languagefan Posted June 23, 2006 at 02:25 AM Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 at 02:25 AM Hey everybody I've been building a website for those learning Chinese. The website is called ZapChinese and it offers free lessons, including grammar, vocabulary and useful phrases lessons. All the resources have audio files allowing you to hear the pronunciation of the words and sounds in Chinese, and it also offers small videos helping you to write Chinese characters. http://www.zapchinese.com/ (Learn Chinese - ZapChinese) I really want to improve the website and build a great resource for those learning Chinese so any suggestions and opinion are more than welcome. Xie Xie, Take care Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badr Posted June 25, 2006 at 07:40 PM Report Share Posted June 25, 2006 at 07:40 PM looks promising but maybe you want to cut down a bit on those ads... there is more advertising than content at this point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
languagefan Posted June 25, 2006 at 10:01 PM Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2006 at 10:01 PM thanks for your suggestion...I'll take it into consideration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerfu Posted June 26, 2006 at 03:03 AM Report Share Posted June 26, 2006 at 03:03 AM It's difficult to find the lessons. Links are broken or non-existant. (sh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted June 26, 2006 at 03:12 AM Report Share Posted June 26, 2006 at 03:12 AM I'm all in favor of webmasters making money from their sites, but you've got more ads than content on there, and it makes it hard to find what useful stuff you do have (the videos of writing characters are nice, for example, but how many users actually get that far). I'd take off the majority of the ads, concentrate on building links and traffic for a while, and then when you're established as a useful site, bring some ads back in. Currently it just looks like an Adsense vehicle, and that's a turn-off. I don't know how many 'help people learn Chinese' sites there are, but there must be dozens of half-way credible ones, and hundreds of mostly rubbish ones. If all that energy was actually harnessed we wouldn't need oil any more. Roddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weronika Posted June 28, 2006 at 06:06 AM Report Share Posted June 28, 2006 at 06:06 AM Practical chinese reader, hanyu jiaocheng, Pimsleur mandarin books online free! It's for absolute beginners. HANYU JIAOCHENG http://www.1th.net/goodchinese/2006/ebook/ch1.CHM http://www.1th.net/goodchinese/2006/ebook/ch1-2.CHM http://www.1th.net/goodchinese/2006/ebook/ch.chm PRACTICAL CH reader http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/10-is-chinese-grammar-easy-dont-you-just-love-chinese-words945 http://ktmatu.com/chinese/practical-chinese-reader/ http://ktmatu.com/chinese/practical-...der/links.html http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/PCRopen/selftest.htm PIMSLEUR mandarin http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/9165-full-transcript-for-pimsleur-i-lessons-1-14&highlight=pimsleur http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/8987-pimsleur-wordlist-here&highlight=pimsleur http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/7511-pimsleur-mandarin-ii-vocabulary&highlight=pimsleur veronika Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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