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Learn Chinese

• Chinese Learning Objects, free Chinese lessons from the National Foreign Language Center (Mandarin - Traditional & Simplified)
• WordBuddy - learn any language a community learning tool (Mandarin & Cantonese - Traditional & Simplified)
• CantonesePod - Learn Cantonese With MP3 and Podcasts
• Speak Good Chinese - Practice speaking Mandarin Chinese tones
• Chinese Lessons - Learn Cantonese, Mandarin, and Chinese characters online for free (Cantonese - Traditional / Mandarin - Simplified)
• Chinese-Course.com - Learn Traditional and Simplified Characters Online, with sound feature using Taiwanese speakers
• Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online (Mandarin - Traditional)
• MandarinTools.com - various Chinese tools
• Learn Basic Cantonese - with pronunciation (Cantonese - Traditional)
• Teachionary: Cantonese Word Sets - guessing game with pronunciation (Cantonese - Traditional)
• Cantonese Chinese Help Sheets (Cantonese - Traditional)
• Learn Cantonese (Cantonese - Traditional, uses a different romanisation, warning: profane language)
• Real Chinese - An introduction to Mandarin Chinese by BBC (Mandarin - Simplified)
• Video Clips of Survival Chinese (Mandarin - Simplified)
• Major Sentence Patterns (Mandarin - Traditional)
• Rutgers University on-line beginning Chinese reading and listening materials (Mandarin - Simplified & Traditional)
• University of Virginia - The Chinese Reading World - 中文閱讀天地 (Mandarin - Traditional)
• University of Iowa - Chinese Reading World (Mandarin - Simplified)
• Blabi - A website to help you practice Chinese using quizzes, flashcards, etc. It also allows you to keep track of your progress automatically (Mandarin - Simplified)
• China the Beautiful - A website with loads of information about China, Chinese, Calligraphy, Poetry, etc.
• ZapChinese - Learn Chinese online for free, with audio / video material, common phrases, vocabulary and grammar
• Learn To Read And Write Chinese Characters - Animated Tutorials - Dikk Kelly
• Chinese blast - A collaborative learning engine for Chinese
• ChinesePod - Learn Chinese with Free Podcasts
• Chinoesfera - Spanish Chinese Learning site
• Skritter - Practice by writing! Get instant feedback, including stroke order

Discussion:

• Chinese-forums.com - discussion of a wide range of topics relating to Chinese language and culture

Online Chinese book stores:

• Purple Culture - Online shop for Chinese learning materials and Chinese culture/history books

Write Chinese:

• Writing Chinese Characters and finding penstroke count

Chinese Etymology

• Chinese Etymology - Dictionary containing Seal, Bronze and Oracle characters, find the origins of modern Chinese

Pinyin:

• pīnyīn.info - A guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in romanization
• Pinyin Practice - Practice Mandarin pinyin

Cantonese:

• Cantonese (linguistics) - Wikipedia
• What is the HKSCS (links to Hong Kong specific fonts and input methods)
• "Learn Cantonese!" by Adam Sheik (uses Jyutping romanization)
• Dragonwise project - Cantonese for children (Chinese only)

Link portals:

• MyChinaStart - links to about anything related China

Chinese culture / literature / poetry:

• ZhongWen.com - Chinese Characters and Culture
• Chinaknowledge - A universal guide for China studies
• University of Virginia Library - Chinese text initiative
• Technical Notes on the Chinese Language Dialects

Research projects:

• Chinese cards - speech recognition driven image flashcards (Spoken Language Systems group - MIT CSAIL)

Chinese computing:

• 网上中文输入法 - Web based Chinese input method (Chinese only)
• Chinese Mac - Using Chinese on Apple Macintosh computers

Find a teacher:

• Language Exchange Network 语言互助网 - Find a Chinese or English teacher in your neighborhood

Technical:

• HanFind - A windows tool to browse through the unihan.txt file
• HTML Validator extension - A firefox / mozilla extension which adds 'live' HTML validation, ideal for webdesigners

Software:

• Chinese Flashcards for iPod Linux

Travel:

• Ctrip.com - A travel agency website with lots of information about attractions/hotels/restaurants in different regions in China
• Chinatravel.net - an English-language travel website focusing on creating a community of travelers in China and a thorough, up-to-date travel guide
• Beijing Made Easy: travel, hotels, flights, tours
• China Travel Guide

Chinese / China related blogs:

• Laowai Chinese - Tips for learning to speak Chinese
• Learning Chinese & Living in China
• Mandarin Segments - learning Mandarin, bit by juicy bit

Dictionaries / translation:

• HanDeDict - Chinese - German dictionary
• Yahoo Babel Fish - multilingual text translator
• Google Translate - multilingual text translator
• CCDICT - Chinese Character Dictionary
• Chinese Character Database: With Word-formations Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect
• Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage
• Read and Study Japanese and Chinese with pop-up hints
• Xiaoma Cidian - Chinese-English dictionary
• Primezero Chinese Tools - dictionary in "think different" style
• HanziDict - Chinese-English dictionary with handwritten Chinese character input
• Chinese-tools.com - Online tools to learn Chinese or build Chinese websites. Includes annotation tools, dictionaries (Chinese to both English and French), and converters for pinyin, unicode, traditional and simplified Chinese.
• Wenlin - an extensive electronic dictionary for both Macintosh and Windows (commercial product)
• PlecoDict - an extensive electronic dictionary for PocketPC and Palm PDAs (commercial product)
• Cantodict - a collaborative English/Cantonese/Mandarin dictionary
• SmartHanzi.Net - Chinese - English dictionary / annotator
• Xinhua Chinese character dictionary (Chinese only)
• 國語辭典 (Chinese only)
• Yahoo! 字典 (Chinese only)