These sites contain useful resources for learning Chinese online. We will be adding more Chinese resources to this site soon too - so bookmark us and come back soon! Many thanks to Robert Brookes for help with compiling this list.

Learn Chinese Online

China Daily

Sina.com

The following site is especially good - it includes an online English-Chinese-English dictionary which can recognise characters when you write them with your mouse, so you don't need to know the pinyin of a character to look it up.

http://www.nciku.com/

The BBC's Chinese course - beginners' Mandarin:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/

University of Maine:

http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/welcome.html

CRI:

crienglish.com

Additional Chinese learning resources:

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/9931

http://chinesepod.com/

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/chinese-dictionary.php

http://www.mandarintools.com/

http://hskflashcards.com/

http://zhongwen.com/

http://www.popupchinese.com/tools/adso

http://www.longdage.com/ChinesePinyin/LoginRequired.asp

http://www.pleco.com/plecodict.html

http://china.panlogicsoftware.com/ebooks.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukchina/simp/index.shtml

http://www.sacu.org/index.html

http://www.cypressbooks.com/search.php

There are many items on YouTube eg:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=%E7%BA%A2%E6%A5%BC%E6%A2%A6&aq=f

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPvGFC05VKg&NR=1