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>Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 22:02:15 -0500
>From: "Mary Morrisard-Larkin" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6571.1 Chinese software recommendations (!)

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Here is some information about a piece of Chinese Software that was developed by a Holy Cross Faculty member, Claudia Ross.  Mary M-L

 "Traditional Chinese Tales."  is a reader, workbook and CD-ROM for students at the low-intermediate level of Chinese.  It is designed as stand-alone material, and it focuses on strengthening reading, writing (sentence and paragraph level), speaking and listening skills.  The CD-ROM has the text of the stories, sentence-by-sentence and paragraph-by-paragraph audio accompaniment to the text, pop-up vocabulary, and listening comprehension questions.  It also includes text-based grammar cues for on-line reading assistance and links reading comprehension questions to the text.  The reader and workbook are in traditional and simplified characters.  The CD-ROM is only available in traditional characters, and, as I said, it is only available for Macs.  It is published by Far Eastern Publications:
FAR EASTERN PUBLICATIONS 
 434 Temple Street
 P.O. Box 208252
 New Haven CT 06520-8252
 Telephone: (203) 432-3109
 FAX (203) 432-3111
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>Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:30:32 -0800
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>From: Judi Franz <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6571 Chinese software recommendations

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Our Chinese instructors use "Pinyin Master". See 
http://liwin.com/pinyinmaster/ for more information. It's Mac only. 
We also use Practical Chinese Reader.

Judi

>--- Forwarded Message from "Norval Bard" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>Wow!  We're not quite ready for 'language learning machines' here, but
>one of our Chinese instructors would like some recommendations for
>software packages (CD-ROMs, primarily) that others have found useful for
>elementary and intermediate Chinese courses.  We currently use the
>Practical Chinese Reader as the base for our curriculum.
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>Thanks in advance,
>
>Norval Bard

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