adsotrans Chinese-English annotation (By Lancashire, David) a bilingual Chinese-English database supporting hanzi-to-pinyin conversion, text-annotation, Chinese IME, and gist translation. Date: 2005
Assign shortcut keys to Pinyin letters (By Xie, Tianwei) Instructions on assigning shortcut keys to input Pinyin with tones. Date: None
Audio Portfolios (By Michigan State University) A tool that provides an environment for students to practice speaking. The program runs in a web browser window. Students record their voice (and video) messages and "share" them with the instructor. All shared sound files are stored on the serve,r and are accessible only to the student and the instructor. Date: 2004
Bider (By Bider Technology Inc.) A computer company which provides tools for learning Chinese including text-to-speech, OCR, code conversion, conversion of Pinyin, etc. Date: 2006
Chinese Annotation Tool (By Peterson, Eric) An online tool to segment Chinese texts and make vocabulary lists for new words. Very good for beginning and intermediate Chinese learners. It is also very useful for Chinese language instructors to prepare for teaching materials. Date: Updated 2004
Chinese Assist 2006 (By chineseassist.com) A downloadable program to help students to learn vocabulary. Creates word lists from articles, dictionary entries, mouse selections or download prepared lists Makes flashcards. Date: 2006
Chinese Input Method Editor (By Chinese-Tools.com) Type simplified Chinese characters online. Date: 2006
Chinese TA (By Silicon Valley Language Technologies, LLC.) A very good authoring tool for Chinese language instructors. It enables Chinese teachers to create, adjust, and evaluate their teaching materials more efficiently. It automatically converts characters to Pinyin, translates traditional characters to simplified ones or vice versa, makes vocabulary lists and calculates the frequency of character usage. Date: 2004
Chinese to Image Fly (By TigerNT, Inc.) Converts Chinese text in GB code to graphics. Date: 1999-2002
Chinese-English Talking Dictionary (By Lau, J.) Users may type in characters, pinyin with numbers or tone markers or English words to find pronunciation and definition for English. Click on a sound link will produces speech synthesized voice. Date: 2003-2006
CHINESE-TOOLS.com (By chinese-tools.com) A web site of online tools for learning Chinese. It includes converters (traditional to simplified characters or vice versa, converters between characters and Pinyin. Chinese-French and Chinese-English dictionaries are available. There are also some other links and a discussion forum. Date: 2005
Convert pinyin tone numbers to tone marks (By Pinyin.info) An online program to convert Pinyin with numbers to Pinyin with tones. The converted Pinyin can be used for web pages. Date: 2003
DimSum: Chinese Reading Assistant and Dictionary (By Peterson, Eric) This is a versatile tool that helps both teachers and learners. The functions include: pop-up dictionary, pinyin with tone markers input, conversion from characters to pinyin and other Romanized system and bopomofo, conversion between simplified and traditional characters, etc. Both off-line and online text can be treated. Date: None
DingDing Online Chinese Input System (By tycool 美國中文在綫) An online Chinese input program. Various input methods can be used to input simplified and traditional characters. Good for the users when they travel or cannot find a computer with Chinese input methods. Date: 2004
Exercises, Quizzes, Tests (By E.L.Easton Languages Online) Free online programs to create all kinds of quizzes, exercises and tests. Date: 1997-2005
FlashcardExchange (By Tuolumne Technology Group, Inc.) Creating flash cards for learning characters and words. Easy to use. Date: 2005
GoChinese (By Gowell Software Ltd.) Software for teaching and learning Chinese. Automatically convert characters to Pinyin. Text-to-speech technology. Date: 2004
HanWJ & Chinotes 汉王简 (By Jiang Yi 江毅) Includes three programs: HanWJ Input Engine (type Chineseinto a normal window), HanWJ Smart Editor (with conversion and text-to-speech functions) and HanWJ Chinotes. Date: None
Historical Maps of China (By University of Texas, Austin) A collection of historical maps of China. Date: Last updated 2004
Horizon Wimba (By Horizon Wimba, Inc.) Classroom collaboration for online education, language learning and interactive communications. Live classroom and weblab can be used to deliver the course and teach languages. Date: 2005
How to Convert Old Chinese Documents to Unicode-supported Documents (By Xie, Tianwei) Instructions on conversion of old Chinese documents in Word format to Unicode-supported Word documents. Date: 2005
How to use Unicode Pinyin fonts (By Xie, Tianwei) Instructions on installation and use of Unicode Pinyin fonts. Provides source codes of Word micro file which converts Pinyin with numbers to Pinyin with tone markers. Date: 2002
IME installation (By andante.org) Instructions on installation and use of Microsoft Chinese input method editor (IME). Date: 2001
InputKing 在线中文输入系统 (By InputKing.com) An online Chinese input program. Various input methods can be used to input simplified and traditional characters. Good for the users when they travel or cannot find a computer with Chinese input methods. Date: 2005
Itool (By Xie, Tianwei) An online tool for instructors or students to do reading. Any text, doc, htm or url can be opened in the left window and readers can use the right window for online tools. The tools inlcuded: yahoo dictionary, google search, Lin Yutang dictionary, text-to-speech, simplified-traditional conversion, animated characters, Popjisyo, and Adsotrans annotation program. Online text chat is also available. Date: 2006
iTools (By iTools) Quick access to the best Internet tools. Includes search, language, research, financial and internet tools. Date: 2004
MaxAuthor (By University of Arizona) A free multimedia authoring system developed by the University of Arizona Computer Assisted Language Instruction Group (UACALI) for language instructors. Date: None
Net Lab (By Anonymous) Provides all kinds of freeware or shareware for creating or editing sound, photo, pictures. Very useful tools can be found here. Date: 1997
Online Chinese Tools (By Peterson, Eric) One of the most popular web sites to support Chinese learning. Contains various tools for learning, e.g. conversion between GB and Big5 codes, dictionary, email fixing, etc. An important site for learners and teachers. Date: 1996-2004
Online Pinyin Input Method 网上中文输入法 (By www.cari.com.my, Malaysia 马来西亚佳礼网络有限公司) Provides online Chinese input methods. Using Pinyin and Cangjie input methods to enter Chinese characters or words. The typed Chinese text can be copied and pasted in other programs. Good for those who do not have access to Chinese Input Methods. Date: 2003
Online Pinyin Input 在綫拼音輸入法 (By Dict.cn) Provides online Pinyin input method. Supports about 7,000 characters. The typed Chinese text can be copied and pasted in other programs. Good for those who do not have access to Chinese Input Methods. Date: 2003-2004
Online Tools for Chinese Language Instructors (By Xie, Tianwei) A collection of online tools for Chinese language instructors. Date: 2004
Penless Chinese Language Learning Software (By Penlesslearning.org) Penless Chinese Language Learning: A Computer-Assisted Approach. A project funded by FIPSE, Department of Education (2001-2003). A free Chinese input program for downloading. Users can use Pinyin to input Chinese characters. The pronunciation will be heard while the characters are typed. A good FREE learning tool for beginning students. Date: Last updated 2004
Pinyin Editor (By Chinese-Tools.com) Typing Pinyin with tones online. Date: 2006
Pinyin TextField (By Theron Stanford) An online Pinyin input program that allows users to type Pinyin with tone markers easily. Date: 2006
Pinyin to Unicode (By Lawson, Konrad Mitchell) An online program to convert Pinyin with numbers to Pinyin with tones. The converted Pinyin can be used for web pages. Date: 2003
Puzzlemaker (By Discovery.com) Make puzzles online. Date: 2004
Questia (By Questia Media America, Inc.) An online library which has books, journals and articles for online reading. Some books are free to read and some materials require subscription. If a books includes pictures, subscription is needed to view the pictures. Date: 2004
Quia (By Quia Corporation) Online authoring system to create and edit exercises, quizzes and tests. Tests can be converted to sessions which report students' scores and statistics. Very good authoring tools for language teachers. Supports all Asian languages as well as European languages. Date: 1998-2005
QuickPin (By ScriptMaster Software) An online program to input Pinyin with tones. Date: 2004
Simple interface to Chinese big5 annotator (By Cannam, Chris) Paste some big5-encoded text into the form of this web page, select your options, and the vocabulary list with Pinyin and English meanings will be listed according to user's needs. Good for learners. Date: None
SinoConex (By SinoConex) SinoConex provides school management software specifically designed for oversea Chinese language schools. It helps schools to manage school administration with easy-to-use web application, and allows them to devote more time and effort to language teaching. Date: 2006
SoGou IME (By SoGou 搜狗拼音输入法) Input Chinese text using Pinyin. Date: 2006
Test Authoring Tools (By San Diego State University Language Acquisition Resource Cente,r Wayne H. Stromberg) Information about test authoring tools for language instructors. Date: Last updated 2005
TigerNT Chinese Conversion Tools (By TigerNT, Inc.) Converts Chinese GB codes to Big5 or vice versa and converts the codes to image files.
WebAuthor (By Renganathan, Vasu) Used for making online forms for web assisted learning and teaching of languages Date: None
WebCalis (By Duke University) A language learning authoring system for Windows which allows instructors to create and present lessons for students in almost any language through an easy-to-use graphical interface.
WinCalis (By Duke University) A language learning authoring system for web which allows instructors to create and present lessons for students in almost any language through an easy-to-use graphical interface.
Writing Chinese Under Windows 2000 Professional/XP (By Eng, Robert) Instructions on writing Chinese under Windows. Date: 2002
WWSTAR 文言之星 (By Zhu, Chenxu 朱晨旭) Freeware. Translates classical Chinese into modern Chinese. Simplified characters only. Date: 2003
YellowBridge Talker (By Lau, J.) A text-to-speech (TTS) software add-on for Internet Explorer. It allows users to listen to Chinese text pronounced in Mandarin on any web page. The text is read with pauses of sense groups and punctuations. Date: 2003-2006
