"Gaos friend" Chinese text with voice and annotations

mandarinboy

September 17, 2008, 08:11 PM posted in General Discussion

This is a very short text suitable for newbie/elementary students. 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, annotation with pinyin and finally one with the text and voice

高小姐的朋友

高小姐的朋友叫海伦。海伦*是美国人。她会说法文﹐她的法文好极了。她也会说日文﹐她的日文也很好。现在﹐她学中文。她会说中文﹐也会写汉字。每天晚上﹐海伦学中文。她看中文书﹐听中文录音﹐写汉字。她学习很努力。有时候﹐她也看电视﹐听美国音乐。

(选自《实用汉语》第一册﹐113字)

海伦﹕person's name.

57 unique characters [27 more than once] (115 in total) : 她 9 文 9 中 5 的 4 海 4 伦 4 也 4 会 4 说 3 学 3 字 3 汉 3 小 2 朋 2 美 2 高 2 法 2 姐 2 好 2 日 2 友 2 音 2 写 2 国 2 听 2 很 2 看 2 叫 1 是 1 极 1 人 1 在 1 了 1 现 1 每 1 天 1 晚 1 上 1 录 1 书 1 习 1 努 1 力 1 有 1 时 1 候 1 电 1 视 1 乐 1 选 1 自 1 实 1 用 1 语 1 第 1 一 1 册 1

 

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/gao/gaob.html

Status bar annotation:

http://www.euroasiasoftware.com/texts/gao/gaos.html

Pinyin annotation

http://www.euroasiasoftware.com/texts/gao/gaop.html

Original text without annotation but with sound (traditional. characters).

http://faculty.virginia.edu/cll/chinese_reading/Beginning/beginning6audio.html