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  • Quick Mandarin - Learning Chinese is fun and challenging. The objective of Quick Mandarin is to help you to Learn Chinese the most efficient way. Quick Mandarin offers Learn Chinese textbooks and programs at beginner Chinese level, Intermediate and advanced Chinese level. Learn Chinese is the efficient way!

Online Lessons

  • Wikipedia - Great background information on Chinese Language. A good place to start.
  • Chinese Forums - Great forums for learning chinese.
  • China Links - Extensive set of links for everything having to do with learning Chinese.
  • Zhongwen.com - Helpful site with many links to resources for studying Chinese.
  • On-line Chinese Tools - Another good site for lots of online tools, from flashcards, to an online dictionary.
  • MIT Open Course Ware - This is an extensive set of resoures for learning foreign languages, for free.
  • Times Online - Another great set of introductory learning Chinese courses.
  • BBC - Good Source for language learning, practice and news and media about Spain. Also can take a test to gauge your language level.
  • China-8 - Learn Chinese online with free Mandarin lessons, dictionary, flashcards, China wiki and more at China-8.com. check it out
  • Learn both Simplified and Traditional Chinese Characters -
  • Chinese Learn Online - A dialogue-based introduction to Mandarin Chinese. Load them on your iPod and get up the Chinese curve.
  • Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk - Weekly lessons in Mandarin that get very strong reviews from iTunes users.
  • Chinese Course - Free Mandarin Course with Flashcards/Sentence Manager and Chinese Character Explanations/Annotations
  • ReadChinese! - Read Chinese - online e-learning reading lessons aimed at beginning and intermediate students of the language.
  • 粤语学习网-学粤语mp3-视频教程-歌曲-广东话-下载 - 可以免费在线学习粤语、客家话、闽南语、上海话、潮汕话的网站。

Podcasts / Online Videos

  • Chinese as a Second Language - CSLPod is run by a team in Beijing, China, which is designed to help people improve their Chinese skills.
  • Learning Mandarin Pod - Learning Mandarin resources for you to use when you feel like something new and random.
  • iMandarinPod.com - A more advanced podcast, this series of lessons teaches Chinese by talking about Chinese culture or what is happening today in China.
  • LearnChinesePod.com - A Mandarin language podcast taught by Yao in New York City.
  • Mandarin Chinese - 10 Lessons by the US Peace Corps. Make sure you visit the site and download the pdf that accompanies the lessons.
  • Chinese Learn Online - Progressive Mandarin Course - A dialogue-based introduction to Mandarin Chinese. Load them on your iPod and get up the Chinese curve.
  • Cantonese PodCast - Learn in a fun way - This is a very fledgling Cantonese language series. It has one lesson so far. So we’ll have to see if this is for real. In the meantime, please let us know if you find a richer collection of Cantonese lessons.
  • ActiveChinese - The ActiveChinese Channel on YouTube provides subscribers with informative cartoon lesson videos for Mandarin Chinese learners.
  • learn mandarin with Mandarintube.com-Your Chinese Learning Channel! - It proudly presents practical Chinese courses in various forms. Learn how to have daily conversation as Chinese local in Video Courses, latest news in Daily, interesting Chinese slangs in Word Up, signs with Chinese characters in Sign Speak, and classified groups of Chinese vocabulary in PhraseBuilder.
  • Serge Melnyks - Podcast - This also a good podcast for learning Chinese from Serge Melnyks.
  • Antiwave - This is for advanced Chinese.

Software / CDs / DVDs

Dictionaries

  • Mandarin Tools - Chinese to English Dictionary - Online Chinese to English dictionary.
  • Babelfish - website for translating words from English to Chinese and vice versa.
  • Berberber-Translation and Forum - Free translation and language forum.
  • Chinese-English Picture Dictionary - The Chinese Picture Dictionary is a multimedia courseware that aims to expand the vocabulary of beginning-level Chinese language students. The Chinese Picture Dictionary presents several hundred pictures based on familiar settings of daily life. For example, food, clothing, school, dining hall, classroom, stationery, dorm, furniture, building, library, street, transportation, sports, vegetables, and animals. The pictures are divided into categories with approximately 20 pictures each.
  • Chinese-English Annotation - Chinese-English annotation and automatic translation tool
  • Xuezhongwen.net 学中文 - Xuezhongwen.net 学中文 (By MDBG) MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary and character learning practice. Online Chinese input is also available.
  • Pleco - One of the best PDA-based dictionaries for Chinese. It will recognize characters that you write with the stylus.

Books

Beginner Resources

Culture / News / Fun / Other

  • Pinyin.info - A warning for people considering starting to study Chinese...
  • Sinosplice - An apolitical China-centered weblog of observations on life and language.
  • All Roads Lead to China - All Roads Lead to China covers major business and economic issues in China, and is written by a respected consultant and NGO organizer.
  • Forum for Chinese Study -
  • XinHuaNet - If you are an intermediate to advanced learner of Mandarin Chinese you can really benefit from reading the news.http://www.xinhuanet.com/
  • Voice of Chinese - The Best Platform for the Promotion of Chinese Language and Culture Overseas! - Log on to Voice of Chinese, you may know practical information about living in China, learn Chinese online, purchase cultural goods and experience Chinese culture here! The professional services at Voice of Chinese can easily meet all your interests and needs.
  • ChineseFolkCulture - Help you experience various Chinese folk customs,festivals, folk performances,folk art and folk traveling etc. Feast your eyes with the unique charm of Chinese folk culture.
  • Fireflychinese - Chinese used in the US Sci-Fi Series "Firefly"
  • Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) - Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) official homepage for the standard test that is used to measure Chinese proficiency.
  • Askasia.org - A list of useful links for Chinese learning resurces from the Asia Society.
  • Shanghaiist - Shanghaiist is a website about Shanghai and everything that happens in it. That means news and events, restaurants and bars, happenings and goings-on.
  • Zonaeuropa - A blog about news in China, based in Hong Kong.
  • Globalvoicesonline.org - A blog site that often has translated blogs from China.
  • China Media Project - -
  • China Digital Times - -
  • China Daily - An English newspaper in China.
  • Chinese sex words, obscene language, curses and slang - Chinese sex words, obscene language, curses and slang. (Warning: This contains many obscene words, and is not appropriate for minors.)

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