (fiction, non-fiction, conversations, songs, and others) and to build a list of texts, a word list, and flashcards based on what you have read (if you are signed in).
Click on a province from China and then listen to streaming radio stations from that area
Children's Literature
- Collection of videos in which native speakers narrate animated children's stories in Chinese. The words appear on the screen as subtitles that are highlighted as they are spoken. Not all stories shared are culturally authentic.
Chinese Children's Books - Online Stores - A Pinterest collection of online stores for Chinese children's books from Nick Jaworski (shared by Leslie Grahn)
Reading Garden - An online collection of children's stories in Chinese from Taiwan
- Searchable database of children's books in a wide variety of languages (including Arabic, Chinese, Croation, Farsi, Filipino, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Mongolian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, & Thai), categorized by age, color of cover, genre, length, topic, etc., that can be read online
- Collection of stories from around the world in both English and the target language including many less commonly taught languages
Comics
Pedagogical Resources Related to Comics
A website created by graphic novelist Gene Yang (author of American Born Chinese) that contains a history of comics in education, reasons for using comics in education, and quality resources (both online and print-based) for educators who wish to use comics in their classrooms.
Cultural Comparisons
Dollar Street - Use the dropdown menus on this incredible site to choose countries and topics for comparison. Your selections will bring up photos of whatever you chose from the countries you selected. The site contains many common everyday objects, people, and situations (e.g., adding spices to food while cooking, alarm clocks, answering phones, arm watches, armchairs, backyards, bathrooms, bedrooms, beds, bikes, boats, books, bowls, brushing hair, brushing teeth, car keys, carrying water, cars, ceilings, chickens, child rooms, chopping food, cleaning equipment, cleaning floors, closing the front door, computers, cooking, cooking pots, cooking utensils, cups, cutlery, diapers, dinner guests, disability aid, dish brushes, dish racks, dishwashing soaps, dishwashers, doing dishes, drinking water, drying clothes, drying dishes, earings, eating, everyday shoes, families, family snapshots, favorite home decorations, favorite items in kitchen, floors, freezers, get water, glasses, go through mail, goats, grains, guest beds, hairbrushes, hallways, handwashing, hands, and so forth.
Images
- Culturally authentic images (Scroll down to browse by language)
- Hundreds of free images related to Chinese culture
- Searchable database of high quality, professional, royalty-free images including many culturally authentic images from around the Chinese-speaking world
- Culturally authentic images selected by teachers
Infographics
Infographics for World Languages: Chinese [Collection by Leslie Grahn]
Informational Texts
- Magazine and newspaper sites, categorized by country and topic, from 200 countries around the world
- Directory of newspapers and magazines from around the world
- A collection of front pages from today's newspapers from around the world
- A map that plots the locations of newspapers from around the world--can be filtered by language (Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)
- Website that contains "news for kids" in Chinese, but the stories are more like the opinion pieces that one might find in a magazine in their tone. Each article is illustrated with a watercolor drawing and addresses a potentially controversial social issue such as bullying, the death penalty, or technology use
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Informational texts that have been organized by reading level. This really nice site has an IMPRESSIVE array of tech tools for supporting learners' reading, including options for toggling between simplified and traditional characters, toggling pinyin off and on, grammatical notes, vocabulary lists, audio (with adjustable playback speed), and reading/listening exercises.
- A collection of newspapers and magazines, organized by continent and country and briefly annotated with info. about the primary emphasis and political leanings of the news included
- An online magazine-like publication that contains a variety of articles, including book reviews, opinion pieces, etc. The content is pretty superficial
Interviews
Cultural Interviews with International Business Executives - A collection of interviews in Chinese about business negotiation tactics (similar collections are also available in German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, & Turkish)
- Videos of eye-witness testimony given in Chinese and a vareity of other languages regarding various topics related to a whole host of topics, including acceptance, anti-semitism, choice, civil rights, courage, culture, deportation, discrimination, education, empathy, faith, family, fear, genocide, hate, human rights, humanity, hunger, identity, memory, refugees, religion, resilience, stereotypes, and a whole host of other topics (click language and your target language to access the videos for your language)
Literature (See also Children's Literature)
- Free books in the public domain that are available in text and audio formats
Magazines
- Magazine and newspaper sites, categorized by country and topic, from 200 countries around the world
- Directory of online newspapers and magazines from around the world
- Links to online magazines from around the world, categorized by topic, with the country and language listed to the right of the magazine
Memes
Authentic Text: Chinese - A Pinterest collection of memes in Chinese from Leslie Grahn
News
- News in Mandarin Chinese designed for kids
- Directory from around the world
- A collection of front pages from today's newspapers from around the world
- A map that plots the locations of newspapers from around the world--can be filtered by language (Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)
- Website that contains "news for kids" in Chinese, but the stories are more like the opinion pieces that one might find in a magazine in their tone. Each article is illustrated with a watercolor drawing and addresses a potentially controversial social issue such as bullying, the death penalty, or technology use
- A collection of newspapers and magazines, organized by continent and country and briefly annotated with info. about the primary emphasis and political leanings of the news included
- An online magazine-like publication that contains a variety of articles, including book reviews, opinion pieces, etc. The content is pretty superficial
Music
- A collection of culturally authentic songs organized by continent, country, holiday, and language
Poetry
A database of poems in a very wide variety of languages that can be filtered by country, language, or poet. Each poem is read aloud and accompanied by biographical information about the author. Translations to numerous languages are provided as well.
Social Media
Weibo - A Twitter-like platform in Chinese
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Texts
- 听故事书 (有很高级的听力材料,长篇著名故事)(Shared by Wu Ping)
- A collection of books, e-books, and other texts in a wide variety of languages. Use the advanced search feature to find texts in Chinese.
Videos
CCTV - Stream TV programs from China in Chinese
- Searchable collection of videos in hundreds of languages from around the world. Choose the 100% option in order to get a subtitled version of the video. You can also select the "country" tab to find videos from a specific country.
Paper cut animation of Buffalo - Animation made of Chinese papercuts
- A collection of cultural materials in Chinese that includes music, poetry, text and art from China
大耳朵图图官方频道 - A YouTube collection of 268 videos from the animated cartoon in Chinese
Pedagogical Resources
- Magazine available in English and the language of your choice. Each issue is organized around a conceptual theme. Excellent visuals make great bulletin board material if you buy these in your local bookstore instead of viewing online. CAUTION: Much of the material in these magazines is NOT appropriate for classroom use, so teachers should preview and select carefully.
Phenomenal site filled with creative, practical, proficiency-oriented ideas for world language teaching and learning
Handouts from an ACTFL 2010 presentation that contain a comic analysis worksheet form, a comic creation worksheet that asks students to analyze complementarity, contrast, and redundant relationships among images and text, lesson plans, project rubrics, and more
Jiajia's story -- narrated slideshow - A sample activity designed as a pre-activity to introduce a project-based language learning project in Chinese
Excellent resources for building, tracking, and assessing proficiency
Excellent materials for building, assessing, and tracking proficiency from Alyssa Villareal
Lemon Tree lyrics with pinyin 《柠檬树》 苏慧伦 - A 3:14 min. music video with subtitles in Mandarin, pinyin, and English and didactic information about language patterns embedded throughout
- World-wide statistics on energy, environment, food, government and economy, health, population, technology, and water in Chinese that update in real time