# Chinese (Mandarin)/Web Resources

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## 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

* Wikipedia
* Wiktionary
See more at Wikipedia.
| Lessons: | Pron. - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 | Search inside this book using Google |
| Subpages: | Examples - Exercises - Stroke Order | Search inside this book using Google |