OER Beginning Chinese This introductory Chinese textbook by Lin Hong of Central Oregon Community College is available in Word and as a PDF, along with supplemental slides.
Additional Open and Zero-cost Resources
Chinese resources from COERLL This collection of open Chinese materials is from the U.S. Department of Education–funded Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL).
GLOSS These freely accessible language lessons at the Global Language Online Support System are from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Click the button next to “Chinese-Mandarin” before searching to access materials for teaching and learning Mandarin.
Mandarin Chinese Ancillary Activities and OER Materials (The Pathways Project) This project, “an initiative from the Department of World Languages at Boise State University, is a collaborative network of open educational resources (OER) including instructional language teaching materials and professional development created by and uniquely for Idaho’s K-16 language teachers and students.”
MERLOT Materials for Chinese These materials for Chinese-language instruction are from MERLOT’s World Languages Collection.
