Learn Yu Wen Learn Chinese language and culture.

As promised, we strive to be wherever you are. Any medium that works for you to learn Chinese is where we will provide our materials. As another avenue toward that, here's our Twitter account.

While our core content is for sale, much of what we're going to be providing you will be free and open. In addition to our journal, we're developing free Chinese learning materials. These will take many forms. The first will be our Chinese learning blog. Then we'll be introducing Chinese learning ebooks as well.

Our current policy is to retain copyright over our writing. But once we re-organize our back catalog our plan is to publish part of our materials with a Creative Commons license. This will allow students and educators the ability to more freely use our helpful materials. And don't worry, the materials won't be watermarked: 

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How to Read E-Books

Nobody has figured out a way to read that adequately replaces the way we read traditional paper books, but that isn’t always important — and some solutions come pretty close! There are a number of ways to read e-books:

Unlike Google and many other Web 2.0 sites, we're getting out of Beta. Our backend systems are finally production ready. And there are plenty more features on the way.

You'll notice we care a great deal about what the community is telling us. Teachers especially have given us great feedback into our journal and website. One request we keep hearing is for us to give teachers a platform to discuss and collaborate on their teaching with one another. We're currently working out the best way to handle this. A Chinese teachers forum would be the obvious answer. However we're going to provide more than this.

As always, we extensively use Open Source software as our platform. Any development and customization done by our team is contributed back into the software community. Open source software is also a great way for Chinese language teachers to work with students freely without worrying about software costs.

大家好。感恩节快乐。
真是一个忙碌的日子，也是一个快乐的日子，因为明天要过节了。
Hi, my team, let me say hello to every one through my first Blog. I love you, every one. Joe, Beifeng, and Andrew,and Libo.

Learn Yu Wen members were at ACTFL this year. Plenty of teachers were excited to talk to us about the Journal. In fact, teachers at various grade levels were all enthusiastic after receiving hardcopies to evaluate. You, however, can download a free eBook version right now. But if you're a teacher and would like a print edition, feel free to email us.

If there's one thing I've learned after training many teachers and teaching many students is that there is a wealth of experience and ideas that reside within many people. So, it would be great to be able to share some illuminating stories and especially some effective teaching tips. Thanks! - Andrew

If you're a high school student, now is the time to get a scholarship to study abroad in a variety of countries.

The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) is a unique program that teaches languages most students do not have opportunities to learn in high school, but are rapidly becoming critical to know, especially when preparing for careers in many different fields. Sponsored by the Department of State, NSLI-Y is designed to increase American citizens' capacity to engage foreign governments and peoples through the critical languages of Arabic, Mandarin, Persian, Hindi, Korean, Russian and Turkish.
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As always, Learn Yu Wen is your guide beyond the classroom in Chinese language and cultural studies. Consider subscribing to our monthly eBook. You'll find plenty of helpful exercises and useful tips.

Practice your Chinese with the upcoming Christmas holiday season. An upcoming sneak preview of one of our many ebooks is being given to our audience. This sneak peak is one of many helpful ways Learn Yu Wen is helping you to learn Chinese language and culture. Our Chinese language blog is another great tool to bookmark.

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The recent "New England Chinese Language Teacher Network Conference" took place. There, we offered to help tailor our materials to better suit teachers' needs. To do this we gave everyone in attendance a survey to fill out. The answers submitted will greatly help us in meeting your needs. If you couldn't attend the conference but would still like to submit your opinions, please take this quick survey. In it we ask for questions about how you enjoy our Journal or what you'd like to see done differently.

Take the survey now!