Text from Rutgers Multimedia Chinese Teaching System.. (ex and like Chinesepod)

[Shadowdh]

Hi there all,

Mandarinstudent provided a great link with some excellent resources to learn chinese... its at http://chinese.rutgers.edu/index.htm and is well worth looking at... there are 5 main sections and I have finished copying and pasting the text part that goes with the sound/listening exercises. All the mistakes are mine as they have it very well laid out and copying and pasting them as played around with their layout a bit... I thought some others might like to have them to help with study... cheers

Texts for listening part 1.doc

[Shadowdh]

Ooops here are the last 3, I am just using number 2 at the moment so it wont upload... be a couple of mins sorry...

Texts for listening part 3.doc

Texts for listening part 4.doc

Texts for listening part 5.doc

[Shadowdh]

Ok finally figured out that it was too big after uploading cos of the thingys added... broke lesson two into 2 parts... 2a1 is the first and 2a is the second part...

Roddy if these infringe upon anything please let me know... cheers

Texts for listening part 2a1.doc

Text for listening 2a.doc

[adrianlondon]

That's really useful!

Thanks. I'll download them when I get home and add them to my collection of "great Mandarin study aids that I get excited about and then never look at" stuff.

If only I weren't so lazy, I'd actually learn something. I blame the 30 degree London weather. I'll find another excuse for next week, obviously.

[Shadowdh]

It certainly is a sweltering day... I do the same thing (re aids that get ignored) but I have started to work with them of late and its amazing the progress you make...

[Guest bayan]

多谢！

[Roee]

Thanks! Fantastic link and files service Although the Mandarin presented on chinesepod is pretty bad as far as tones and pronunciation I'd still credit them for using "modern" Mandarin. When I studied Mandarin at Uni one of the major gripes I had was that it was quite anachronistic. Regarding these texts, they seem a bit out of date but possibly OK. What do you guys reckon?

BTW some of the text is quite interesting and enlightening and worth reading if only for the content.

[here2learn]

I know this is an old post, but I was about to post the same thing, so I'm just bumping this and adding a more direct link:

http://chinese.rutgers.edu/content_c.htm

It's basically a bunch of short dialogues (audio and traditional hanzi) and then some additional info and exercises to go with them. Sort of like another kind of chinesepod but organized in the order they're being taught at Rutgers University (NJ, USA).

I'm going to go through some, and I'll also be curious to see where I fall. I wonder what year of typical college Chinese I'd be in. Curious.

[LaoLiang]

here2learn, thanks for reposting, it is truly a superb site.

[chinadude2006]

Does anyone know if it is possible to save the audio for the dialogues and stories into MP3 format? It would be nice to listen to the dialogues without being on the computer.

[c_redman]

The audio clips are just regular mp3 files, but they've written the web pages to embed it in the page. You can look in the source code to see the file referenced (usually audio.mp3 or audio_d.mp3), and modify the url to get to the mp3 file directly.