Learn Chinese

This collection features lessons to learn Chinese. Download audio lessons to your computer or media player to start learning.

• Real Chinese - Web Site
  
  • Presented by the BBC. A lively introduction to Mandarin Chinese in 10 short parts with video clips from the Real Chinese TV series.
  
  


• Beginner’s Chinese - iTunes Free
  
  • Introductory audio lessons provided by the Open University.
  
  


• Beginning Chinese – iTunes Free
  
  • Over 100 hours of audio from Seton Hall, recorded by long-time teacher John DeFrancis.
  
  


• Chinese Basic - Web
  
  • A web-application developed by the University of Cambridge Language Centre for basic level students of Chinese. It focuses on listening and reading skill but it also includes many activities that help learners prepare for speaking and writing. Note that you can also download Intermediate Chinese here.
  
  


• Chinese Learn Online - iTunes Free - Feed
  
  • A dialogue-based introduction to Mandarin Chinese. Load the lessons on your mp3 player and get up the Chinese curve.
  
  


• Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk - iTunes Free -Feed
  
  • Weekly lessons in Mandarin that get very strong reviews from iTunes users.
    
    
  
  


• Chinesepod.com iTunes Free - Feed
  
  • A series of well-reviewed lessons that will let you learn Mandarin on your own terms.
  
  

Learn Chinese

Learn Arabic

• Arabic Language Lessons - iTunes Free
  
  • The US Peace Corps serves up 10 free lessons that will teach you the Arabic spoken in Jordan. The web site includes a useful transcript.
  
  


• ArabicPod - iTunes Free
  
  • Includes mp3s and PDF transcripts.
  
  


• Foreign Service Institute Basic Amharic - Web site
  
  • Lessons in dialogues, drills, exercises, and narratives. Includes samples of speech, explanations of basic language structures, and a variety of practical exercises. Two textbooks (PDF) and eleven audio lessons (MP3).
  
  


• Foreign Service Institute Written Arabic - Web site
  
  • Spoken exercises in Arabic and the printed transcriptions. Four textbooks (PDF) and 31 audio lessons (MP3).
  
  


• Foreign Service Institute Levantine Arabic - Web site
  
  • Introduction to pronunciation. Textbook (PDF) and 19 audio lessons (MP3).
  
  


• Foreign Service Institute Saudi Arabic - Web site
  
  • Covers the urban Hijazi dialect. Textbook (PDF) and 51 audio lessons (MP3).
  
  


• Foreign Service Institute Comparative Arabic - Web site
  
  • From Eastern to Western Arabic, and Levantine-Egyptian comparative study. Two textbooks (PDF).
  
  


• Survival Phrases Arabic - iTunes Free
  
  • Provides the essentials you’ll need to get around.
  
  

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