Web Directory

» Adsotrans
   A bilingual Chinese-English annotation and translation system. Includes a simple and an advanced interface.
   http://www.adsotrans.com

» Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
   22 lessons in simplified characters at elementary-intermediate level. Includes multimedia materials.
   http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/index.html

» Chinese Character Finder
   This site is intended to aid in the study of common Chinese characters by providing a visual search tool, rather than the "radicals" or phonetic approach used by most dictionaries.
   http://homepage.mac.com/ccfinder/

» Chinese Counting
   Interactive counting and multiplication in Chinese [flash]
   http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/games/numbers/chinese/

» Chinese Dialects
   Information on the distribution of Chinese languages and dialects.
   http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/

» Chinese Etymology
   Provides the origin and translation of Chinese characters. Includes pictures with the ancient ways of writing the character.
   http://www.internationalscientific.org/

» Chinese Family Relationship Titles
   A chart with the formal version of Chinese family titles used for writings and an informal version used in everyday speech.
   http://www.kwanfamily.info/familytitles/familytitle.html

» Chinese Forums
   A community of people interested in learning about Chinese and Chinese culture. Forum topics include history, non-Mandarin Chinese, grammar and vocabulary.
   http://www.chinese-forums.com/

» Chinese Grammar Index
   Index of Chinese grammar rules. Includes lessons.
   http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/grammarlist.htm

» Chinese Tools
   Tools to help learn and process Chinese online, including dictionaries, flashcards, and translators.
   http://www.mandarintools.com/

» Chinese dictionary
   Uses graphics files to display the characters.
   http://zhongwen.com/

» ChinesePod
   Podcasts to learn Mandarin. Includes a list of popular words, and guides to grammar and pronunciation.
   http://www.chinesepod.com

» Cojak Hanzi Dictionary
   Provides Unihan Hanzi radical chart and a Kangxi version.
   http://cojak.org

» Conversational Chinese Online
   Conversational Chinese lessons, including grammatical information and downloadable sound files.
   http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm

» Get a Chinese Name
   Get your own Chinese name based on your English name. Provides a pronunciation guide and meaning of the name and your Chinese astrological sign.
   http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html

» How to Order Chinese Food
   Guide to ordering Chinese food in Chinese. Includes ordering guides for chicken, pork, beef and vegetarian dishes.
   http://www.howtoorderchinesefood.com/

» Learn Chinese Collection
   Annoted links to handpicked websites about learning Chinese, including lessons, dictionaries, and dialects.
   http://learn-chinese.mychinastart.com/

» Mandarin Essential Grammar
   Chinese grammar explained, including examples.
   http://comet.cls.yale.edu/mandarin/content/grammar.htm

» Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks
   Annotated links to over six hundred China- and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites.
   http://chinalinks.osu.edu/

» Melnyks
   Podcast to learn Mandarin. Weekly lessons.
   http://www.melnyks.com/

» NewsinChinese
   It provides English annotated Chinese news articles.
   http://www.newsinchinese.com

» Odds on the Odes
   Paper on how old Chinese became an (almost) natural language.
   http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gpc/behr/HTML/Excellence.htm

» One a Day
   Daily a new Chinese idiom. Includes characters, pinyin and English translation.
   http://www.oneaday.org

» Perapera Popup Translator
   Chinese Popup Translator for Firefox. Works with both Simplified and Traditional characters.
   http://perapera.wordpress.com/

» Pin1yin1.com
   Pinyin and Zhuyin Bopomofo converter for Mandarin Chinese
   http://www.pin1yin1.com/

» Pinyin Practice
   Provides pronunciation exercises for Chinese pinyin.
   http://www.pinyinpractice.com/

» Pinyin.info
   A guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in Romanization. Includes Romanization tools.
   http://www.pinyin.info

» Practical Self-Test
   Offers a Chinese self-test.
   http://www.csulb.edu/%7Etxie/PCRopen/selftest.htm

» Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus
   Fonts, bibliography, etymology and thesaurus lookup for Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages.
   http://stedt.berkeley.edu/

» The Chinese Outpost
   Resources on pronunciation, grammar and characters with general information aimed at demystifying Chinese language.
   http://chinese-outpost.com/