CHINESE (Simplified Characters) ~ English [under construction]

Welcome to the CHINESE (simplified characters) area at Project HappyChild. Thanks to the translation (and checking) help currently being provided by people across the world (all giving their time and expertise entirely free of charge) we are in the process of building a *huge* area of free translation worksheets for children and students to use, across an increasing range of languages.

Chinese is one of the languages that is currently being worked on - see the Translators' page - so we're opening up the Chinese area now, as a first step towards making the English-Chinese-English worksheets available in due course.

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The vocabulary databases for both Simplified and Traditional characters have already been translated, and are currently being checked :)

The verbs database for Simplified characters has been translated, and Chinese Pinyin is planned to be added, for the verbs, initially. The verbs database for Traditional characters will be translated next.

Offers are still required for checking the verbs database (and Pinyin) for Simplified Characters [please e-mail penny2012 (at) happychild.org.uk , if you can help], but an offer has now been received for checking the verbs database and Pinyin for Traditional Characters.

Simplified Chinese characters are the official written language in Mainland China, so most Mandarin speakers will use them, but in places like Hong Kong (where Cantonese is usually spoken) and Taiwan, the Traditional Chinese characters are still used for the actual written language. However, some Mandarin speakers can read Traditional characters, and some Cantonese speakers can read Simplified Characters.

If you are learning Mandarin you will most likely require the worksheets for Chinese (simplified characters) which will be linked from the page here, whereas if you are learning Cantonese you will probably require the worksheets for Chinese (traditional characters) which will be linked from the page here.

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Links will be made from the table below, as soon as we're able to put the first Chinese worksheets on line. We know there's a demand for these! especially now that Chinese is being more widely taught in English-speaking schools. All that's needed, now, is for someone to offer to check the already-translated databases.

Additional offers of help for a number of languages - see the Translators' page - would also be very much appreciated, on an ongoing basis. The English-French-English area here will demonstrate how the fully-linked-in worksheets for verbs and vocabulary will fit together, for English-Chinese-English, and other languages in the series.

Special thanks go to Mario Becroft in New Zealand, for all the programming work which has made this resource possible, and to David Booker in the UK, for accelerating the output of completed worksheet sets.

Each Chinese [Simplified Characters] worksheet is designed to print onto a single A4 sheet [using IE4/IE5 browser setting for "medium text"], and may be used as a non-commercial education resource, free of charge, provided only that each worksheet is printed / photocopied without modification and includes the whole page as it appears on line.
[N.B. - In "My Computer - Internet Options - Advanced - Printing", de-select "print background colours and images"
so as to be able to print a clean black-on-white copy of each page with less use of your ink cartridge.]

It is recommended, when printing, to use the option "print pages 1 to 1" (rather than "print all pages") as each worksheet is designed to print onto a single sheet ["portrait", i.e. shorter side at the top] but because of the html may sometimes overlap onto a second for printing [the second (blank) sheet should not be required]. Draft quality is usually sufficient for a good copy - however use "presentation" if making originals for photocopying.