Useful Chinese resources

Hi, I have found a few useful Chinese tones study tools. If anyone is interested, have a try as it is really fun!

For practicing tones
1.

• SpeakGoodChinese (program for training tone pronunciation, see discussion). You can download and record your voice in this program, it will tell you how well your tones are.
  
• Start from Pinyin: Alphabet of Pinyin (with .wav audio)
• Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation Guide (no audio)
• Pinyin Practice (B)
• Romanization Explained
• Pinyin Wiki

If you would like to find out more useful tools for improving your Chinese, click here

http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=9739

You can also go to
http://www.yunxue.cn/game.php?action=search&subject=chengyu, there's a lot of flash cartoons about studying Chengyu in Chinese.

Term 2 Chinese blog

Thanks everyone for doing a fantastic job of blogging in term 1.

In this term, we are going to keep writing our blogs.

The new requirements are:

1. In this term, each of you need to post 4 blogs in Chinese by week 10 which is the 4th of July, 2009.

2. At least one blog has to cover a topic we learned and discussed in class.

3. The others can be anything related to your daily life and studies.

4. Year 7 & 8 students need to write at least 100 characters in each blog.

Year 9 & 10 students need to write at least 150 characters in each blog.

5. Each student has to make valuable comments on at least one other student's blog.

(There will be 1 extra mark for those who make valuable comments on their peers' work).

Enjoy Blogging in term 2!