Monday, June 14, 2010

Chinese Vocabulary--Several new Areas-Literature, Computers, etc.

I've added some new Chinese and English vocabulary pages that are available from my Lingopath site.  You can go to the pages directly using the links below, or from the Lingopath home page, click on the Chinese Language and Culture link in the middle column and scroll down to the Chinese & English Vocabulary Heading, where you will also find a number of other vocabulary links.  The new Chinese Vocabulary pages are:

Literature
Computers
Topics, Opinions & Situations
Some World Leaders  (already a little out of date in the 3 weeks since I put it up)
Some People in the China Connection  (includes hanzi and pinyin for some modern Chinese leaders).

A lot of people studying a language are also interested in or at least exposed during their study to literature.  The Literature Chinese vocabulary page that I just posted addresses vocabulary for literature in general.  I am working on a separate page for Chinese Literature, that I am not ready to post yet.  I have also been thinking of adding some well known names from Western Literature, perhaps as a separate page, because the first one about literature is already reasonably long.  

The Computer vocabulary page is a start to a page, that I would definitely like to add more to. 

I thought that having some World leaders' names in hanzi and pinyin might help us if we attempt to read international news in Chinese.  A number of modern Chinese political leaders' names are in included in hanzi and pinyin on the Some People in the China Connection page, though there are a number of names there of Non-Chinese that are not shown in any real or attempted Chinese form.  I do intend at some point to address the issue of characters that are most commonly used to transcribe or gloss non=Chinese names.  I have included a lot of Wikipedia links on the World Leader and the China Connection pages.  I would like to add a lot of names on the scholarly side to the China Connection page..