"A letter" Chinese text with voice and annotations

mandarinboy

September 12, 2008, 06:39 PM posted in General Discussion

This is a short text suitable for newbie/elementary. After the text there is four links to external sites where the same texts is available with regular annotation,annotation in the status bar as well as all the words in an wordlist in the end of the document, annotatation with pinyin and finaly one with the text and voice

亲爱的爸爸妈妈﹕

你们好﹗最近你们身体好吗﹖工作忙不忙﹖

我们快要考试了﹐所以我现在特别忙。从星期一到星期五﹐每天上午都去学校上课。星期二和星期四的下午我还有辅导﹐别的下午我常常去图书馆看报或者看杂志。今天是星期六﹐我有空儿﹐给你们写信。

这儿的老师和同学都很好。我现在有很多朋友。保罗是我的新朋友﹐他是上个月从英国来的。他会说法文﹐以前也学过一点儿中文。

我住的地方很不错﹕附近有很多商店和饭馆儿﹐离汽车站也很近﹐吃饭﹐坐车﹐买东西都非常方便。房东对我们很好﹐常常请我们一起吃饭。房东太太做的中国菜好吃极了﹐我特别喜欢吃她做的虾。

到这儿以后﹐我每天都锻炼身体﹐所以我身体很好﹐也没有病过﹐请爸爸﹐妈妈放心。

现在已经八点二十了﹐我该去上课了。

请常常给我来信。祝你们



健康﹗



彼得

一九九三年二月十号



(选自《实用汉语》第一册﹔字数﹕317)

Note, depending on browser version you might need to set this site as trusted to be able to view the annotations. It is the javascript that is treated as potential unsafe. The source code for the javascript is all in the document if anyone like to check the code.

Popup annotated text:

http://www.euroasiasoftware.com/texts/letter/letter.html

Status bar annotation:

http://www.euroasiasoftware.com/texts/letter/letters.html

Pinyin annotation

http://www.euroasiasoftware.com/texts/letter/letterp.html

Original text without annotation but with sound.

http://faculty.virginia.edu/cll/chinese_reading/Beginning/beginning1audio.html