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¡¡ | Chinese Language Programme January Newsletter
The January to April, 2011 term begins on Tuesday, 4th January. The last day of class is Friday, 25 March and final exams are scheduled for 28th and the 29th of March. For course schedule and class lists, please visit http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/sds/lcp/UNLCP/english/mast-sched.html. If you registered for a course, but didn't see your name in the class list, please contact the programme coordinator at ho@un.org. The spring term begins on Monday, 18th of April. Please note that starting from this term, our department has instituted a new No-show fee for all the six language programmes: students who registered for a class, but didn't show in the first week and didn't inform by email either their teacher or the coordinator about their late arrival or their wish to cancel their registration will be 1) considered as no-show students; 2) removed from the class list; and charged (if they want to come back at another term) a $100 no-show fee when they register for any class in a subsequent term. Unless the repeater's fee, the no-show fee cannot be waived. For additional information about this and other policies, please see the appropriate IC by clicking here. 2011 Summer China Study Programme Opens to Applications For the 8th year in a row, our programme is offering a popular three-week summer study programme at Nanjing University in 2011. the programme dates are Monday, 11 July to Friday, 29. The programme dates are Monday, 11 July to Friday, 29 July, 2011. Classes are held Monday to Friday with a total of 4 hours per day and 20 hours per week. Courses include conversation and reading classes. All students who are enrolled in a Chinese class and have completed at least Level 2 are eligible to apply. Tuition and housing are covered by the Chinese government and the international travel is your own responsibility. Upon the approval of your supervisor, staff members in the Secretariat will receive Special Leave With Pay. For detailed description of eligibility requirements and application procedures, please visit http://unclp.org/nandaprog/nandaprogram11.html. The deadline for application is 31 March, 2011. Tutoring Opportunities Wordoor (http://wordoor.com/), a company based in Shanghai that provides online Chinese classes, has offered a free tutoring programme to students taking classes with our programme. The programme works in such a way that Wordoor will assign one teacher to tutor one of our students up to 3 times a week via its proprietary internet platform (no special setup on your end). Each session will last for about 15-20 minutes scheduled at a time of your choice with the focus largely on conversation based on your particular needs. The session schedule is flexible. You can reschedule your session when it conflicts with your work. For this term, Wordoor will take on up to 20 of our students. If you are interested, please register by sending an email to ho@un.org. Since Wordoor will pay its teachers for providing the free service to us, please make sure you are committed to the sessions if you decide to go for it. Occasional absences are fine, but excessive no-shows will render the programme ineffective. Photo Exhibition A
photo exhibition entitled Photos from China will be mounted
outside of DC2-207 soon. To preview the photos, please click
here.
QQ Dictionary and Cursor Translator This free online software serves as an English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary as well as an automatic mouse-over translator such that if you point your cursor at a word in Chinese or English, its equivalent in the other language will pop up. Click here for instructions about how to download and install the software. ABC Chinese-English, English-Chinese Dictionary
The
ABC English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary
(ECCE) is a student-oriented bilingual dictionary that, like other
dictionaries in the ABC series, organizes Chinese words by their pronunciation
as written in pinyin. This innovative, straightforward alphabetical organization
allows the user to find most words more quickly and easily. It also facilitates
the comparison of words that are pronounced similarly or identically, which is
not possible in traditionally-ordered dictionaries. The series¡¯ alphabetical
ordering has been imitated in other dictionaries, but
ECCE is still unique in that it
offers detailed and authoritative coverage of grammar (parts of speech,
constructions, and examples) and orthography (both simplified and complex
characters as well as pinyin). Buy it from University of Hawaii Press, please click here. View articles about this Dictionary, please click here.
Dave Flynn We already know that watching Chinese TV and Chinese cartoons is an excellent way to improve your Chinese, likewise, subtitled Chinese movies are also a great way to improve your reading and listening ability. Even though most Chinese movies already come with subtitles, but there are still some instances when subtitles might be missing, or they are in Simplified Chinese and you need Traditional Chinese and vice-versa. Luckily you can download subtitles for almost any movie, and in almost any language, including Chinese. At Shooter.cn you can find the Chinese subtitles for a huge selection of movies. There are subtitles for both Chinese and English language movies, so if you want to see how some English might translate into Chinese then you can add the Chinese subtitles to your English language movies. Before downloading make sure you check for your desired language £¨ÓïÑÔ£©as generally there are versions for Simplified £¨¼ò£©and Traditional£¨·±£© Chinese. Articles of Interest
Click on the titles to read the full stories of the following articles. 1. Protecting Chinese Characters in the Digital EraFrom: China DailyBy Sun LiAs young Chinese increasingly forget how to write characters because they don't have to use keyboards, touch screen technology on mobile phones is reversing the drift. For Yin Liang, a 26-year-old purchasing agent at a Shanghai-based State-owned company, his embarrassment over forgetting how to write characters has gradually disappeared since he started to use the handwriting input method on his iPhone 4 a month ago.
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The U.S. must Start Learning from Asia
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