Educational Resource List

http://www.oneminutelanguages.com/

From the website: “Welcome to One Minute Languages where you can learn the basics of a language in a matter of minutes.”

http://www.chinesesavvy.com

From the website: “Chinese Savvy is a comprehensive and efficient new web-based tool for Chinese language learning.”

http://www.mychineseclass.com/mianmian/authors.htm

The textbook series is “ideal for intermediate-high to advanced-low students”. The linked page is to a bio for the authors (at the time of posting, the bare domain URL was not resolving.) There are sample lessons and other materials.

http://www.hnhsoft.com/dictec

From the website: “It contains over 140,000+ entries, Pinyin (the official Chinese phonetic system), and most remarkably, a real person’s pronunciation for every single Chinese word!”

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=189

Victor Mair, a deservingly respected scholar, discusses Chinese reading pedagogy and ways to promote character reading through more effective use of romanization.

http://www.smarthanzi.net/

This website provides a Chinese dictionary provided from public sources, with keyword search, Hanzi/Chinese character-based search, and basic text parsing. Although the offerings on this site are common among public online Chinese-English dictionaries, I find the presentation on this one to be uncommonly well done. Kudos to the developer for a handsome, cleanly designed site!

http://chinesepod.com/

From the website: “ChinesePod is a language training service unlike anything you have ever seen before. It works by taking the best of the traditional classroom, and recreating it around the needs and lifestyle of the student, with all the improvements that technology allows. Therefore, just like a traditional classroom, ChinesePod provides a community of practice: great teachers, lively discussion with fellow students, and a shared learning experience.”

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

Provides a free online Chinese-English dictionary. Has a nice “word decomposition” feature that gives definitions for characters in multi-character words.

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

From the website: “This free online dictionary, which contains over 180,000 entries, is designed for students of Mandarin Chinese.”

Windows and Internet Explorer are required to listen to audio, which opens in a popup window.