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Learning Chinese Online
Guide picks
Tools for learning Chinese online including flash cards, animated Chinese, character pronunciations and more.

Chinese Idioms
Chinese idioms explained in English with the corresponding Chinese characters in GIF format.

Languageguide.org
Geared toward giving students of Mandarin a significant vocabulary boost -- an easy tool to learn Chinese.

A Is For Love
There is a set of flash cards for learning Chinese.

Animated Chinese
An animated tool to write Chinese characters, from Ocrat site.

Bell Labs Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis
An interactive demo of our Mandarin text-to-speech system.

ChineseOn.net
Provides online Chinese language courses.

Chinese Character Flashcards
A Java applet to assist in the learning of Chinese characters with about 1,000 most frequently used characters.

Chinese Character Pronunciations
A JavaScript application which shows Chinese pronunciations of any Chinese text in Big5 or GB.

Chinese Learner's Alternative Site
Some cool and useful words with pronunciation that are being used everyday in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Learning Cantonese
A very good place for learning Cantonese.

Learn Chinese
Some resources for learning Chinese.

Masahiro's Cantonese Page
Learn and listen a few words.

Tools for Learning Chinese
Chinese flashcards, creating Chinese GIFs, character dictionary, and more.

Zhongwen.com
Online tools to learn Chinese, including online readings, dictionary (English to Chinese), and more.

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