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Web-based Chinese Input Service (WebIME) is a webpage that enables users to input Chinese characters on Internet anytime, anywhere. It provides five conventional Chinese input methods (Cangjie (倉頡), simplified Cangjie(簡易), Hanyu pinyin(漢語拼音), Cantonese Pronunciation(粵語拼音)[#1] and Chinese dictionary-like method (Radical/Number of Strokes(部首/筆劃))) augmented with two special features, homophone and candidate characters filtering. WebIME aims to bring more ease and convenience for users to input Chinese characters when surfing the Internet.

You can learn Chinese online from tutor and sessions. The most important is to have online teaching from native speakers of china. Chinesesphere has Free Online trial session to learn Chinese without any commitment.

We are using open source teleconferencing technology to conduct 1-on-1 and group classes via video, voice, flash technology for displaying Chinese characters.

Chinese worksheet on culture - could be modified and/or tiered

This is a great website for leisure learning. You'll find popular music, TV shows and drama in Korean, Chinese, and so on. Most of the shows come with subtitles in various languages.

Online Mandarin class offered in Santa Barbara, CA "Now, in Santa Barbara, 45 students from five local schools have begun taking a high-tech class in Mandarin this semester. With the addition of this new course, Santa Barbara students will converse on a global scale and interact as a digital community."

Learning chinese or english required experienced and native teacher to guide you. LanguageSphere helps you to learn any language online with the help of online tutors and lessons.

Chinese language tools at the bottom of the page

animated character stroke order with applet

Katherine Munro's resources for languages including German, Chinese, English (ESL), Indonesian and Japanese., Katherine Munro's suggestions for student group travel to L�beck and Sierksdorf., Katherine Munro's information and links on S�tterlin (German handwriting)., Update of Katherine Munro's gallery of original photos., Katherine Munro's suggestions for student group travel to Saarbr�cken, Homburg and Ottweiler.

The Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP), a criterion-referenced, Web-based assessment tool, measures students' language proficiency at levels ranging from Novice-low to Intermediate-mid. STAMP currently measures reading, writing, and speaking proficiencies in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. CASLS strives to continually improve STAMP's test design while adding new languages and new levels. STAMP is available through CASLS' partner company, Avant Assessment.

Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish, Sicilian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, and also Sign Language. If you're interested in how learning a language works, there are also linguistics courses online.

The internet is a colossal repository of potentially almost anything. It has transcended most of the known hurdles in information exchange and social interaction. In fact, the overwhelming popularity of social media fueled the substantial rise of internet usage, drawing participation from different parts of the world.

In the United States, about 70 new federal grants for language education to school districts over the past year, more than half include Mandarin programs. A number of National Foreign Language Center's long-standing recommendations gained support. These include development of the language capabilities of U.S. heritage speakers, teaching languages to higher levels, development of improved K-12 programming in critical languages and articulation among K-12 programs, higher education programs, study abroad, and the world of work. NFLC website

Watch Korean Dramas, Anime, Telenovelas and popular TV Shows from around the world subtitled in English, Spanish, Chinese and many more languages.