Chinese

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A Is For Love
http://www.chinapage.com/flash/love.html

A set of flash cards for learning Chinese. The face card shows a Chinese word. Clicking on the word will flip the card over and give the pronunciation and meaning.

Chinese Character Dictionary
http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/ccdict/

Search methods include bushou index and residual stroke count, English keyword, hanyu pinyin, Cantonese jyutping romanisation, Hakka pinjim romanisation, Sino-Japanese, Sino-Korean, four corner input, Cangjie input or character's internal code. Links to discussion forum.

Chinese Character Dictionary (another one)
http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html

Simple dictionary searchable by English meaning, hanyu pinyin (with or without tones), Yale Cantonese reading, radical, or by pasting in a character from a browser or other computer program.

Chinese Characters Dictionary Web
http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm

Search multiple online Chinese character dictionaries at once. You can search by Big5 character code, GB character code, English meaning, or bushou (radical).

Chinese Pod
http://chinesepod.com/

Chinese Pod is a daily radio show presenting lessons via podcast on topics especially relevant to business professionals and those looking for a less formal approach to learning Mandarin. All podcasts are free to download.

Chinese Syllable Chart - Comparative Romanization
http://www.elgin.free-online.co.uk/chin_chart_nn.htm

Table of Chinese syllables showing how a given sound is written in Pinyin, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Wade-Giles, and Yale romanization schemes respectively. Also shows the International Phonetic Alphabet and Zh¨´y¨©n F¨²h¨¤o representations of each sound. Resortable via JavaScript.

Frequency and Stroke Counts of Chinese Characters
http://technology.chtsai.org/charfreq/

"This is a list of frequency of usage and number of strokes of the 13,060 Chinese characters defined in the BIG-5 coding scheme." With links to other Chinese language and Chinese computing websites.

GR Junction
http://home.iprimus.com.au/richwarm/gr/gr.htm

How to read and write Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a method of representing putonghua (Mandarin Chinese) in ASCII text while indicating tones by variations in spelling. This is probably the easiest method of representing Chinese by a Western keyboard.

The Hanzi Quiz Program
http://www.abstractfactory.org/hanziquiz/

Forrest Cahoon has written a freely available JavaScript program to help learn hanzi (Chinese characters).

Language Learning Library
http://www.languagelearninglibrary.org/

Very easy-to-use site with basic instruction in several foreign languages. Covers parts of speech, common phrases, etc. Provides pronunciation key, and basic cultural information.

Learning Chinese Online
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm

Portal to sites about all aspects of learning Chinese.

Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/

Web version of the original 1972 print version. The online version uses Hanyu Pinyin for romanization, with some Zuyin Fuhao support.

LOGOS Dictionary
http://www.logos.it/query.html

A searchable dictionary that translates words and phrases amongst English, French, Italian, Estonian and Cantonese.

On-Line Chinese Tools
http://www.mandarintools.com/

The dictionary feature on this site allows you to look up Chinese from pinyin or English. This site contains some additional great features such as Chinese flashcards, a Western-Chinese calendar converter, and a Chinese namer.

University of Virginia Chinese Text Initiative
http://etext.virginia.edu/chinese/

A site for classic Chinese literature. As of 2008, the site has over 300 Tang Poems and poetry from authors Gu Yao Yan, Shi Jing, Hong Lou Meng, and Yu Xuan Ji. Literature is available in both English and Chinese.

Zhongwen.com: Chinese Characters and Culture
http://zhongwen.com/

"This website counters the simplistic myth of character inferiority by translating traditional Chinese character etymologies into English to show how Chinese themselves have used and understood the symbols they created." All characters in GIF format. Uses frames. Also has lists of Chinese dynasties, Chinese names of famous Chinese-Americans, common Taiwanese pronunciations, and common Chinese surnames, among other things.