Introductory Chinese

• Integrated Chinese, multimedia exercises 中文听说读写 /中文聽說讀寫 Zhōngwén Tīngshuō Dúxiě: 

http://www.language.berkeley.edu/ic

Table of contents and samples, click here

• Conversational Mandarin Online by Tianwei Xie: 

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm

• MIT OpenCourseWare:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-101Spring-2006/CourseHome/index.htm

• Glossika:

http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/mandarin/lesson001.php

• Harvard University:

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~pinyin/

• Chinese language online from China 汉语网:

http://www.hanyu.com.cn/

2. Character stroke order 汉字笔画 / 漢字筆劃 Hànzì bǐhuà:

eStroke software program

3. Online dictionaries 字典 zidian:

• English to Chinese:

http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/ecdict.php

English to simplified/traditional

http://www.chinese-course.com/

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

• Chinese Pinyin to Character & English:
  • Click here
  • Definition, etymology
• Kangxi Dictionary: http://www.kangxizidian.com/index2.php

4. Sounds & Spellings:

• Lilly Chen's website:

- About the Pinyin spelling system, click on the blue icon here

- Mandarin pronunciation

- Chinese tones

• Elsewhere: http://www.pinyin.info/readings/yin_binyong/computer_conversion.html
• Put pinyin (including tone marks) on top of Chinese text: Automatic pinyin annotator

5. Suggestion for composition and online reading: use Wenlin at LRC.Wenlin at LRC:

• lang.rice.edu/hlin/wenlin.htm

6. Online radio and news in Mandarin

http://www.cri.com.cn
http://fm974.tom.com
http://www.radioshanghai.com
http://www.cbs.org.tw
http://www.bcc.com.tw
http://www.vot.com.tw http://www.bbc.co.uk/mandarin/
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/

Mandarin website with podcast http://www.chinesepod.com

7. About the Chinese Language

http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html
http://www.chinalanguage.com/

8. Others

• Chinese songs online
• Character conversion
• Pinyin tone mark conversion
• Conversion of weight, temperature, measurement, area, etc.