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For now one can Put your user tag into the page for your level. If someone makes curriculum appropriate for a level post it there. We may wish to refactor the groups into native, advanced, intermediate, novice, day1, but I made the links for HSK levels. It's ok to throw stuff to the wall and see what sticks. |
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Revision as of 06:15, 12 February 2019
Seattle Polyglots Wiki / Mandarin
Mandarin is the official language of China and Taiwan. It is spoken by many people. The English word for the language comes from a portuguese word for a type of minister. 官话 We also commonly call it Chinese, but there are many Chinese languages. SeeAlso: Cantonese, Chinese Characters, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language, Chinese Culture
This page is intended to list resources for people learning Mandarin in Seattle, Washington, USA, and link to general resources, and host or link to study materials and curriculum for Seattle Chinese learners.
We can Add a link with a '+' or '*' pointing to our user pages (User:YourUserName) to express your thoughts about the resource.
Because Chinese has a writing based on meaning with little phonetic help, it may be necessary to use extra tools and study extra. Also, China has censored internet access, so they have developed their own tools and social media, so this page may list more things than other languages need to, because reading and writing are so difficult, and the programs we are used to using are often not available.
Individuals
On your user page, include a wiki link to Category:Language for languages that you wish to interact with, and a list to the level you want.and hopefully technology will allow a list to be shown for each language. That way individuals won't have to edit each page to include themselves in a list of languages... AirOp is working on this convention...
For now one can Put your user tag into the page for your level. If someone makes curriculum appropriate for a level post it there. We may wish to refactor the groups into native, advanced, intermediate, novice, day1, but I made the links for HSK levels. It's ok to throw stuff to the wall and see what sticks.
Groups
Seattle has a number of groups for people who are learning Chinese.
- Seattle Mandarin Chinese Beginners (meetup site) Seattle Polyglots cross posts with this group. Organizers have put together vocabulary lists. Attend and ask to be added to the WeChat group.
- https://www.meetup.com/SeattleMandarinMeetup/ A group that lists informal meetings, CISC https://cisc-seattle.org/ has an ESL class for Chinese speaking seniors. Volunteers help prepare for citizenship exams. There is a WeChat group for this group too. AirOp can add you to the chat group.
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/629963764067213/ A possibly more convenient way for people to communicate if they don't use the meetup app.
- https://www.spl.org/event-calendar?trumbaEmbed=search%3Dchinese%26-index The Seattle Library has Storytimes in Mandarin and partners with the Confucius institute of Washington to provide weekly classes for beginners.
- http://confucius.washington.edu/ 孔子学院 is funded by the chinese government.
Levels and Testing
http://www.wmuconfucius.org/HSKK_practice
HSK
A number of people are preparing to take HSK tests at UW 2019/3/14 is the deadline for signing up more details will hopefully get filled in
Mandarin Native , Mandarin HSK 5-6 , Mandarin HSK 4 Mandarin HSK 3 , Mandarin HSK 2 , Mandarin HSK 1 Mandarin PinYin , Mandarin 0
Education Institutes
There are a number of language schools that teach mandarin in the area. If you are involved with them, you are encouraged to list them.
Colleges and Universities
- https://asian.washington.edu/fields/chinese
- https://asian.washington.edu/chinese-program-description
- https://spu.edu/academics/college-of-arts-sciences/languages-cultures-linguistics/undergraduate-programs/mandarin-chinese
- https://www.shoreline.edu/course-descriptions/china.aspx +
Private Schools
Tutor Companies
Individuals who Tutor
Popular Material
If you want to form a study group with people who are studying the same material as you, or if you need an idea of what material to study, this will be a prominent feature of the wikii.
http://www.learningchinesethroughstories.com/
du chinese app
duolingo
http://mandarincorner.org and youtube
Technology
Messengers
- WeChat is the main instant messenger in China. Most others are blocked. Contents are assuredly available to the Chinese Government. It has a very convenient translation tool for messages, and it can send voice clips. When using this app to help practice be sure to speak slowly and clearly, and in short clips.
- QQ This is another popular messenger application in China
Videos and YouTube:
Drill and Practice Apps:
- Hello Chinese [1]http://www.hellochinese.cc/ +
- Chinese Skill http://www.chinese-skill.com/
- Memrise https://www.memrise.com/ (good for remembering radicals) (also website)
Reading and Articles
- Du Chinese -- Professionally recorded audio, well done, limited free content, expensive for full
- Du Shu
Dictionaries:
- Has an excellent screen reader and ability to purchase multiple dictionaries.
- Can
- It is very cumbersome switching between English and Chinese
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.lite&hl=en_US
Newspapers
Seattle has many chinese newspapers available.
China Daily has been competing with Seattle Times for curb space. It is often available for as little as 25 cents. It may be editorially influenced by the Chinese Government.
There are many other free newspapers available at Chinese grocery stores, some assembled by expats
Markets
99 ranch market in Kent
Restaurants
List restaurants where they are ok with us attempting to order in Mandarin.
Chinatown
Much of the Seattle Chinatown speaks cantonese... many people will speak a little Mandarin.
Chinese Get togethers
There are a number of churches that meet in the area that speak Mandarin Chinese. eccseattle.org is one.
there is a 1.5 generation asians meetup group.
Libraries
Seattle and King county library systems have many books and videos in Chinese language.
The Seattle Central Library has a Chinese section in their children's library, many have pronunciation help.
User:AirOp has 3 backpacks full of novice books and stories in Chinese with PinYin. If you would like to borrow one just ask. 十万个儿童为什么 ShiWan Ge ErTong Wei ShenMe 100,000 Children's Whys is my favorite book because I know about the topics and I can quickly pickup grammar and new vocabulary that I will need frequently. Others arn't as interested, but these are not abstract stories.
Another favorite book of mine is about Chinese Proverbs ((All of this stuff will probably end up moving to my User:AirOp page)
Poetry
Classic Books
Textbooks
If you live in the seattle area and have these books go ahead and make a + next to them. This is a living document.
HSK series +++
Easy Chinese +
Integrated Chinese +
Movies
- The AMC Pacific Place 11 theater often shows first-run Chinese movies. https://www.amctheatres.com/movie-theatres/seattle-tacoma/amc-pacific-place-11
- https://www.facebook.com/SeattleAAFF/
- https://nwfilmforum.org/
Maps
amap (when used with pleco, it is possible for a foreigner with 1 quarter of chinese to figure out the bus system)
baidu
Browser Extensions:
This makes it so we can put a cursor over a word, and see the definition and pronunciation from within the web browser.
http://zhongwen-chrome.blogspot.com/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde
Perapera Chinese Popup Dictionaryby JorisKok
Screen Readers
Pleco (draw a box, or intercept text directly), works most of the time better than anything.
hanping ( drag a marker to the text, sometimes works better than pleco.
Google Translate -- Take a screenshot and you can use this
Translator Apps 翻译 fanyi
Bing -- works in China
Google -- can download offline tool, some blocked in China
Baidu
Websites
- Yellowbridge.com Has excellent etymology resources and ties in with college curriculum.
Television and Shows:
Growing Up with Chinese (search YouTube, CCTV)
Firefly
http://cctv.cn CCTV (use a screen reader)
Broadcast channel 46.1 AATV http://www.aattv.com/
Radio
https://chineseradioseattle.com/
Worldwide Facebook Groups:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1149591165162853/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/276152432398476/
Additional Overview Trivia and Notes
Other ways to say Mandarin Chinese: 国语 guoyu (country language) zhong1wen2(Chinese Language), 汉语 han4yu3(Han ethnicity language), 普通话 pu tong hua (common language)
Tones, Characters, Grammar,
The characters can be traditional (Hong Kong, Taiwan and expats often use them) or Simplified.. The simplified characters have less strokes.
Romanization
There are a number of ways to romanize the words. Pinyin (Pinyin: pin1yin1, Trad: 拼音), ZhuYin, WadeGiles
The most common text book in colleges near Seattle (across the US?) is the Integrated Chinese series. Some learning, including AirOp do not like this book series, and prefers the HSK series of books (published by whom?).