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Home About Us ---> About Shu Ren History of Program About Immersion Program About the Flagship Grant Financial Information Board Members Shu Ren Programs ---> Fundraising ---> T-Shirt Sales Dumpling Festival Gala China Research Residency ---> RR Scholarship 8th Grade CRR Blog What is it? Join Shu Ren Learning Tools for HOME ---> Online Printables/Flashcards ---> Kindergarten 1st Grade Chinese Resources Tips from Teachers Online English Tools School Community ---> Parent e-Community (listserv) Shu Ren Members Forum PTA Website Get Involved School Contacts Site Map Shu Ren Online Store Want to communicate with other parents? Click the button to join parent listservs	Online Learning for Kids Active Chinese : The ActiveChinese Kid's Edition was created by a dedicated team of bilingual educators, designers and artists to bring Chinese to non-Chinese speaking children. By entering the world of the "Enchanted Forest", your student or child can learn to speak, read, and write Chinese in an engaging and fun language environment. There is a demo you can view at their website. It is a paid for online service. Chinese Dictionaries Online Online Chinese Dictionary with ability to hear the word spoken. Online Chinese Dictionary with Character Etymology (history) and Stroke Order shown. Must pay a fee or purchase something to be able to hear the word spoken however. Still an awsome site to learn detail about the character. GRAPHIC Online Dictionary where you can DRAW the chinese character to look for it. You can look up words by drawing, or pinyin or english. Once you find it you can see the etymology of the character, the radicals, the meaning and the stroke order. (To DRAW it is important to know the stroke order to find the character.) How to write Chinese Characters: (STROKE ORDER) - On this website scroll down to the section titled "Basic rules of stroke order". Learn Chinese! Livemocha is the world's largest online community for language learners, with free lessons and a global community to help you learn a new language. With Livemocha, you can develop confidence in your language skills that will help you carry on conversations in a foreign language. From your personal home page, you have access to all of your current course information, friends, tasks, a list of recent friend activity, and more! The Confucius Institute at PSU officially opened in May 2007 after Portland State University and the Office of International Affairs signed an agreement in January 2007 with the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Hanban) to establish this Confucius Institute in Portland. Our mission is to promote educational exchange and cooperation between the US and the PRC. We have the status of a non-degree granting entity that shares some academic programs with our partner institution, Soochow University in Suzhou (PSU’s sister university in southwestern China). In addition, we are actively engaged in community outreach programs and the development of non-degree China area studies and language programs. Places to BUY Chinese books, DVD's and more! Chinese Mall Asian Parent Language Lizard China Sprout

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Online Learning for Kids

Active Chinese : The ActiveChinese Kid's Edition was created by a dedicated team of bilingual educators, designers and artists to bring Chinese to non-Chinese speaking children. By entering the world of the "Enchanted Forest", your student or child can learn to speak, read, and write Chinese in an engaging and fun language environment. There is a demo you can view at their website. It is a paid for online service.

Chinese Dictionaries Online

Online Chinese Dictionary with ability to hear the word spoken.

Online Chinese Dictionary with Character Etymology (history) and Stroke Order shown. Must pay a fee or purchase something to be able to hear the word spoken however. Still an awsome site to learn detail about the character.

GRAPHIC Online Dictionary where you can DRAW the chinese character to look for it. You can look up words by drawing, or pinyin or english. Once you find it you can see the etymology of the character, the radicals, the meaning and the stroke order. (To DRAW it is important to know the stroke order to find the character.)

How to write Chinese Characters: (STROKE ORDER) - On this website scroll down to the section titled "Basic rules of stroke order".

Learn Chinese!

Livemocha is the world's largest online community for language learners, with free lessons and a global community to help you learn a new language. With Livemocha, you can develop confidence in your language skills that will help you carry on conversations in a foreign language. From your personal home page, you have access to all of your current course information, friends, tasks, a list of recent friend activity, and more!

The Confucius Institute at PSU officially opened in May 2007 after Portland State University and the Office of International Affairs signed an agreement in January 2007 with the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Hanban) to establish this Confucius Institute in Portland. Our mission is to promote educational exchange and cooperation between the US and the PRC. We have the status of a non-degree granting entity that shares some academic programs with our partner institution, Soochow University in Suzhou (PSU’s sister university in southwestern China). In addition, we are actively engaged in community outreach programs and the development of non-degree China area studies and language programs.

Places to BUY Chinese books, DVD's and more!