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Learning Chinese online offers the level of interactivity that is second only to the real classroom teaching. There are various courses catering to all levesl from basic to advanced.

Beijing Language and Culture University Online
Offering degree and non-degree Chinese language programs. It provides interactive courses through Internet delivery. Students can obtain asynchronous and live help and support from their teachers.

Study Mandarin Chinese using VOA
Sound clips from recent VOA newscasts with the corresponding Chinese characters, pinyin pronunciations, and vocabulary lists with word definitions. Updated weekly. For intermediate-level students.

HANYU Learn Mandarin Online
Online course (1st lesson free)

Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online
Excellent set of lessons on colloquial Mandarin Chinese, by Prof. Tianwei Xie of the University of California, Davis. Sound recordings.Highly recommended. Chinese Big5 or PDF files.

Lessons for Pre-Schoolers
From the Chinese daily Renmin Ribao. In Chinese.

Speaking Chinese Online
Free Pinyin and Character lessons, subsequent lessons are not free. Requires registration.

Learn Chinese!
13 well organised lessons for beginners in English or French, with gifs of characters and pronunciation audio files.

Chinese Multimedia Tutorial
3 online lessons (Greetings, Expressing Thanks,Some Basic Terms Related to Food) with pinyin/Simplified characters gifs and pronunciation audio files

Interactive Chinese Characters
Click on an English word to see the corresponding Chinese characters. And, when you click on the Chinese characters, you see the pinyin pronunciation. All on the same screen.

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