You will find a lot of most common Mandarin Chinese vocabularies by categories with audio pronunciations on the Web. Each vocabulary has a picture and pronunciation to match with to help you distinguish and remember.
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For all those who are working on Chinese advanced level and want to learn how to recognize and write the character. Here are some very good transcriptions in simplified and traditional Chinese to help you master your Chinese writing skills. The first part teaches how to read and recognize Chinese characters from simple to difficult in short articles. The second part teaches how to write Chinese character stroke by stroke. It both has simplified and traditional version. Files are in Pdf. Download here: Chinese Character

Totally free English<->Chinese dictionary. The definitions are very good and there is an audio file for the pronunciation. You can search in Chinese or English, in pinyin or in character. Uniquely you can also search by drawing a character.

This ability to handwrite characters directly on the website is the best feature. This feature is a bit hard to use but it is fantastic and the system will offer you some choices based from your drawing. So even if you don’t know the Pinyin of a character you still can have a translation.

You can also search conversations by place and by topic. There are also good example and idioms. Build your vocabulary from “Theme of the day” or “Theme category”.

This is a really good Chinese-English online dictionary , take a look at: nciku.com

Byki is a powerful and personalized free language-learning system and it’s available in over 70 languages. Learn different languages in a faster and better way. Finding good resources and sharing the learning with other users in the online community. It runs under Windows XP, Mac, PocketPC and Palm. The “Express” version is free and covers beginners level. This is a full learning methods that focused on the most commonly used vocabulary and common expressions. The method is based on flash card and help you to build your own vocabulary quickly.

You can give it a try at Byki.com

Multimedia Chinese Teaching System (RMCTS) provides free Chinese classes online for different level of learners. It includes lessons at basic, beginner, intermediate and advance levels. Each lesson is designed around a specific topic and a set of grammatical forms and is written in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. The lesson has entire text with a voice recording, vocabulary list with Pinyin and English translation, grammatical notes, sentence patterns and exercise. Check it out at chinese.rutgers.edu

The BBC offers beginner lessons and travel phrases in a wide variety of languages. The website includes online multimedia language learning software, videos and more. Take a look.

Semanda.com provides illustrated flashcards for beginners in mandarin Chinese. They are available as part of an online quizz as well as printable PDF cards.

goonlinetv.com hosts a collection of links to more than 3000 free online TV channels worldwide. Just select a country and choose a channel to immerse yourself in your target language. Most of the channels require Windows Media Player (or a compatible player), some of them require RealPlayer.

First Year Chinese II is a mandarin Chinese course of the Utah State University. The course is under a Creative Commons License.

Overview

This course provides an understanding of basic principles of Chinese speaking and written language. The focus is on pronunciation and simple Chinese character writing.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Read and write Chinese characters from Lesson 1 to Lesson 15 of Practical Chinese Reader
2. Obtain skills to accomplish exercises from Exercise V to Exercise IX of Practical Chinese Reader I: Patterns & Exercises
3. Carry on simple daily conversation

Texts

1. Beijing Language Institute, (1993). Practical Chinese Reader Elementary Course: Book I
2. Chu, M. M. (1992). Practical Chinese Reader I: Patterns & Exercises.
3. Teng, S. H. (1993). Practical Chinese Reader I & II: Writing Workbook.

Contents of the Package

• Video Lessons
• Grammar Sheets
• Practice Assignements

The Course is based on the Practical Chinese Reader which is not included.

Download
first_year_chinese2.zip (238MB)

First Year Chinese I is a mandarin Chinese course of the Utah State University. The course is under a Creative Commons License.

Overview

This course provides an understanding of basic principles of Chinese speaking and written language. The focus is on pronunciation and simple Chinese character writing.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Read and write Chinese characters from Lesson 1 to Lesson 7 of Practical Chinese Reader
2. Obtain skills to accomplish exercises from Exercise I to Exercise IV of Practical Chinese Reader I: Patterns & Exercises
3. Carry on simple daily conversation

Texts

1. Beijing Language Institute, (1993). Practical Chinese Reader Elementary Course: Book I
2. Chu, M. M. (1992). Practical Chinese Reader I: Patterns & Exercises.
3. Teng, S. H. (1993). Practical Chinese Reader I & II: Writing Workbook.

Contents of the Package

• Video Lessons
• Grammar Sheets
• Practice Assignements

The Course is based on the Practical Chinese Reader which is not included.

Download
first_year_chinese1.zip (600MB)