Chinese (Mandarin)/Web Resources

Sites in English (beginners) Dictionaries / Translators CC-CEDICT - CC-BY-SA dictionary. Extensive, compiled by volunteers. Available under GNU licence. Chinese Tutor Dictionary - A Chinese dictionary searchable by Pinyin, Hanzi, or English. It is fast and easy to use. Google Translate - Surprise, surprise! Has dictionary, pinyin, and example sentences.May not work well when translating long sentences to Chinese. Multilingual Chinese Dictionary - A no-frills Chinese dictionary with 9 languages nciku - Chinese-English dictionary with handwriting recognition, lots of examples, a text-to-speech system, and other learning materials. Rikai.com - A web-mediator that adds mouseover pinyin readings and English meanings to Chinese webpages. WrittenChinese.Com Free Chinese-English dictionary. Search results are ranked by frequency of occurrence in everyday Chinese text. Zhongwen.com - A Chinese character dictionary and cultural reference. Characters are represented by images, meaning they are still viewable without Chinese fonts. Detailed character trees. Lessons Mandarin Play - Learn Mandarin Chinese with simple and fun mini-games. The games combine English, Pinyin, Hanzi and audio to help you learn beginner and intermediate Mandarin Chinese in an interactive way. ChinesePod - Free Chinese podcasts for beginners on various topics. Learn chinese online - 40 lessons courses for beginners. Learn to Speak Chinese Online - Learn Mandarin Chinese online for free. Mandarin 123 - Site focused on Chinese Mandarin vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, reading and writing. HowToSpeakOnline.com - Free grammar, vocabulary and conversation lessons for beginners. Melnyks Chinese - Theme-based Chinese Podcasts. ZapChinese - Mandarin Chinese audio vocabulary. A large list of useful words in Chinese and an audio file showing how to pronounce them. Pinyin reading matters Pinyin-English News Summary for learners of Chinese language The Problems of Hanzi Application in IT Other Wikibook's Very Own HSK Guide! The Chairman's Bao - The first online simplified Chinese newspaper, written to HSK levels 3-6+. Chinese Tutor Flashcards - Online flashcards that focus on words the learner is having difficulty with. The Chinese Outpost - Site focused on Chinese language learning and culture, centered around an "Introduction to Mandarin Chinese" with readable and entertaining units on pronunciation, characters and grammar. LearnchineseOK.com - Web's biggest directory of free online resources for learning Mandarin Chinese language Mnemosyne - Free, reliable flashcard program. Has special "vocabulary" cards. Chinese with Mike - Blogger focused on the Chinese language. On-line Chinese Tools - Site with many helpful links for learners, including online dictionaries, character converters and free flashcard programs for learning characters. Skype.com - Skype is a freely downloadable program that allows free, VoIP calling. You can find native Chinese speakers looking for language partners via skype at the Mixxer University of Melbourne Chinese Studies Virtual Library - Large collection of Chinese-related links, organized by topic. Sites in Chinese (advanced) General Project Gutenberg's Chinese Books Wikipedia in Chinese Yahoo!奇摩字典 - Chinese-English dictionary from Yahoo! for English learners in Taiwan. Search engines Baidu - Simplified Chinese, The most widely used search engine in mainland China Google Google Hong Kong - Both Simplified and Traditional Chinese Google Taiwan - Traditional Chinese Or you can just change your Google Language settings. Yahoo! Yahoo! China - Simplified Chinese Yahoo! Hong Kong - Traditional Chinese Yahoo! Taiwan - Traditional Chinese Other major websites Xinhua - A major official Chinese news agency Sina - Web portal Sohu - Web portal Tencent - Web portal NetEase - Web portal WikiMedia Sites Wikibooks Wikipedia Wiktionary See more at Wikipedia.