Lukol Directory: Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Sino-Tibetan: Chinese

On-line Chinese Tools
Erik Peterson provides Web tools to assist people studying and using the Chinese language, including CEDICT and Unihan dictionaries with lookup by English, Pinyin, Cantonese, character, or radical-stroke. Includes Chinese text annotator, character flashcards, and online converters for romanizations, encodings, Chinese/Western calendars, numbers, etc. (Big5, GB, UTF-8, and GIF image converter)
http://www.mandarintools.com/

EzMandarin
Online community for Mandarin students and teachers. Includes a forum and reviews of Chinese books and lessons.
http://www.ezmandarin.com/

ChinesePod
Podcasts to learn Mandarin. Includes a list of popular words.
http://www.chinesepod.com

Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus
Fonts, bibliography, etymology and thesaurus lookup for Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages.
http://stedt.berkeley.edu/

Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
22 lessons in simplified characters at elementary-intermediate level. Includes multimedia materials.
http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/index.ht...

Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks
A site with annotated links to over six hundred China- and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites (and a few ftp and gopher sites).
http://chinalinks.osu.edu/

Pinyin.info
A guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in romanization. Includes romanization tools.
http://www.pinyin.info

Chinese dictionary
Uses graphics files to display the characters.
http://www.zhongwen.com/

ABC- Chinese
Interactive Chinese language educational program that provides level through multi-media. Texts and sources for learning Chinese listed.
http://www.abc-chinese.com/index.html

Chinese Dialects
Information on the distribution of Chinese languages and dialects.
http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/

Inverted Sentences, Pragmatics, and the Emergent Grammar
Word order as an example of the pragmatic orientation of conversational Chinese.
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~whu/Chi...

Chinese Forums
A community of people interested in learning about Chinese and Chinese culture. Forum topics include history, non-Mandarin Chinese, grammar and vocabulary.
http://www.chinese-forums.com/

Conversational Chinese Online
Conversational Chinese lessons, including grammatical information and downloadable sound files.
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.ht...

Chinese Character Finder
This site is intended to aid in the study of common Chinese characters by providing a visual search tool, rather than the "radicals" or phonetic approach used by most dictionaries.
http://homepage.mac.com/ccfinder/

Adsotrans
A bilingual Chinese-English annotation and translation system. Includes a simple and an advanced interface.
http://www.adsotrans.com

Melnyks
Podcast to learn Mandarin. Weekly lessons.
http://www.melnyks.com/

One a Day
Daily a new Chinese idiom. Includes characters, pinyin and English translation.
http://www.oneaday.org

Chinese Family Relationship Titles
A chart with the formal version of Chinese family titles used for writings and an informal version used in everyday speech.
http://www.kwanfamily.info/familytitles/fa...

Odds on the Odes
Paper on how old Chinese became an (almost) natural language.
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gpc/behr/HTM...

Chengyu
Collection of Chinese idioms.
http://chengyu.info/

ChineseOn
Provides multi-media courses, standard courses and online guidance.
http://www.chineseon.net/

NewsinChinese
It provides English annotated Chinese news articles.
http://www.newsinchinese.com

Lightverse
Convert Chinese text to pinyin.
http://www.lightverse.com/ChinesePinyin/Tr...

The Chinese Outpost
Resources on pronunciation, grammar and characters with general information aimed at demystifying Chinese language.
http://chinese-outpost.com/

Chinese Reading World
Reading material for various levels of Chinese learners.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~chnsrdng/index.html

Chinese Etymology
Provides the origin and translation of Chinese characters. Includes pictures with the ancient ways of writing the character.
http://www.internationalscientific.org/

Get a Chinese Name
Get your own Chinese name based on your English name. Provides a pronunciation guide and meaning of the name and your Chinese astrological sign.
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.h...

Sub Topics:
Computer Software
Hakka
Dictionaries
Cantonese
Taiwanese
Calligraphy
Mandarin
Educational Software
Classical Chinese


Related Topics:
World: Chinese Simplified
World: Chinese Traditional



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2006