The DVD Journey Through China has been adapted from a large-scale TV special cultural series bearing the same title. The program has been broadcast in North America via the SCOLA satellite television network, and Channel 2 of China Education Television (CETV-2). The series has been warmly received by audience at home and abroad.
Features of the DVD:
Select topics on Chinese culture interesting to foreigners;
On-the-spot reports as well as historical accounts presented by multimedia materials providing audience with an in-depth experience of some cultural phenomena and a better understanding of Chinese culture;
Hosted by foreigners who offer, from unique perspectives, their understanding of the ideology and spirit of Chinese revealed in some cultural phenomena;
Narrations and interpretations of the same cultural phenomenon by specialists, people involved and ordinary spectators presenting views from multiple perspectives.
This product is fit for students with a Chinese learning experience of 3~6 months. They have learned the basics of Chinese pronunciation and acquired a certain number of Chinese words.
It gives priority to the practicability of language learning, thus rapidly enhancing students’ Chinese speaking skills in real life.
The situational conversations are based on the most common real-life situations to help foreigners get familiarized with China’s social environment.
It not only serves as a Chinese textbook, but also as an emergency Chinese speaking guidebook for foreigners, who live, study, work or travel in China.
The accompanying DVD and MP3 help improve the effectiveness of learning. The former provides explanations by the anchorpersons as well as conversations in real-life situations; the latter provides standard Chinese at slow and regular speeds.
DVD (Mandarin, With MP3, Publication) / 2011 / () /
This product is fit for students with a Chinese learning experience of 3~6 months. They have learned the basics of Chinese pronunciation and acquired a certain number of Chinese words.
It gives priority to the practicability of language learning, thus rapidly enhancing students’ Chinese speaking skills in real life.
The situational conversations are based on the most common real-life situations to help foreigners get familiarized with China’s social environment.
It not only serves as a Chinese textbook, but also as an emergency Chinese speaking guidebook for foreigners, who live, study, work or travel in China.
The accompanying DVD and MP3 help improve the effectiveness of learning. The former provides explanations by the anchorpersons as well as conversations in real-life situations; the latter provides standard Chinese at slow and regular speeds.
DVD (Mandarin, With MP3, Publication) / 2011 / () /
Chinese Language Video for the Classroom (Intermediate Level)
Abundant in materials, this is an audio-visual product for Chinese language instruction, which can not only provide Chinese language teachers with video resources, but also serve as a self-teaching material for learners.
The subjects and language materials cover virtually all the communicative functions, situations and topics that appear in commonly used Chinese textbooks at the present time.
The difficulty of vocabulary, grammar items and linguistic functions was decided on the basis of learners’ actual levels of language proficiency.
The situational dialogues were performed by professional actors and actresses and were shot on the spot in order to ensure the authenticity of the language, context and culture.
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~ 2004年《漢字宮》獲得“好萊塢國際電影電視節新星獎最佳創意獎”
The Maze of Chinese Characters
At present, a new trilingual DVD version is being distributed on a global scale, which is a large-scale instruction film presenting the knowledge about Chinese characters. It will tremendously benefit people who have a passion for Chinese culture and Chinese characters. The versions of French, German and other languages would be launched in the near future. "The Maze of Chinese Characters" adopts an artistic approach to present Chinese characters. In accordance with the morphological features of each Chinese character, it incorporates them into a lovely witty story, giving us a charming rendering of the lives of working people through three leading roles: Grandpa, the ancestor of Chinese culture, and two children. Each group of characters is introduced in one story and each story is a separate chapter. With the aid of high-tech visual effects, the combination of virtual reality and two-dimensional, three-dimensional animation, it transforms the stiff and boring characters into vivid figures and interrelated scenarios. It achieves visualization, livelihood and funniness of Chinese learning, freeing us from the tedious and painful process of memorizing horizontal strokes, vertical strokes, falling strokes, turning strokes and simple dots in the traditional way. By mastering new characters, learners will feel refreshed physically and mentally while enriching knowledge in the meantime, which can be seemingly effortless but surprisingly fruitful. Each episode of pictographic characters lasts 6 minutes, presenting 4-6 Chinese characters. This section of the series introduces about 200 frequently used Chinese characters, in an attempt to enable the beginners not only to know the characters but also to master the Chinese phonetic alphabet and stroke order of each character. It could easily evolve the Chinese learners to enjoy the learning experience immensely of "recognizing the characters and understanding the texts".
3 DVDs (Chinese, English, and Spanish, With Chinese, English, Spanish Subtitles) / 2010 / () /
This product is fit for any beginners who are interested in Chinese language. Every one of them will be able to enjoy the learning of Chinese whether or not they have previous Chinese learning experience.
It doesn’t contain complicated grammar rules or instruction of Chinese characters; instead, it presents phrases and short sentences used in real-life situations and enables students to learn the most useful expressions in Chinese within the shortest time.
It compares the differences and similarities between Chinese culture and foreign cultures and introduces contemporary Chinese culture, thus helping foreigners communicate with Chinese people appropriately and effectively.
DVD (Mandarin, With MP3, Publication) / 2010 / () /
Easy Chinese - Understanding Chinese Ⅱ
This product is fit for any beginners who are interested in Chinese language. Every one of them will be able to enjoy the learning of Chinese whether or not they have previous Chinese learning experience.
It doesn’t contain complicated grammar rules or instruction of Chinese characters; instead, it presents phrases and short sentences used in real-life situations and enables students to learn the most useful expressions in Chinese within the shortest time.
It compares the differences and similarities between Chinese culture and foreign cultures and introduces contemporary Chinese culture, thus helping foreigners communicate with Chinese people appropriately and effectively.
DVD (Mandarin, With MP3, Publication) / 2010 / () /
This is an ideal product for non-native Chinese speakers who are interested in Chinese culture and want to gain a deep understanding of the phenomena behind it. It will lead you into the fascinating treasure-house of Chinese culture to explore its magic and profoundness.
It includes a total of 45 episodes, each focusing on a cultural topic with a wide coverage of information and lasting about 6 minutes.
It is presented in various forms, such as live shooting, recurrence of scenes, narration of anchorpersons, and demonstration of cartoons, etc. Various cultural phenomena which are hard to be expressed in words are presented through vivid images.
Chinese words and sentences related to the topic of the episode are taught at the end of each episode to help students learn Chinese language while understanding the culture.
Some topics are also presented with video clips to demonstrate how to make Chinese handicrafts so that viewers can learn to do it while watching the program.
Chinese Language Video for the Classroom(Beginning Level) I
A new DVD series designed for Chinese language teachers to use as supplementary materials to enhance their classroom-based CFL instruction. The series offers short language videos at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels. Topics and language content were selected based on a close examination of CFL textbooks currently used in the U.S. and Canada. Authentic and pedagogical materials cover many common linguistic and communicative functions used in everyday Chinese.
DVD (Mandarin, With Simplified and Traditional Chinese Subtitles, Publication) / 2007 / () /
Chinese Language Video for the Classroom(Beginning Level) II
A new DVD series designed for Chinese language teachers to use as supplementary materials to enhance their classroom-based CFL instruction. The series offers short language videos at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels. Topics and language content were selected based on a close examination of CFL textbooks currently used in the U.S. and Canada. Authentic and pedagogical materials cover many common linguistic and communicative functions used in everyday Chinese.
DVD (Mandarin, With Simplified and Traditional Chinese Subtitles, Publication) / 2007 / () /
Chinese Language Video for the Classroom(Beginning Level) III
A new DVD series designed for Chinese language teachers to use as supplementary materials to enhance their classroom-based CFL instruction. The series offers short language videos at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels. Topics and language content were selected based on a close examination of CFL textbooks currently used in the U.S. and Canada. Authentic and pedagogical materials cover many common linguistic and communicative functions used in everyday Chinese.
DVD (Mandarin, With Simplified and Traditional Chinese Subtitles, Publication) / 2007 / () /
As the follow-up to China Panorama - Approaching Chinese, this course is designed for individuals with basic knowledge of grammar and a vocabulary of 1,000 words. Upon completion of the course one can easily communicate in Chinese.
The material is based on various aspects of foreigners' life in China, focusing on what is both practical and relevant by using actual locations and real performances by actors, to create a genuine, realistic environment for the student.
Four subtitle choices are available: Chinese, English, Korean and Pinyin. For each chapter the new language points are taken from the dialogs and explained in detail. Furthermore, the DVD includes vocabulary study options.
Learning advanced Chinese and China business skills at the same time.
This 50-unit course is ideal for intermediate and advanced learners of Chinese.
Specially designed for foreigners doing business in China, the course teaches some practical expressions in international business and trade.
The course evolves around the growth of a foreign business in China and introduces the country’s business environment, business policy and business practices.
While painting a vivid picture of the life of average Chinese and making cross-culture comparisons, the course serves as a valuable reference book for international trade and transnational business operation.
You will be able to learn idiomatic spoken Chinese while enjoying an intriguing plot!
Practicability is what features this Chinese phonetics introduction program –
With overseas learners of Chinese as the targeted users, a systematic teaching of pinyin is given respecting initials, finals, tones as well as its spelling.
A complete English explanation is applied to depict how and where the initials and finals of pinyin are enunciated physically. Moreover, such sounds are not only demonstrated by voice but also cartoon pictures.
Cartoons are again employed to display syllable and word combination procedures and facilitate similar sound comparisons and contracts, reinforced by the demonstration reading. Appropriate intervals are left for the learner to repeat and follow up.
Dialogs are en facto pragmatic situational scenes which encompass focuses of learning in each episode. Baldness of syllables and words detailing could be thereby rendered into useful conversations for students.
Pronunciation points are incorporated into interesting situational dialogues.
Difficult points in Chinese phonetics are evenly distributed throughout the program. A large number of read-along exercise are deigned for key points. In addition, Similar, commonly- -mistaken sounds are paired and drilled extensively to make Learning more efficient.
The practical orienrarion of the program is reflected in its stress on imitation. Explanations are kept to a minimum; the focus is on drilling difficult syllables and tones to help learners master natural and standard Chinese pronunciation.
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第11課： 巧克力薄甜餅
第12課： 新婚早餐
第13課： 最佳動物
第14課： 鬼火
第15課： 白髮
第16課： 聽聲音
第17課： 白癡
第18課： 爭辯
第19課： 誰也不吃虧
第20課： 傷心故事
Watch Jokes Happily and Learn Chinese Easily.
Fun Ways to Learn Chinese is a serial program to teach you the Chinese language in an easy and happy atmosphere. Based on short cartoon jokes told by a professional actor, each lesson consists of a short humorous story through which you will learn three common words or phrases and two idiomatic sentences.
Following this program step by step you will master the daily Chinese in a very short time, in an easy and fun way.
Watch 20 cartoon jokes and you'll grasp 57common words and
20sentences.
Lesson 1 Nothing Serious
Lesson 2 Partiality
Lesson 3 Stay Up Late Until 3 O'clock
Lesson 4 What Should Granny Say?
Lesson 5 Any Drinks?
Lesson 6 Taxi Driver
Lesson 7 An Old Lady Taking Plane
Lesson 8 The Signals Changed
Lesson 9 To Soak The Clothes
Lesson 10 Meeting A"Ghost"On The Phone
Lesson 11 A Thin Crisp Chocolate Cake
Lesson 12 Breakfast
Lesson 13 The Best Animal
Lesson 14 Elf Fire
Lesson 15 White Hair
Lesson 16 What Are You Listening To?
Lesson 17 Idiot
Lesson 18 The Quibble
Lesson 19 Even
Lesson 20 Sad Story
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
Watch Jokes Happily and Learn Chinese Easily.
Fun Ways to Learn Chinese is a serial program to teach you the Chinese language in an easy and happy atmosphere. Based on short cartoon jokes told by a professional actor, each lesson consists of a short humorous story through which you will learn three common words or phrases and two idiomatic sentences.
Following this program step by step you will master the daily Chinese in a very short time, in an easy and fun way.
Watch 20 cartoon jokes and you'll grasp 58 common words and 20sentences.
Lesson 21 Before Or After Dinner
Lesson 22 Take Him To The Cooler
Lesson 23 Weather Forecast
Lesson 24 Shaving
Lesson 25 4 Dollars
Lesson 26 My Wild Wife
Lesson 27 They Search For Us With A Lantern
Lesson 28 Well Done
Lesson 29 A Madman On The Highway
Lesson 30 Taxi Fare
Lesson 31 A Quick-witted Announcer
Lesson 32 A Child's Words Don't Matter
Lesson 33 An Escaped Kangaroo
Lesson 34 Watching With An Eye
Lesson 35 The Best Audience
Lesson 36 IQ Testing Device
Lesson 37 Help
Lesson 38 Someone Is Still Occupied
Lesson 39 Who Is He?
Lesson 40 Mistake
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
Fun Ways to Learn Chinese is a serial program to teach you the Chinese language in an easy and happy atmosphere. Based on short cartoon jokes told by a professional actor, each lesson consists of a short humorous story through which you will learn three common words or phrases and two idiomatic sentences.
Following this program step by step you will master the daily Chinese in a very short time, in an easy and fun way.
Watch 20 cartoon jokes and you'll grasp 57common words and 20sentences.
41. Surprise
42. Spoon
43. The Brave Man
44. The Power Of The Toile
45. Sign On The Expressway
46. Golden bar
47. Landing The Sun
48. Camel
49. Date
50. Mum's Rules
51. Boast
52. Give Him A Lesson
53. Mistaken Love
54. Sudden Love
55. Football Field And Graveyard
56. Baked
57. To Hang Oneself
58. This Is Called Laziness
59. Complaints
60. Beat Around The Bush
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
Fun Ways to Learn Chinese is a serial program to teach you the Chinese language in an easy and happy atmosphere. Based on short cartoon jokes told by a professional actor, each lesson consists of a short humorous story through which you will learn three common words or phrases and two idiomatic sentences.
Following this program step by step you will master the daily Chinese in a very short time, in an easy and fun way.
Lesson 61. Abstract Painting
Lesson 62. Take Medicine
Lesson 63. Sorry
Lesson 64. Who Is that?
Lesson 65. From Which Country?
Lesson 66. Head Exercise
Lesson 67. To Find Joy In One??s Own Way
Lesson 68. The Woman Who Loves You Best
Lesson 69. The Difference
Lesson 70. Across English-Channel
Lesson 71. One's Own Profession
Lesson 72. Recovery
Lesson 73. To Deserve One's Reputation
Lesson 74. It's Difficult To Tell Who Will Win
Lesson 75. The Most Cheerful Audience
Lesson 76. It's Good To Get Up Early
Lesson 77. Reply
Lesson 78. French Pub
Lesson 79. Have The Boss
Lesson 80. Unexpected Enthusiasm
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
Fun Ways to Learn Chinese is a serial program to teach you the Chinese language in an easy and happy atmosphere. Based on short cartoon jokes told by a professional actor, each lesson consists of a short humorous story through which you will learn three common words or phrases and two idiomatic sentences.
Following this program step by step you will master the daily Chinese in a very short time, in an easy and fun way.
Watch 20 cartoon jokes and you'll grasp 58 common words and 20 sentences.
Lesson 81. Awful
Lesson 82. Obedient
Lesson 83. Price
Lesson 84. Only God Can Pass It
Lesson 85. Price
Lesson 86. To Change
Lesson 87. Call The Police
Lesson 88. Requested By The Audience
Lesson 89. Give It To Me
Lesson 90. Wait For 10 Minutes
Lesson 91. No Compromise
Lesson 92. Plastic Surgery
Lesson 93. Cock-a-hoop
Lesson 94. To Abide By The Law
Lesson 95. Iced Coffee
Lesson 96. An Overweight Girl's Confession
Lesson 97. Healthy Skin
Lesson 98. Proposing
Lesson 99. Very Calm
Lesson 100. Cathartic
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
Fun Ways to Learn Chinese is a serial program to teach you the Chinese language in an easy and happy atmosphere. Based on short cartoon jokes told by a professional actor, each lesson consists of a short humorous story through which you will learn three common words or phrases and two idiomatic sentences.
Following this program step by step you will master the daily Chinese in a very short time, in an easy and fun way.
Watch 30 cartoon jokes and you'll grasp 85 common words and 30 sentences.
101. Weight
102. Joking
103. The Most Ugly Painting
104. Itching
105. To Sum Up
106. Best Festival
107. Guess Again
108. Kindness And Catch A Cold
109. The Memory Is Still Fresh
110. To Raise The Hand
111. A Stingy Wife
112. Lost Property Hunting
113. Encounter
114. Shooter
115. To My Only Love
116. Hunter And Bear
117. Hospitality
118. Belated Faint
119. E-mail's Trouble
120. Matchmaking
121. Sharpshooter
122. Ready To Take Off
123. The Car Accident
124. Like This
125. To Prescribe Medicine According To The Disease
126. Run Out Of Energy
127. Plug
128. Sleeping Pills
129. To Like Someone
130. An Ideal House
3 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
This series is designed for you to learn Chinese in a happy and easy atmosphere; vivid funny cartoons; intonation and standard pronunciation will sure arouse your interest in Chinese and help you grasp it as a piece of cake. Each joke is translated into English which improves your comprehension of the text.
11. Sad Story
12. Sudden Love
13. An Old Lady Taking Plane
14. Meeting a"Ghost"on the phone
15. Shaving
16. Any Drinks?
17. E-mail's Trouble
18. Recovery
19. Spoon
20. Call the Police
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
This series is designed for you to learn Chinese in a happy and easy atmosphere; vivid funny cartoons; intonation and standard pronunciation will sure arouse your interest in Chinese and help you grasp it as a piece of cake. Each joke is translated into English which improves your comprehension of the text.
21. Take Him into the Icehouse
22. A Thin Crisp Chocolate Cake
23. French Pub
24 . Someone is Still Occupied
25. Surprise
26. Nothing Serious
27. Taxi Driver
28. A Quick-witted Announcer
29. Date
30 . My Wild Wife
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
This series is designed for you to learn Chinese in a happy and easy atmosphere; vivid funny cartoons; intonation and standard pronunciation will sure arouse your interest in Chinese and help you grasp it as a piece of cake. Each joke is translated into English which improves your comprehension of the text.
31. Landing the Sun
32. Give Him a Lesson
33. Boast
34. What should Granny say?
35. Unexpected Enthusiasm
36. The Brave Man
37. The Woman Who Loves You Best
38. The Best Audience
39 . IQ Testing Device
40. Idiot
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
This series is designed for you to learn Chinese in a happy and easy atmosphere; vivid funny cartoons; intonation and standard pronunciation will sure arouse your interest in Chinese and help you grasp it as a piece of cake. Each joke is translated into English which improves your comprehension of the text.
41. Stay up late until 3 O'clock
42. The Most Cheerful Audience
43. One's Own Profession
44. A Madman On the Highway
45. Sorry
46. Cock-a-hoop
47. Belated Faint
48. Who is He
49. Have the Boss
50. It's Good to Get up Early
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /
This series is designed for you to learn Chinese in a happy and easy atmosphere; vivid funny cartoons; intonation and standard pronunciation will sure arouse your interest in Chinese and help you grasp it as a piece of cake. Each joke is translated into English which improves your comprehension of the text.
1. The Best animal
2. Awful
3. Sign on the Expressway
4. Beat Around the Bush
5. Before or after Dinner
6. Help
7. This is called Laziness
8. The Power of the Toilet Bout
9. Well Done
10. An Escaped Kangaroo
2 DVDs (Mandarin, English, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles, Publication) / / () /