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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.

Chinesepod
Teaches spoken Mandarin though the medium of podcasting for syncing content to media player.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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