Welcome to the Chinese Resource Page! This is the place for Sunrise families to find links to websites, apps, and local Chinese language & cultural resources. If you have any suggestions regarding the resource page, please contact Jenny Dessent.
Local Resources
To learn more about Chinese culture classes for adults and children, ongoing exhibits, and yearly festivals including a Mid-Autumn Festival and a Chinese New Year Festival, go to the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center. The UA Confucius Institute offers classes, events, festivals, concerts, and has a popular summer camp. To learn more, go to the UA Confucius Institute. Sunrise Drive Library: We have picture books, history and culture books, mythology/fairy tale books, and some language books. The books are in English, or English/pinyin/simplified Chinese. Pima County Public Library has books, dvds, cds, and a free language program.
Asian Markets in Tucson
- Lee Lee Market: 1990 W Orange Grove Rd
- Sandyi Market: 4270 E Pima St
- GrantStone Market: 8 W Grant Rd
- G & L Import Export Asian Grocery Store: 828 E 22nd St
Language Web Resources
- Books and learning materials *purchase items with simplified characters*
- Websites for language learning:
- Confucius Institute Online micro-course
- Games-learn-Chinese
- Digital Dialects
- Arch-Chinese-Chinese/English Dictionary
- Mandarin for Me
- ichinesereader (subscription online reader)
- www.fluentu.com/ (6 Awesome Chinese Podcasts)
- https://chinesepod.com/
- yellowbridge
- wenlin software for learning Chinese (for purchase)
- languagenut (30 day free trial, then for purchase)
- memrise
- Videos
- Chineasy video on YouTube
- Chineasy (we have the book in the library)
- Two Tigers (liang zhi lao hu)
- Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf (Xi Yang Yang) *Some are geared toward older kids, some younger – there are other Xi Yang Yang videos you can click on)
- Fun Fun Elmo-Sesame Street program in Chinese
- Beva: a video website in Chinese
- Sunrise Drive students on the Morning Blend
- YouTube video about Chinese characters
- Chineasy video on YouTube
- Apps
- Joyreader chinasprout free trial and purchase link itunes purchase link
- Fun Chinese for Ages 3-10 by Studycat Limited
- ChineseSkill by ChineseSkill Co, Ltd.
- HSK Level 1 Vocab List by OnDemandWorld
- ChinesePop by Oz Apps
- Chinese Characters First Steps by Open University Worldwide
- Zen Chinese: Flashcards for learning Mandarin by Michael Betemps
- Pin Pin by Pin Pin LLC
- Pleco Chinese/English Dictionary
- Skritter – character stroke order and pronunciation
Culture Web Resources
- Articles of interest:
- Culture Websites
- Videos:
- Apps:
- Music CDs or MP3s available on Amazon
- Books
- Chinese New Year books available through Amazon.com:
- Chinese New Year books available through Amazon.com: