Require Br. Material Up to Ch. 14 Posted

Require br. material up to ch. 14 has been posted on the Chinese, Pinyin, & English Require Br. page. Previously, only material up to ch. 13 was available.

Pinyin Great Teacher Book Available

A version of the Great Teacher book with Simplified characters and pinyin is now available from the Publications (Mandarin) page. Many thanks to those who helped make this available.

The plan is for there to eventually be material for this book with added English as well, for those who prefer that, but at this point it is uncertain when it will begin to become available.

More Philadelphia Course Audio Files

More audio files have been received for the Philadelphia Mandarin course, replacing and expanding upon the audio files previously available. The audio files for this course have been reorganized according to the lesson they are for, and new download links have been created for them on the Philadelphia Chinese Course page.

Songbook alternative files Link

The Songbook alternative files link listed in recent Links emails is no longer working. For access to these files, please email D. Herrmann. I am still working on the next Links email update, which will include this change along with others.

New Version of CWPS for Word 2000+

Here is a message from the creator of CWPS:

A new version of CWPS (for Word 2000+) has been posted. Some improvements are:

• More extensive Mandarin and Cantonese dictionaries.


• Improved flashcards with 10 levels of difficulty.


• Easier installation.


• Improved dictionary searches.


• Built-in help file.


• Improved support for different Cantonese romanization schemes.


• Improved text conversion options to add pinyin and/or English to Chinese characters.

The installation password is unchanged. Existing usernames and passwords will continue to work with the new version.

Pinyin Songbook Revised

Here is a message from the one who produced the pinyin songbook:

A revised version of the pinyin songbook is now available on the Publications (Mandarin) page. There is also a page showing corrections that can be made manually to earlier versions to save reprinting the whole book. A few corrections have also been made to tones and Chinese characters but these do not appear in the list of corrections as they will not affect the way the songs are sung.