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Chinese Language Resources Online
According to Euro-Marketing Associates, there are nearly 900 million people who can read Chinese, the largest group in the world, and approximately 6.4 million of them use the Internet. Over the past three years, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission has been developing the Global Chinese Language and Culture Center Online 全球華文網路教育中心 to serve overseas Chinese. As Taiwan is one of the world's largest producer of Chinese publications, with approximately 30,000 new books, more than 150 magazines, and a score of newspapers published annually, it has many advantages in terms of both language materials and information technology. The online center provides various Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Hakka courses for English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French speakers. The Chung Hwa Correspondence School 中華函授學校, established in 1940, also provides online training courses for teachers working in schools for overseas Chinese students.
Professor Chen Hsin-hsi 陳信希 of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University has developed several Taiwan Native Language Translation and Text-to-Speech Synthesizers under the sponsorship of the National Science Council. These synthesizers, which are aimed at promoting dialogues between different language groups, provide options for Zhangzhou and Quanzhou accented Taiwanese. Programs for providing literary and colloquial Taiwanese and Hakka pronunciations are also under construction. By October 2001, however, audio programs were only available in Taiwanese.
Further Reading (in Chinese unless otherwise noted):
Ang Uijin 洪惟仁. Tai-wan fang-yen chih lu 臺灣方言之旅 (An Excursion into the Dialects of Taiwan). Taipei: Avanguard Publishing Co. 前衛出版社, 1992.
Chang Tsung-chih 張宗智. "Ka-ma-lan yu te wei-lai" 噶瑪蘭語的未來 (The Future of the Kavalan Language). Taipei: Master's thesis, National Taiwan University, 1994.
Chao Yuan Ren 趙元任. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley (in English). University of California Press, 1970.
Cheng, Robert L. 鄭良偉. Yen-pien-chung te Tai-wan she-hui yu-wen: to-yu she-hui chi shuang-yu chiao-yu 演變中的臺灣社會語文：多語社會及雙語教育 (Taiwan's Society and Language in Transition: A Multilingual Society and Bilingual Education). Taipei: Independence Evening News Publishing Co.自立晚報出版社, 1990.
Forrest, R.A.D. The Chinese Language (in English). London: Faber and Faber, 1973.
Huang Tung-chiu 黃東秋, ed. Tai-wan yuan-chu-min yu-yen min-su yen-chiu 臺灣原住民語言民俗研究 (A Study of Taiwan Aborigine Languages and Customs). Taipei: Crane Publishing Co., Ltd. 文鶴出版社, 1993.
Kuo-wen tien-ti 國文天地 (The World of Chinese Language and Literature). Taipei, monthly.
Kuo-yin hsueh 國音學 (A Study of Mandarin Phonology). National Taiwan Normal University, Committee for
the Compilation of Mandarin Phonology Teaching Materials, ed. Taipei: Cheng Chung Book Co., Ltd. 正中書局, 1982; 1993.
Li Jen-kuei 李壬癸, Lin Ying-chin 林英津. Tai-wan nan-tao min-tsu mu-yu yan-chiu lun-wen chi 臺灣南島民族母語研究論文集 (Research Essays on the Mother Tongues of the Austronesian People of Taiwan). Taipei: The Educational Research Center of the Ministry of Education, 1995.
Lin Ying-chin 林英津. "Pa-ze-hai yu: pu-li ai-lan tiao-cha pao-kao" 巴則海語:埔里愛蘭調查報告 (The Pazeh Language: A Survey at the Ailan Tableland in Puli Township). The Taiwan Folkways 臺灣風物 39, no. 1 (1989).
Lo Chao-chin 羅肇錦. Ke-yu yu-fa 客語語法 (A Grammar of the Hakka Dialect). Taipei: Student Book Store 學生書局, 1985.
Kuo-yu hsueh 國語學 (A Study of the National Chinese Language). Taipei: Wunan Book Inc.五南圖書, 1990.
Norman, Jerry. Chinese (in English). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Tai-yu wen-chai 臺語文摘 (Taiwanese Digest). Taipei, monthly.
Tung Kun 董琨. Han-tzu fa-chan shih-hua 漢字發展史話 (The Evolution History of the Chinese Characters). Taipei: Taiwan Commercial Publication Co. Ltd. 臺灣商務印書館, 1993.
Yang Hsiu-fang 楊秀芳. Tai-wan Min-nan-yu yu-fa kao 臺灣閩南語語法稿 (A Grammar of the Southern Fujianese Dialect in Taiwan). Taipei: Tah-an Publishing Co. 大安出版社, 1991.

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		Chinese Language Resources Online According to Euro-Marketing Associates, there are nearly 900 million people who can read Chinese, the largest group in the world, and approximately 6.4 million of them use the Internet. Over the past three years, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission has been developing the Global Chinese Language and Culture Center Online 全球華文網路教育中心 to serve overseas Chinese. As Taiwan is one of the world's largest producer of Chinese publications, with approximately 30,000 new books, more than 150 magazines, and a score of newspapers published annually, it has many advantages in terms of both language materials and information technology. The online center provides various Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Hakka courses for English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French speakers. The Chung Hwa Correspondence School 中華函授學校, established in 1940, also provides online training courses for teachers working in schools for overseas Chinese students. Professor Chen Hsin-hsi 陳信希 of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University has developed several Taiwan Native Language Translation and Text-to-Speech Synthesizers under the sponsorship of the National Science Council. These synthesizers, which are aimed at promoting dialogues between different language groups, provide options for Zhangzhou and Quanzhou accented Taiwanese. Programs for providing literary and colloquial Taiwanese and Hakka pronunciations are also under construction. By October 2001, however, audio programs were only available in Taiwanese. Further Reading (in Chinese unless otherwise noted): Ang Uijin 洪惟仁. Tai-wan fang-yen chih lu 臺灣方言之旅 (An Excursion into the Dialects of Taiwan). Taipei: Avanguard Publishing Co. 前衛出版社, 1992. Chang Tsung-chih 張宗智. "Ka-ma-lan yu te wei-lai" 噶瑪蘭語的未來 (The Future of the Kavalan Language). Taipei: Master's thesis, National Taiwan University, 1994. Chao Yuan Ren 趙元任. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley (in English). University of California Press, 1970. Cheng, Robert L. 鄭良偉. Yen-pien-chung te Tai-wan she-hui yu-wen: to-yu she-hui chi shuang-yu chiao-yu 演變中的臺灣社會語文：多語社會及雙語教育 (Taiwan's Society and Language in Transition: A Multilingual Society and Bilingual Education). Taipei: Independence Evening News Publishing Co.自立晚報出版社, 1990. Forrest, R.A.D. The Chinese Language (in English). London: Faber and Faber, 1973. Huang Tung-chiu 黃東秋, ed. Tai-wan yuan-chu-min yu-yen min-su yen-chiu 臺灣原住民語言民俗研究 (A Study of Taiwan Aborigine Languages and Customs). Taipei: Crane Publishing Co., Ltd. 文鶴出版社, 1993. Kuo-wen tien-ti 國文天地 (The World of Chinese Language and Literature). Taipei, monthly. Kuo-yin hsueh 國音學 (A Study of Mandarin Phonology). National Taiwan Normal University, Committee for the Compilation of Mandarin Phonology Teaching Materials, ed. Taipei: Cheng Chung Book Co., Ltd. 正中書局, 1982; 1993. Li Jen-kuei 李壬癸, Lin Ying-chin 林英津. Tai-wan nan-tao min-tsu mu-yu yan-chiu lun-wen chi 臺灣南島民族母語研究論文集 (Research Essays on the Mother Tongues of the Austronesian People of Taiwan). Taipei: The Educational Research Center of the Ministry of Education, 1995. Lin Ying-chin 林英津. "Pa-ze-hai yu: pu-li ai-lan tiao-cha pao-kao" 巴則海語:埔里愛蘭調查報告 (The Pazeh Language: A Survey at the Ailan Tableland in Puli Township). The Taiwan Folkways 臺灣風物 39, no. 1 (1989). Lo Chao-chin 羅肇錦. Ke-yu yu-fa 客語語法 (A Grammar of the Hakka Dialect). Taipei: Student Book Store 學生書局, 1985. Kuo-yu hsueh 國語學 (A Study of the National Chinese Language). Taipei: Wunan Book Inc.五南圖書, 1990. Norman, Jerry. Chinese (in English). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Tai-yu wen-chai 臺語文摘 (Taiwanese Digest). Taipei, monthly. Tung Kun 董琨. Han-tzu fa-chan shih-hua 漢字發展史話 (The Evolution History of the Chinese Characters). Taipei: Taiwan Commercial Publication Co. Ltd. 臺灣商務印書館, 1993. Yang Hsiu-fang 楊秀芳. Tai-wan Min-nan-yu yu-fa kao 臺灣閩南語語法稿 (A Grammar of the Southern Fujianese Dialect in Taiwan). Taipei: Tah-an Publishing Co. 大安出版社, 1991. Copyright (C) July 2002, Government Information Office. All rights reserved. Site design by L.F. Lee Best viewed with Netscape 4.x or IE 5.x (medium font) at 800 x 600 True Color (32 bit) resolution