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Great innovative Chinese dictionary. Can paste Pinyin,Chinese characters, or English. In addition you can enter Pinyin with numbers, for example hao3 or yi1. Also, it allows you to draw Chinese characters to search for them that way.
A fabulous website! It has a multitude of things to see including entire novels in Chinese and English, flashcards, and more. It has an excellent dictionary, and is a great site for researching Chinese etymology. It allows you to search by both traditional and simplified characters.
This site has a huge dictionary and large section about the history of China. Also, you can read various books like Sun Tze's the art of war with English and Mandarin parallel to each other. In the site's dictionary, if you search a character that is itself composed of 2 smaller characters, it will often break up the larger character into its smaller components. For example, with this dictionary, if you search the character which means to move, 動 dong4, it is broken down into its component characters, 重 which means heavy, and 力 which means strength.
Great site for beginners to start learning Chinese with a dictionary, flashcards, podcasts, news, lessons, and more.
This is a very good site for learning Chinese 1-on-1 with professional tutors. According to the site, "Touchchinese makes the easy way to learn Mandarin Chinese with only a headset and webcam via Skype(or MSN, Yahoo Messenger). You will get your own private Chinese teacher who'll tailor live 1-on-1 Chinese lessons to your specific study requirements." The site includes custom-made courses including: Business Chinese Course, Kids Chinese Course, Travel Chinese Course, and Survival Chinese Course. They give you a free trial to see if the site will work out for you.
This site teaches you how to write Chinese characters step by step with animation (animation is quite fast though).
A very good introductory Mandarin site. This is written by a woman from Taiwan.
This site has lots of great materials for people learning Mandarin Chinese. It has great sections on speaking, reading, and writing Chinese. The site is named chinese-tools because it has many great tools for Chinese language learning.
This site is another huge portal to Chinese things including learning resources, podcasts, and online penpal links.
http://www.certifiedchinesetranslation.com/learn/online.html
This is Dr. Tianwei Xie's site for learning Chinese. It is a fantastic portal, and has everything you would need to learn Chinese including characters, grammar, and more
eChineseOnline provides high quality Chinese instructional video courses. The video courses are arranged based on different skill levels and topics, and the instructions are provided by professional Chinese teachers.
This site has lots of interesting Chinese from beginner to advanced. This site includes Pinyin and audio for all of the lessons.
teaches about Chinese chess as well
This site has good sections on grammar, vocabulary, and Chinese writing.
This is great portal, and has many Chinese language educational materials.
Great intro site and GREAT videos for calligraphy. Note: difficult to copy characters on the site.
This is another portal. It has a good dictionary, good learning videos, and Chinese software.
This site will do translations of names into Chinese characters. Also, they have the Chinese symbols for various English nouns like love, power .. etc.
One of the most popular sites in China. This site dominates chat, and many other things in China. Huge numbers of Chinese have QQ accounts. It is an all in one site with news, applications, games, you name it it has it. It is quite similar to yahoo.com in how it is designed.
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