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	Dictionaries and Thesauri Chinese Online Chinese/English Talking Dictionary http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/ English A Web of On-line Dictionaries http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Biggest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing 230 languages); site also offers linguistic "Fun & Games" (From 'Historical Linguistic Games ' to 'On-line Vocabulary Quizzes') Links and Resources for Writers http://www.jbwb.co.uk Jacqui Bennett's Writers Bureau. Constantly updated and reviewed very useful reference links: Encyclopedia Britannica, rhyhming dictionaries, on-line English grammar and searchable quotation collections. Lexical Free Net http://www.lexfn.com/ Connected Thesaurus. Easy to use database that allows you to search for relationships between words, concepts and people. Very powerful with features lacking in other thesauri. Merriam Webster OnLine http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm The reference classic - fast reliable site. Wiktionary http://www.wiktionary.org/ Free multilingual content dictionary Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/ Free multilingual encyclopedia
	CDs, Videos and Books For a list of CDs, DVDs, videos, etc. available in the CFLC search our online database: http://inside.bard.edu/blrc/database/ Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com Mainstream videos and DVDs, including most available popular foreign feature film titles. Film MovieFacts on line http://www.eonline.com/Facts/Movies/ 0,60,71107,00.html Find out about your film's running time, release date, director, reviews etc. Kino International http://www.kino.com A small but important collection of international cinema, including seminal works of Weimar film. Excellent print reproductions; many restored versions. Kino titles are also available through most of general video distributors. FACETS http://www.facets.org The single best source for international cinema on video and DVD. The FACETS catalog includes both feature films and documentary works. Music Listen to chinese music online: http://eleaston.com/ch_culture.html#music http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/cmusic.html
	Language Learning Quizzes http://eleaston.com/chinese.html#quiz Audio Tutorial of Survival Chinese http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/ Create exercises, quizzes tests http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html Find many links to a great variety of online exercises and quiz-makers, FL self-test sites and more. Tibetan Grammar and Phrasebook http://www.geocities.com/tibetanlanguage/ language.html A "teach yourself" guide to the Tibetan language for beginners, with sections on grammar, pronunciation, parts of speech, the writing system, useful sentences, and a brief bibliography of related publications. Test your skills with self-tests drawn from award-winning language-learning software http://www.transparent.com/tlquiz/index.htm Online Chinese Talking Flashcards http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/
	Culture Chinese language and culture http://eleaston.com/ch_culture.html Information about China http://www.zhongwen.com Chinese culture and other chinese cultural web sites http://chinasite.com http://www.eskimo.com/~chongls/toc2.htm Online Guide to East Asia http://ead.sbb.spk-berlin.de:8080/ogea/index.html Provides information on and access to online resources on East Asia and a bit beyond. Arranged in two sections: subject listings and geographical listings. Includes links to such diverse resources as Australian dissertations on East Asia (1999-2000), glossary of Chinese Islamic terms, pedagogy, hard sciences, cultural anthropology, human rights, computer science, library catalogs, traffic technology, etc. The geographical listings are arranged by areas of focus and/or country that holds the resource to which the Guide provides a link. Buddhist Meditational Art Online Exhibition http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/circleofbliss/index.html An online version of a museum exhibition of 160 images with didactic text and graphics. Arranged in thirteen thematic sections, ncluding Buddhist Cosmology, Refuge of the Three Jewels, Bodhisattvas, Benevolent Protectors, etc. Early Medieval China Web Archive http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/cchenna/ journal/ Contains PDF files of articles archived from the past issues of the scholarly printjournal (No. 1, 1 994-No. 7, 2001). "Early medieval China" is understood broadly to refer to "the period roughly between the end of the Han and the beginning of the Tang eras." Tibetan Visual History Online http://www.visualtibet.org A selection of 400 images from the Pitt Rivers Museum's (University of Oxford) collection of photographs of Tibet taken by British colonial officials between 1908 and 1950. Searchable by individual images, albums, and photographers. Biographical information on the photographers also provides bibliographical references. Opaque Seduction of Canto Pop http://home.tiscali.nl/jeroendekloet/ Access to an article from the Newsletter of the International Insti-tute for Asian Studies (Leiden), "Notes on the Opaque Seduction of (Canto) Pop: Sonic Imaginations." See www.nationmaster.com/ encyclopedia/Canto pop for an explanation of Canto Pop and information on some of the best-known performers.
	Literature Chinene literature http://eleaston.com/ch_culture.html#lit Chinese history http://eleaston.com/ch_culture.html#history Novels,poetry etc http://webchinese.iscool.net Selected chinese stories and literature http://www.eskimo.com/~chongls/main.htm ATHENA -e-texts http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/ athome.html Nearly 10, 000 links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. Multilingual.. Several Search programs on author, title, language, words. ATHENA Literature Resources http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/ booksite.html Find literary resources online in and for a certain language Beaucoup! Literary Resources http://www.beaucoup.com/3refeng.html Search by subject (biography, poetry, etc.) or collections (Shakespeare, Eliot etc.) UPenn-Literature on line http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Search Books, Features, Archives online by author, title, subject, foreign Languages and more - amazing, free site! Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MISC/101819.htm This is a working bibliography of translations from the Chinese Canon with the aim of later inputting these to enable parallel reading of the original and the translation. Translations from languages other than Chinese were in principle not included or mentioned only in passim. As for target languages, "western" means every European language. A bibliography of translations into Japanese, Korean, Tibetan or modern Chinese, though of course desirable, does so far exceed our resources. LiTGloss http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/list-of-texts/shtml The LiTgloss project is a collection of texts written in languages other than English. The texts are of literary, cultural, or historical interest to speakers of English, and likely (we think) to be better appreciated if read in the original language. Our goal is to make them accessible by providing semantic and syntactical help, and to provide supplementary materials which help the students see the text in its literary, artistic, historical, cultural context. Chinese text available: "Old Man Moves a Mountain."
	Bibliography and Citation General Research and Documentation http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/ MLA Bibliography http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/ library/mla.html MLA Citation Examples http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/ library/mlahcc.html MLA Style Electronic Formats http://www.westwords.com/guffey/mla.html
	Resources and Quizmakers Create your own online vocabulary lists, flashcards, class websites + quizzes! http://www.quia.com Create activites (word lists, flashcards, matching games etc.), class websites, and amazing online quizzes (including multiple choice, pop-up, fill-in, short answer and essay questions with easy links to ANY online source), create class rosters and have easy access to tests, students' scores, time spent on tests etc.; licence fee required for instructors (not for students) Bard has licences for 10 instructors; for information contact kufner@bard.edu The Realia Project http://realiaproject.org/ Rich electronic archive for language instruction anywhere: publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures. Moodle http://moodle.org A free open-source course-management system to help teachers create online communities Pics Tips and Treats http://www.uiowa.edu/~pics/tips.html Guidelines to work with video in language teaching Software for Learning http://www.cict.co.uk/software/ teaching.htm Downloadable programs for use in the classroom or at home. Interesting: Markin a program which replaces the traditional teacher's red pen with a complete on-screen marking environment, is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments. Create exercises, quizzes tests http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html Find many links to a great variety of online exercises and quiz-makers, FL self-test sites and more. Multi,Dicto, Gloss Makers http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers /index.htm These pages are intended for use by educational institutions to use as a model. Teachers are encouraged to try out cloze, match and gloss makers, and then save copies locally. The multimaker, for example, allows you to enter as many multiple choice questions in an exercise as you like. Include your own title, instructions and individualized feedback for each answer. Asia for Educators http://afe.easia.columbia.edu Produced by the Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum. Has online teaching guides (Asia in Western and World History; Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective; Asia: Case Studies in the Social Sciences; guides to particular primary sources), classroom materials available by subject and by type (including lesson plans, timelines, maps, key points & central themes, multimedia units, cartoons & illustrations). Ornniglot: A Guide to Writing Systems http://www.omniglot.com/ Information on both living and dead languages, scripts,, alphabetic writing systems, syllabic writing systems, logographic writing systems, alternative writing systems, a bibliography, free downloadable fonts, a searchable index arranged by names of languages (where the most complete information is to be found), and a brief annotated bibliography. Contains visual examples of writing systems. Information on the Chinese language is found in the index not under "Chinese" but under names of several Chinese regional languages, including Cantonese, Chaozhou, and Mandarin. Agenda Asia http://www.iias.nl/gateway/news/agasia/ index.html A cooperative service from the European Alliance for Asian Studies, this is an online listing of Asian studies conferences, work-shops, and seminars. The meetings are arranged by geographic area (East Asia, Southeast Asia, etc.). New meeting information can be submitted online for inclusion in Agenda Asia and in the Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies. SARS Epidemic http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs /AsianStudiesDept/sars.html Provides general news and information from a wide variety of sources, with focus on China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, and Canada. Includes text from news media and recent reports. This site is kept up-to-date. China Judaic Studies Association http://servercc.oakton.edu/~friend/ chinajews.html On the activities of the Association, links to articles on Jews in China, notices and reviews of new books, conference reports, and links to related organizations.
	Placement Tests Transparent.com Proficieny Test http://www.transparent.com/tlquiz/proftest/ chinese/tlchitest.htm A short placement test for self-evaluation on grammar, syntax, and reading comprehension. Goethe Language Tests http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/ FREE tests in 25 languages and 600 language combinations. Multilingual vocabulary exercises / language tests in Arabic Bulgarian Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Serbian Spanish Swedish Turkish
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