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Multimedia Chinese Teaching System (RMCTS) provides free Chinese classes online for different level of learners. It includes lessons at basic, beginner, intermediate and advance levels. Each lesson is designed around a specific topic and a set of grammatical forms and is written in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. The lesson has entire text with a voice recording, vocabulary list with Pinyin and English translation, grammatical notes, sentence patterns and exercise. Check it out at chinese.rutgers.edu

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2 Responses to “Chinese classes online”

  1. William Says:
    November 19th, 2008 at 4:18 am
    This method has my vote! It is not fancy and it does not try to sell you anything. It is actually a university online course, for free! The sound quality is not Chinesepod but it is a full course with a proper structure, something definitely missing in many online language tool. Furthermore you have the choice between pinyin, simplified and traditional character for each dialogue.

    More impressive is the fact that the dialogues are actually close to what I hear in the street (here in China). It is a nice change from idiotic dialogue that try to teach you something that is so far from reality that you will never actually use it.

    I first I was a bit confused by the website. So here is a little tip about how to use the website when your Chinese is as poor as mine. First browse the website in the English version and when you reached the lesson/dialogue you want to study switch between pinyin, traditional or simplified (top left corner, just below the home button). For the total beginners you can switch back to English/pinyin whenever you want by clicking the buttons in the same place. Below is a translation of the buttons. It should help even the most basic student to find their way around! And for the other buttons, do like me… try them!
    繁体 / Fan ti / Traditional character
    简体 / Jian ti / Simplified
    英语 / ying yu / English
    拼音 / Pinyin

  2. Jenny Rink Says:
    June 2nd, 2010 at 8:09 am
    Sounds interesting! I guess most people would prefer to learn Chinese from Pinyin as a start.

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