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1. YoyoChinese (https://www.yoyochinese.com). We (UN Language and Communications Programme) have a license arrangement with the company for our students in the Global Secretariat to use the service free of charge. If you would like to receive a free account, please contact Yang Du Laoshi of our programme at du3@un.org. She will forward your info to YoyoChinese to have your account set up. The following is a description by YoyoChinese: YoyoChinese YoyoChinese is a structured online Chinese language learning program that helps people learn Chinese in a fun yet efficient way. Currently, over 120,000 students worldwide are learning at YoyoChinese.com every day. The core of Yoyo Chinese are hundreds of short video lessons featuring Yangyang Cheng, a professional Chinese teacher with an impressive understanding of how English speakers learn Chinese. Her easy-to-understand lessons will guide students from the absolute basics, all the way up to conversational fluency. |
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2. YiyaHanyu (https://www.yiyahanyu.com/en/). "YiyaHanyu’s smart Chinese language training system is a learner-centered program for self-directed learning. YiyaHanyu, with videos in real work and life scenes in China, the speech recognition and evaluation system, the video for grammar instructions and learner-to-machine dialogues, helps learners easily and efficiently learn Chinese anytime, anywhere." It is a system that you would use on your smart phone. If you are interested, please follow the instructions in the user guide (download here) to install the app in your smart phone. Once you are done, please send the system-generated ID to info@unchinastudyprogramme.org so that a free account can be set up for you. |
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3. Contemporary China and Chinese Culture: An online course by Beijing Language and Culture University This Chinese culture course aims to help foreign students develop an understanding of Chinese culture and contemporary China, and grasp the basic social and working skills of effectively interacting with Chinese people under cross-culture circumstances. You can find more detailed information about the course at: https://ptkalum.edu.ednet.com/courses/alumni-ptk-blcu-cccc-en See the course syllabus here |