Reading and Listening

[semantic nuance]

children electronic library: http://elibrary.hkedcity.net/index.asp

stories with audio both in Cantonese and Chinese.

Hope it helps!

[Shadowdh]

Cheers for that... just a quick and dumb question... it looks like its traditional, is this the case...

[in_lab]

It looks like just intros to the stories are available.

Shadowh: Yes, you are right.

[semantic nuance]

Yes, it's traditional characters.

You can first click <圖書大檢閱>, then, click <總書目>, you'll see book titles there. And then, you click any book title to see if you'd like to listen to Cantonese or Chinese.

Hope it helps.

[ophion]

That is a neat resource; thanks for the pointer. It is about right for my level, too.

[chris2005]

Hi -

Thanks for posting that link. I thought I might be able to practise reading, but can't cope with Traditional Chinese. Anyone know any links for online children's books in Simplified Chinese?

chris2005

[stephanhodges]

You could use Dimsum (http://www.mandarintools.com), ZDT (I think it's got a web browser) Wenlin, or Wakan to browse, and tell it to automatically convert web pages to simplified. I use Dimsum to add Pinyin as well as convert to Simplified.

[Quest]

It looks like just intros to the stories are available.

You have the click the picture where it says 開始閱讀:

I don't like the Cantonese reading style, especially for dialogues and quotes, they didn't convert them to colloquial Cantonese.

[in_lab]

I missed that. Thanks!