Disappeared official online support resources for NPCR?

[fourwinds]

For many years I have used a site to support learning Chinese with NPCR, which had links to free official online NPCR resources for each lesson, including animations of the new characters being written with audio available, and for Lessons 1 - 6, audio of each of the new sounds introduced.

The site was called The Online College of Chinese Language, www.hanyu.com.cn/en/default.asp

and then you had to navigate through it by a circuitous route to reach these resources, for example "... hanyu.com.cn/oldedition/en/htm_newlesson/py-01.htm".

The whole site "hanyu.com.cn" site seems to be unavailable now. I don't know if those resources have been withdrawn - haven't managed to find them after extensive searching - but I would love to find them again as the pages were simple and clear and very helpful for supporting beginning learners.

Can anyone on this forum help me to find these resources again?

[edelweis]

You can find an archive of the old hanyu.com.cn website through the wayback machine:

http://web.archive.o...lesson/mulu.htm

And this website also seems to have archived some pages (pinyin) too, but the links are often wrong:

http://new.ylsy.edu.cn/HSK/

The NPCR videos are available on the UN website:

http://unclp.org/vid...book_video.html

they also have the animations of character writing with audio:

http://unclp.org/one...ave_learnt.html

as well as other resources.

[fourwinds]

Edelweis, 非常感谢！

This is very useful - many thanks indeed.

I haven't come across the wayback machine before. Do the archived pages remain there permanently?

[edelweis]

As far as I know, yes. Although, if the site ever gets back up, they could request it to be removed from the wayback machine through their robots.txt file...

[roddy]

That's all a bit odd. NPCR is a BLCU publication, but there's no reference to the publisher of these 'official' resources. I'm surprised the UN has a Chinese language program, but that checks out - it is mentioned on actual un.org pages, and the domain is registered to a matching email address. The dictionary is xiaoma.info in a frame (frames!).