Roee Posted July 12, 2006 at 04:01 PM Report Posted July 12, 2006 at 04:01 PM Ok, well, there's only www.newsinchinese.com. Unfortunately the Mandarin level on the linked news site is just too high. Is there any site with news for kids? Or any well known sites for kids with decent and simple Mandarin? Quote
geek_frappa Posted July 12, 2006 at 04:46 PM Report Posted July 12, 2006 at 04:46 PM Google: 中文 笑话 Search for chinese jokes and drop them into adsotrans.com... Quote
Roee Posted July 13, 2006 at 02:10 AM Author Report Posted July 13, 2006 at 02:10 AM Thanks for the idea, I'll give it a try and report here if anything really funny is found In the mean time, if anyone is aware of such a site for "kids" please let us know. Quote
roddy Posted July 13, 2006 at 02:31 AM Report Posted July 13, 2006 at 02:31 AM I don't know of any sites producing resources specifically for child learners (there are precious few for adult learners) but I put a couple of links for Chinese kids here which may be useful, though far from ideal. Quote
Roee Posted July 13, 2006 at 03:14 AM Author Report Posted July 13, 2006 at 03:14 AM Roddy, thanks. geek_frappa, searching for jokes in Mandarin result in plenty of sites, alas the mandarin level is still way too high. So, I searched for 小孩笑话 and then one can find far more readable jokes, like this one : 准备小弟弟 妈妈问小女儿，生日那天最想要什么礼物，女儿大声说：“想要一个小弟弟。” 妈妈回答道：“爸爸和妈妈也很愿意给你一个小弟弟，但在你生日之前没有足够的时间准备小弟弟。” 女儿奇怪道：“那你们为什么不像爸爸的工厂那样做呢？他们有什么东西要赶的话，就会找更多的人来加班。” Quote
trevelyan Posted July 13, 2006 at 07:02 AM Report Posted July 13, 2006 at 07:02 AM Roee, We're actually working on a new site that will provide manually annotated readings at a variety of difficulty levels. I can't give a hard timeline for when it will go live since I'm not really the bottleneck, but I would expect things to happen in about two weeks. Incidentally, if anyone reading this thread has suggestions on any materials at the pre-intermediate level that would be useful for students, please let us know. We are not interested so much in annotating canned instructional texts, but are very interested in things like children's rhymes, short and significant historical texts, songs, etc.. In short, texts that reflect how Chinese is and has been actually spoken and used. -- trevelyan http://www.newsinchinese.com Quote
Weronika Posted July 16, 2006 at 09:05 AM Report Posted July 16, 2006 at 09:05 AM http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~chongls/toc2.htm Children stories, chines prose! Quote
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