China Adoption Resources

The information found on this post was previously listed as a PAGE on this blog. Now that we are changing our country of adoption to Kazakhstan, I am starting a new page for that country and posting my adoption resources for the People’s Republic of China as a post. As you can see, the resources will be linked from the toolbar on the right.

ADOPTION RESOURCES

• China Center of Adoption Affairs- http://www.china-ccaa.org/frames/index_unlogin_en.jsp
• Research-China.org– http://research-china.blogspot.com/ A very informative and helpful blog by someone who knows….
• China Adopt Talk– http://chinaadopttalk.com/
• China Adoption Forecast– http://chinaadoptionforecast.com/ Plug in your login date for a predication of when you will get your referral.
• China Adoption Referral Graphs– http://people.wwc.edu/staff/stirra/china/stats/statsdisplay.htm
• Chinadopt- Adopting Children from China– http://www.pshrink.com/chinadopt/
• China Connection– http://www.chinaconnectiononline.com/ An online newsletter for those adopting from China.

LEARNING CHINESE

Large resource list– http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/chinese.htm

SPEAKING

• Learn Chinese: Audio Tutorial of Basic Chinese- http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/
• China Language.com– http://www.chinalanguage.com/
• Learning Chinese– Many resources including visual and audio tools. http://www.minmm.com/

CANTONESE

• Learn Cantonese– http://www.cantonese.ca/index.html
• Cantonese Phrases– http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/language/cantonese-phrases.html
• Cantonese Pronunciation Guide– http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Ginza/3969/discography/cantonese.html
• Learn Cantonese– http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/

MANDARIN

• Resource list including Chinese songs, poetry and more at http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/Mandarin/Mspeak/
• Pinyin Practice- audio with realaudio. Great site. http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epinyin/
• Introduction to Mandarin– http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/default.asp
• Chinese Culture and Language– a number of resources at http://qi-journal.com/Culture.asp?-token.Referrer=Culture&-token.Category=Language
• Learning Mandarin– http://home.unilang.org/main/wiki2/index.php/Chinese
• Mandarin Pronunciations– http://www.travelchinaguide.com/essential/language.htm
• Audio Phrases– http://www.chinaadviser.com/useful_chinese_phrases.html

Writing

Chinese Character Learning System- http://www.humboldt.edu/%7Ecllc/ccls/ccls.htm