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Chinese Media: Read a Newspaper in Chinese
This series of five intermediate Goals covers 1,220 common Chinese words and expressions that you need to know in order to understand Chinese newspapers and magazines. Most of the sample sentences focus on the kind of societal commentary you see in today’s press, both in style and content. Mastering these items will give you a solid foundation in written Chinese and the more formal side of spoken Chinese. This series is aimed at students who have studied Chinese for at least one year. Second-year students of Chinese at the university level should start with the first course in the series, Chinese Media: Lesson 1. Third-year students should probably jump ahead to Lesson 2 or 3.
Partner: Smart.fm
5 goals 1,220 2,189
Master Chinese Characters
This series teaches the 2,700 most important Chinese characters. These characters collectively represent over 98% of the characters used in written form in newspapers and other journalistic essays. Mastering these 2,700 characters is the key to achieving literacy in Chinese. The first course, Level 1, assumes little or no prior knowledge of Chinese characters, while Level 10 is for very advanced learners. Our selection of characters represents an attempt to strike a balance between the most common characters and the most useful ones, with a focus on characters necessary for reading journals, essays, and newspaper articles. Consulting frequency lists, our staff of experienced native-speaker instructors chose characters that, in their judgment, (1) are pertinent to society, culture, science and technology, business and economics, administration, politics, military affairs, the environment, and other current issues of international importance; and (2) are useful in understanding the main ideas of prose conveying factual information and the writer’s opinion.
Partner: TaipeiProgram
10 goals 2,706 2,624
Beat the SAT Verbal
The two Goals in this series cover 500 of the most frequently tested words on the SAT. Master these to ace the verbal section.
Partner: Smart.fm
2 goals 500 6,725
Master Erudite English
Think you’re smart? Wait until you see the words we’ve got in store for you. Impress your friends and colleagues with your high IQ vocabulary!
Partner: Smart.fm
2 goals 154 4,605
Learn the Countries of the World
This series helps you master the names and locations of over 250 countries around the world. The series is split into five Goals covering the following regions: Europe, America and the Caribbean, Asian and Oceania, Africa and the Middle East, and the Polar countries. Each item is an image of a country, and the response (the country’s name) is provided with audio.
Partner: Smart.fm
4 goals 201 2,865
Mastering the Capitals of the World
This series of four Goals covers the world’s 230 major capitals in four parts: Africa and the Middle East, the Americas and the Caribbean, Asia, and Europe.
Partner: Smart.fm
4 goals 230 1,479
Core 2000: Master the Most Important Kanji
This series of ten Goals covers 2,000 of the most commonly used words in Japanese. Each item in this series has an example sentence with both audio and image. The audio was recorded by two well-known Japanese voice talents: Yuko Kaida and Yukitoshi Tokumoto. Mastering these 2,000 items and sentences will give you enough to feel comfortable in most everyday situations. All the essential verbs, adjectives, adverbs and the most important nouns are included here, as well as numerous examples of the nuances of formal and casual speech. You’ll also become acquainted with suru-verbs, na- adjectives, and other intricacies of the Japanese grammar.Note:This series is identical to “Master the Top 2,000 Words in Japanese” series apart from the fact that it only includes items from that series which contain kanji.
Partner: Smart.fm
10 goals 1,648 4,999
Core 2000: Master the Top 2,000 Words in Japanese
This series of ten Goals covers 2,000 of the most commonly used words in Japanese. Each item in this series has an example sentence with both audio and image. The audio was recorded by two well-known Japanese voice talents: Yuko Kaida and Yukitoshi Tokumoto. Mastering these 2,000 items and sentences will give you enough to feel comfortable in most everyday situations. All the essential verbs, adjectives, adverbs and the most important nouns are included here, as well as numerous examples of the nuances of formal and casual speech. You’ll also become acquainted with suru-verbs, na- adjectives, and other intricacies of the Japanese grammar.
Partner: Smart.fm
10 goals 2,000 40,301
Core 6000: Mastering Intermediate Japanese
This series picks up where the Japanese Core 2000 left off, covering the next 4,000 most important words in Japanese. So when you finish both series, you’ll have mastered 6,000 items. The series contains a total of 12 Goals that cover quite challenging intermediate and upper-intermediate items. This series is for the learner of Japanese who has already mastered the basics and can get by in most everyday situations. Once you have completed this series, you’ll have a solid command of spoken Japanese, and you should be able to follow the majority of what you read in newspapers.
Partner: Smart.fm
12 goals 4,000 6,189
Learn Japanese with the Hiragana Times
Welcome to Hir@gana Times series!! ※Thank you for being interested in Hir@gana Times contents. We are sorry but not updating new goals for Dec 2009 issue. Hiragana Times—the magazine that introduces the real Japan to the world. Hiragana Times has been published since 1986 and has readers in more than 90 countries. It introduces the real Japan to foreigners by looking at Japan as an attractive, unique town in the global village.The magazine includes information about living in Japan as well as information about mastering communication with Japanese. Inside Hiragana Times, the world of Japan becomes reality, and one can experience the cultural frontier between Japan and the rest of the world. This series features numerous Goals taken from recent issues of the magazine.Here is a compilation of “Insight into Japan” stories published in the Hiragana Times. While you are listening to the audio, you can read the text and turn the pages just like a print magazine. You can also download and print the texts. In addition, you can download the audio to mobile devices such as an iPod.Digital Books: Audio SeriesPlease visit Hiragana Times to find more information about us!
Partner: HiraganaTimes
18 goals 440 1,711
Master Hiragana & Katakana
The Japanese written language is composed of three writing systems. At its heart are kanji, or Chinese characters, so called because they are derived from Chinese. These number in the tens of thousands. The other two writing systems are the hiragana and the katakana syllabary, each numbering 48 basic characters. Each hiragana character has an exact corresponding katakana character and vice versa.This series covers the basic hiragana and katakana characters, along with the diacritics and combinations (when combined with a second character, it is always written one size smaller) that make up the standard possible sound spectrum for the Japanese language, for a total of 104.Each of the standard 48 characters also include stroke order animations within the application so that beginner users can also learn the correct way to write them.
Partner: Smart.fm
2 goals 208 18,209