Jinan University "Zhongwen" texts and courseware online

[querido]

Information about the texts
pdfs
courseware

The pdfs are complete. Workbooks and teacher's manuals too.

Edit 02AUG10:
(Measured in characters) it teaches 2000 characters. This is the middle of third grade for Chinese children in China.

[m000gle]

Looks great!

I'll have to take a closer look through all the materials, but at first glance this seems like it will be quite useful B)

[LongwenChinese]

Thanks!

[querido]

This series is not a normal commercial product. It's free from the website above (I'm guessing for the same reason P.E.P. Yuwen has been freely viewable online) because it's produced courtesy of the Chinese government for schools abroad, etc, as Meng Lelan mentions below. Your local school of this type or, I'm told, an embassy or consulate, would be the place to look for hard copies.

[Meng Lelan]

Yes, that's the series widely used in mainland Chinese heritage students in the US that replaced the Yuwen series. It is okay for children but not necessarily for adults. When I took over an adult intermediate Chinese class at the local heritage school three years ago, the students begged me to take them off the Jinan Zhongwen series (which they studied under with a prior teacher - they were up to level two or three at the time) and find some text more "age appropriate" because they were reading stories about monkeys and frogs. Not something that was going to help them travel in China.

[querido]

To anyone interested:

The disks for the courseware have now been published and are for sale at Nanhai.

The website where the courseware can be viewed for free (link above) is likely to be complete now, but I haven't checked.

[querido]

...and now the courseware .iso's can be downloaded too, after registering. Follow the "courseware" link in post #1 and see the new [下载] link.

[querido]

I just discovered that Windows 8 can mount and play these courseware .isos with no additional software. 

 

The course goes up to the 2000 char level (sorry, don't have a wordcount).

 

3.77GB total.

[miaomiao]

Sorry to resurrect an old topic... but does anyone know if these things are really available at Chinese embassies? I'd like to find hard copies.

[Meng Lelan]

Many mainland Chinese Schools use them. Find the local Chinese School and see if they can give or sell you hard copies. 

[Wangaa]

Hey, It is already 2019, 9 years later. And I really hope you are still active. Where do I find the teachers manuals? I was only able to find the normal book pdf

[edelweis]

There's a new 2020 edition... http://www.hwjyw.com/textbook/jcxz.shtml

And they also have pdfs of 三常知识 (中国历史, 中国地理, 中国文化) which I don't remember seeing before.