UK university Chinese learning website?

[HedgePig]

I seem to remember coming across a website with free interactive Chinese lessons put together by a British university (possibly Cambridge?) and it struck me as being quite good at the time. However, now that I want to go back and have a second look I cannot find it. Does anybody have any idea what I'm thinking of or was this all a product of my fevered imagination? I'm definitely not thinking of the Rutgers or MIT Opencourseware courses.

Yours with a soft brain

HedgePig

[abcdefg]

I remember it too. I saved the info because it was a real good site. Will see if I can find it now for both of us.

[abcdefg]

Bingo!

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/

It came up in December in the context of a discussion of how to use 把。

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Grammar%20exercises.htm

I hasten to point out that it was not my original find, I only clipped and saved the link because I thought it might be useful. Not sure whose contribution it was initially.

[HedgePig]

Thanks abcdefg - I think I have found it at last. It is associated with the other place.

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/lessons.htm

Was this what you were thinking of too?

[HedgePig]

Ha! I must have been typing up my reply when you posted your find....Anyhow, thanks very much for looking it up.

Actually I was hoping you would have a different one so there would be something else I can check out :-)

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HedgePig

[Shi Tong]

Interesting stuff!

What kind of level is that at? I understand a lot of these lessons (which I've read a couple of so far), so.. what kind of level is that?

The reason I ask is because I'm still not sure how good my Mandarin is..

[anonymoose]

哈哈, I know the guy in those videos. One could say he was my first Chinese teacher.

[HedgePig]

I think the level is introductory.

There are 544 distinct characters in the 22 lessons and 83% of them come from the HSK A list.