Chinese (Mandarin)/Web Resources

Sites in English (beginners)

 * Dictionaries / Translators
 * CC-CEDICT - CC-BY-SA dictionary. Extensive, compiled by volunteers. Available under GNU licence.
 * Chinese Tutor Dictionary - A Chinese dictionary searchable by Pinyin, Hanzi, or English. It is fast and easy to use.
 * Google Translate - Surprise, surprise! Has dictionary, pinyin, and example sentences.May not work well when translating long sentences to Chinese.
 * Multilingual Chinese Dictionary - A no-frills Chinese dictionary with 9 languages
 * nciku - Chinese-English dictionary with handwriting recognition, lots of examples, a text-to-speech system, and other learning materials.
 * Rikai.com - A web-mediator that adds mouseover pinyin readings and English meanings to Chinese webpages.
 * WrittenChinese.Com Free Chinese-English dictionary. Search results are ranked by frequency of occurrence in everyday Chinese text.
 * Zhongwen.com - A Chinese character dictionary and cultural reference. Characters are represented by images, meaning they are still viewable without Chinese fonts. Detailed character trees.
 * Lessons
 * Mandarin Play - Learn Mandarin Chinese with simple and fun mini-games. The games combine English, Pinyin, Hanzi and audio to help you learn beginner and intermediate Mandarin Chinese in an interactive way.
 * ChinesePod - Free Chinese podcasts for beginners on various topics.
 * Learn chinese online - 40 lessons courses for beginners.
 * Learn to Speak Chinese Online - Learn Mandarin Chinese online for free.
 * Mandarin 123 - Site focused on Chinese Mandarin vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, reading and writing.
 * HowToSpeakOnline.com - Free grammar, vocabulary and conversation lessons for beginners.
 * Melnyks Chinese - Theme-based Chinese Podcasts.
 * ZapChinese - Mandarin Chinese audio vocabulary. A large list of useful words in Chinese and an audio file showing how to pronounce them.
 * Pinyin reading matters
 * Pinyin-English News Summary for learners of Chinese language
 * The Problems of Hanzi Application in IT
 * Other
 * Wikibook's Very Own HSK Guide!
 * The Chairman's Bao - The first online simplified Chinese newspaper, written to HSK levels 3-6+.
 * Chinese Tutor Flashcards - Online flashcards that focus on words the learner is having difficulty with.
 * The Chinese Outpost - Site focused on Chinese language learning and culture, centered around an "Introduction to Mandarin Chinese" with readable and entertaining units on pronunciation, characters and grammar.
 * LearnchineseOK.com - Web's biggest directory of free online resources for learning Mandarin Chinese language
 * Mnemosyne - Free, reliable flashcard program. Has special "vocabulary" cards.
 * Chinese with Mike - Blogger focused on the Chinese language.
 * On-line Chinese Tools - Site with many helpful links for learners, including online dictionaries, character converters and free flashcard programs for learning characters.
 * Skype.com - Skype is a freely downloadable program that allows free, VoIP calling. You can find native Chinese speakers looking for language partners via skype at the Mixxer
 * University of Melbourne Chinese Studies Virtual Library - Large collection of Chinese-related links, organized by topic.

Sites in Chinese (advanced)

 * General
 * Project Gutenberg's Chinese Books
 * Wikipedia in Chinese
 * Yahoo!奇摩字典 - Chinese-English dictionary from Yahoo! for English learners in Taiwan.
 * Search engines
 * Baidu - Simplified Chinese, The most widely used search engine in mainland China
 * Google
 * Google Hong Kong - Both Simplified and Traditional Chinese
 * Google Taiwan - Traditional Chinese
 * Or you can just change your Google Language settings.
 * Yahoo!
 * Yahoo! China - Simplified Chinese
 * Yahoo! Hong Kong - Traditional Chinese
 * Yahoo! Taiwan - Traditional Chinese
 * Other major websites
 * Xinhua - A major official Chinese news agency
 * Sina - Web portal
 * Sohu - Web portal
 * Tencent - Web portal
 * NetEase - Web portal

WikiMedia Sites

 * Wikibooks
 * Wikipedia
 * Wiktionary

See more at Wikipedia.