- Chinese dictionary - http://www.zhongwen.com/
Uses graphics files to display the characters.
- ChineseOn - http://www.chineseon.net/
Provides multi-media courses, standard courses and online guidance.
- Chinese Tutorials - http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/chinese.htm
Some free online Chinese lessons
- ABC- Chinese - http://www.abc-chinese.com/index.html
Interactive Chinese language educational program that provides level through multi-media. Texts and sources for learning Chinese listed.
- Chinese School Association in the US - http://csaus.org/
Information exchange among hundreds of Chinese schools in the United States, promote joint activities, events; share information related to education in Chinese language and culture.
- Get a Chinese Name - http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
Get your own Chinese name based on your English name. Provides a pronunciation guide and meaning of the name and your Chinese astrological sign.
- Chinese Tools - http://www.mandarintools.com/
Tools to help learn and process Chinese online, including dictionaries, flashcards, and translators.
- Chinese Character Finder - http://homepage.mac.com/ccfinder/
This site is intended to aid in the study of common Chinese characters by providing a visual search tool, rather than the "radicals" or phonetic approach used by most dictionaries.
- So you want to learn Chinese...? - http://www.lintech.org/chinese/
Includes FAQ, hints and tips for learning the language, book reviews and basic learning methods, plus information on viewing and writing Chinese for users of UNIX and Linux.
- Odds on the Odes - http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gpc/behr/HTML/Excellence.htm
Paper on how old Chinese became an (almost) natural language.
- The Chinese Outpost - http://chinese-outpost.com/
Resources on pronunciation, grammar and characters with general information aimed at demystifying Chinese language.
- Chinese Comics - http://www.cartoonwin.com/eng/
Online emporium of Chinese calligraphy, comics and paintings.
- Conversational Chinese Online - http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm
Conversational Chinese lessons, including grammatical information and downloadable sound files.
- Your Name in Chinese - http://www.merechina.com/yournameinchinese/
Tool for transforming Western names into Chinese characterss.
- Chinese Text Sampler - http://www.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/sampler.html
Intended for student reading practice, this graded collection of 50 short Chinese texts includes well-known stories, poems, songs, essays, and historical documents.
- Chinese Language and Culture Forum - http://www.chinese-forums.com/
A community of people interested in learning about Chinese and Chinese culture. Forum topics include history, non-Mandarin Chinese, grammar and vocabulary.
- Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks - http://chinalinks.osu.edu/
A site with annotated links to over six hundred China- and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites (and a few ftp and gopher sites).
- Adsotrans - http://www.adsotrans.com
A bilingual Chinese-English annotation and translation system. Includes a simple and an advanced interface.
- Chinese Etymology - http://www.internationalscientific.org/
Provides the origin and translation of Chinese characters. Includes pictures with the ancient ways of writing the character.
- NewsinChinese - http://www.newsinchinese.com
It provides English annotated Chinese news articles.
- Pinyin.info - http://www.pinyin.info
A guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in romanization. Includes romanization tools.
- Lightverse - http://www.lightverse.com/ChinesePinyin/Translate.asp
Convert Chinese text to pinyin.
- Chinese Reading World - http://www.uiowa.edu/~chnsrdng/index.html
Reading material for various levels of Chinese learners.
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