Offers trial downloads of AsianSuite 2000, a software for Traditional Chinese, Simple Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts. This website explains Chinese characters to help students understand, appreciate and remember Chinese characters. Students can click to see the definition, etymology, and relation to other characters. Students can also hear it, see it drawn, and see its entry in other dictionaries.
Students can hear common phrases in the language they select.
Users will need to have Chinese and Japanese Fonts downloaded in order to view in these languages. The free RealMedia player is required to hear VOA's 24 hour a day live news audio stream and other programs. This site lets us hear radio broadcasts in English or Chinese. Also offers video of television broadcasts. Most of the sites listed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology require Chinese software.