Who Should Use CyberChinese: This is for high school or college students who are taking first year Chinese. CyberChinese provides students with a stimulating and responsive environment for learning and drilling Chinese. This is also for non-native speakers who are facing the challenges of learning Chinese pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. CyberChinese addresses the challenges and allows him or her to tailor the tutorial to suit individual schedules, needs and interests. This is for Chinese Language teachers as well, who can use CyberChinese as a teaching assistant. At the end of each lesson, CyberChinese grades the student's responses to the drills and prints out the results. CyberChinese has received favorable responses from both students and colleagues in Chinese language instruction. The students who have used CyberChinese call it their "Computer TA" since it is always available to the students, always ready to drill them or review them. The instructors find that it helps them assess student performance and needs. $48.00 MAC Version ISBN 1-58070-080-2 UPC 714296-00810 ©1995-2000 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved   About CyberChinese: The first year of Chinese language instruction presents three challenges to the average American student: 1) recognizing and reproducing tones and sounds; 2) memorizing and learning how to write Chinese characters; 3) mastering syntactical structures and a grammatical idiom that differs fundamentally from those of their native language. The multimedia computer tutorial CyberChinese addresses these challenges by providing students with a stimulating and responsive environment for learning and drilling pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. CyberChinese contains 12 lessons, and each lesson includes a tutorial section and an exercise section. The lesson menu allows the student to jump to any of the modules in the lesson he or she choose. CyberChinese's flexible environment gives the student control over many of its parameters, allowing him or her to tailor the tutorial to suit individual schedules, needs, and interests. At the end of the tutorial, CyberChinese grades the student's responses to the drills and prints the results.     System Requirements: This is a MAC Version CD-ROM Optimum: Power Macintosh G3 or Later, System 9.0.4, Chinese Language Kit (both Simplified and Traditional), 64 MB RAM, 32 bit color, TCP/IP network connection, DVD ROM or CD ROM drive. Minimal: Power Machintosh 7.6, Chinese Language Kit (both Simplified and Traditional), 32 MB RAM, 8 bit color, CD ROM drive. To Run CyberChinese: 1. Insert the CyberChinese CD into the CD-ROM drive. 2. Double-click CyberChinese 1.0 folder, choose and double-click CyberChinese file. Read More: To review Cyber Chinese User Manual eBooks online or Download CyberChinese User Manual eBooks for free. Click here. Price for Language Lab., Library: 1. $180.00 for 5 computers 2. $300.00 for 10 computers 3. $500.00 for 30 computers Students Discount: Students who are taking Chinese course may take 30% off the price for quantity discount starting at 10 users. Note: If you are running MAC OS 9 or later, you can install the Chinese Language Kit from the MAC OS installer CD. Simply choose "Customize Installation" and select the two versions of the Chinese Language Kit to install. Then click on the "Install" button to complete installation and restart your computer. If you are running a version of MAC OS prior to MAC OS 9, then you must install the Chinese Language Kit as a separate software package from Apple computer. We recommend that you upgrade your OS to MAC OS 9, as it and the Chinese Language Kit, are much more stable in this version of the OS.   The following screenshots show some main features of CyberChinese: Tones Explanation: This Card allows the student to see an animated graph which illustrates the contours of the four tones Sounds Multiple Choice: Students click "Play Sound" to hear a syllable or syllables pronounced and choose the correct syllable in pinyin Vocabulary Tutorial: Students are introduced to Chinese characters. The students may access more detailed information in the Character Stack. Grammar Game: Build a response sentence by dragging characters from the tree. The apples "ripen" when used. Once the sentence is completed, click on "Check Answer." If the answer is correct, you may move on!   *in stock *usually ships in 24 hours     Copyright © 1995-2008 Laser Publishing Group