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Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.

17 May 2007

Mongolian & Pashto Learning Materials Online

http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar/intermediate.php

5star
17 May 2007

Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, US

Supplied note:
"We would like to draw your attention to the launch of important new language resources for students of Pashto and Mongolian languages. The Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) has developed online, web-based reading and listening materials for these languages, and beginning today, we will be placing these on our website alongside the Uyghur and Tajik materials. The modules can be accessed on our main website: The modules can be accessed on our main website: [see the URL below] Please note that we ask all users to register, so as to better track the usage and efficacy of the modules. Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues and all those interested in Central Asian languages. - Paul M. Foster, Jr. Director."

Self-description:
"The goal of the Intermediate Reading/Listening Exercises is to produce listening and reading exercises for students of Central Asian languages at the intermediate level to help build their listening and reading skills, broaden their vocabulary, enrich their appreciation of grammar, and deepen their understanding of the cultures of the region. Each module features original or adapted written and spoken texts that present language structures in authentic cultural contexts. The texts are accompanied by a series of multimedia exercises developed by our native-speaker developers. Please feel free to explore the modules at your leisure."

URL http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar/intermediate.php

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center (iaau--at--indiana.edu),
forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu

* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
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* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
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Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

posted by tmciolek at Thursday, May 17, 2007