Updated Wilmington Mandarin Course Textbook Files Now Available

Updated Wilmington Mandarin course textbook files, dated August 22, 2013, are now available for download from the Mandarin Course from Wilmington page (courses short link: tiandi.info/courses).

Here is a comment from the creator of these files about this update:

“The audio files have not changed. I simply changed some formatting and expanded a couple of pages (for example: The section on "zhidao" and "renshi" was really short. I made it into a full page instead of half a page.)”

Also of note is that in view of the recently released Chinese Insight book omitting the section on p. 328 of the English Insight book that discusses the Chinese character “船 (chuán)”, the paragraph on p. 9 of the Wilmington Mandarin course textbook that previously mentioned “船” has been rewritten to no longer mention this character and the unprovable speculation about it.

Recreated Resource: Wilmington Mandarin Course Page

The Mandarin Course from Wilmington page (courses short link: tiandi.info/courses), which used to be on www.chinesetools.net, has been recreated on troubadourworks.com/tiandi.

Not only has it been recreated, the following new files are now available on it:

• New PDF textbook files, dated Sept. 28, 2012
• MP3 audio files for Lessons 17 and 18

Work on recreating Chinese field resources at troubadourworks.com/tiandi is continuing, so check back here regularly for updates.

Wilmington Course Audio Files Added for Lessons 1 and 2

New MP3 audio files, for Lessons 1 and 2, are now available for download on the Mandarin Course from Wilmington page.

Wilmington Course Audio Files Added for Lessons 11-13

New MP3 audio files, for Lessons 11 to 13, are now available for download on the Mandarin Course from Wilmington page.

Wilmington Course Audio Files Added for Lesson 8

New MP3 audio files, for Lesson 8, are now available for download on the Mandarin Course from Wilmington page.

Wilmington Course Audio Files Added for Lessons 9 and 10

New MP3 audio files, for Lessons 9 and 10, are now available for download on the Mandarin Course from Wilmington page.

Wilmington Course Audio Files Added for Lessons 5-7

New MP3 audio files, for Lessons 5 to 7, are now available for download on the Mandarin Course from Wilmington page.

Wilmington Course PDF Files Updated

The PDF files available for download on the Mandarin Course from Wilmington page have been updated. The new files are dated May 9, and they now have a Table of Contents near the beginning, in addition to the Index at the end.

Also, as noted on the download page, in each file the headings in the Table of Contents and in the Index act as links to the indicated sections of the file. The headings of those sections in turn act as links back to the Table of Contents.

Wilmington Mandarin Course Page Now Available

The theo. Mandarin course materials that were prepared in Wilmington, Delaware, USA are now available for download on the Mandarin Course from Wilmington page.

The textbook is an updated version of the Philadelphia Mandarin course textbook. The one who created the course made an instructor’s version of the textbook (containing the quiz in lesson 12) and a student’s version (which does not contain the quiz). The page numbers line up between the two versions. The textbook files are in PDF format, with Link Navigation and Annotation support.

Some supporting MP3 audio files are available for download as well.

Thanks go out to those who produced these materials and made them available for other Chinese-learners to benefit from.