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A game to help you in your learning of Chinese characters.

This is a mini-guide to Chinese characters, read through the pages to learn more.

Essential phrases in Chinese, including basic phrases relevant to the Olympics, food and drink, getting around, shopping, and accommodation.

This game will give you better insight into the Chinese language and provide practice in learning the tones.

A mini-guide to Chinese tones, by following the link and clicking start you will be guided from one section to another.

Follow the link to take a look at the BBC guide, listen to the voices in real Chinese and play the tone and character games to hear how native speakers pronounce sounds.

Chineasy’s goal is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognising characters through simple illustrations. The magical power of the Chineasy method is that by learning one small set of building blocks, students can build many new words, characters, and phrases. Master a few sets of building blocks and your learning will accelerate to a whole new level.

Global Language Online Support System is a database of interactive language lessons from the Defense Language Institute. Lessons contain authentic audio and video texts, activities, glossaries, and links for further information on the topics.

Grasp Chinese is a website designed to assist anyone in learning more about Chinese language and culture. The course and resources are designed for beginners and all content is now free. The online material takes an immersive approach, enabling the learner to study Mandarin from native speakers and through real life situations.

This easy to follow series has one hundred episodes, each fifteen minutes in length. The series´ aim is to use dramatic skits to teach three hundred of the most commonly spoken Chinese phrases.

The Mandarin Daily is a Taiwanese newspaper promoting Mandarin education. Mandarin Daily News is dedicated to cultural and educational journalism, focusing on topics such as lifestyle, youth, family, children's news, and children's and young people's classrooms.

Interactive exercises for the learning and practice of Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. Provided by the Department of Asian Studies at The University of Texas Austin.

SBS Radio is a service provided by the Special Broadcasting Service to 'inform, educate and entertain Australians, especially those of non-English-speaking backgrounds'. SBS Radio originally began as two stations based in Melbourne and Sydney, set up to provide pre-recorded information about the then-new Medibank health care system in languages other than English. Follow this link to access SBS Radio in Mandarin.

Offered by an economist who analyzes game theory models of strategic communication, this dictionary takes data on the components for each character and runs it through a program to generate character trees. Explanations are translated from traditional Chinese sources for each character, added character and word definitions are included.