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[] Comprehensive site for learning characters. Lots of information here.

[|www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/flashcards.php] Nice online flashcards tool

[|chinesebug.com] Flashcard tool specifically design for memorizing Mandarin vocabulary and characters.

[|www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm] Good explanation of Chinese characters

[|www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/hanzi/index.html] Good explanation of Chinese characters

[|http://www.earlyword.net/index _w.asp] Jiaguwen character images

[|www.sinoling.com/linguistics/Character_pronunciation.htm] List of characters by pronunciation

[] Step by step lesson on characters, including strokes and radicals

[] Fun page on traditional and simplified

[] Fun and interactive look at the different types of characters

[|http://ultra.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~bronze/] Fascinating page – in Chinese – on ancient Chinese characters

[] Cool online interactive program – in Chinese - to help learn characters

[|http://www.internationalscientific.org] Absolutely amazing site for character etymology, full of pictures from Jiaguwen on. [|www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/sobelman/radicals/] Excellent presentation on radicals

[] Nice explanation – in Chinese – of stroke order and radicals

[] Step by step lesson on characters, including strokes and radicals [|www.csulb.edu/~txie/azi/page1.htm] Animated stroke order

[|www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/] Animated characters by lesson

[|www.0to12.com/list/han/han1.htm] 2500 characters; flash that you have to download

[] Nice explanation – in Chinese – of stroke order and radicals

[] Step by step lesson on characters, including strokes and radicals

[] Tests your ability to write in the correct order. [|www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Pinyin.htm] Pronunciation of most sounds.

[|www.uvm.edu/~chinese/pinyin.htm] Pinyin table with sound files

[|www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epinyin/] Good pronunciation sound files

[|www.sinoling.com/linguistics/Character_pronunciation.htm] List of characters by pronunciation

[] Nice pinyin table with pronunciation of all sounds/tones

[] [] Great tone drill. [] 2 tones in a row drill

[] A site for practicing tones and tone combinations.

[] [|www.pinyinpractice.com] Just what it says

[|www.pinyin.org] Complete explanation of pinyin

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[|http://web.mit.edu/~jinzhang/www/pinyin/]

[] [|www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/grammarlist.htm] Good list of basic grammatical structures

[] Nice though limited list of items by Yale

[] A few important grammar points

[|www.sinoling.com/en/linguistics/Measure_words_inventory.htm] Large list of measure words

[|www.sinoling.com/en/linguistics/Measure_words_usage.htm] Examples of the use of of measure words

[] Explanations and exercises

[] Nice examples of measure words (in Chinese)

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[] [|www.languageguide.org/mandarin] Pictures and audio arranged around themes

[|www.nciku.com/theme] Pictures and audio arranged around themes

[|chinesebug.com] Flashcard tool specifically designed for memorization of Mandarin vocabulary and characters. [|zhongwen.com] Great dictionary. Traditional characters. Look up by radical, strokes or pinyin.

[|nciku.com] New dictionary where you can write the character using your mouse.

[|www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/ccdict/] Search using several methods.

[] -Excellent online English-Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary. Search for words by Chinese, Pinyin, or English definition.

[|www.cojak.org/index.php?function=about] interesting interface with all the characters, mostly by lists of radicals

[] nice dictionary with phonetic elements as well as radicals

[|www.dict.cn] a dictionary

[] Lin Yutang dictionary []

[] [|chinesepod.com] Learn with podcasts

[|http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/index.html] - audio tutorial of basic Chinese phrases. Topics include teaching, parenting, greetings, shopping, dining, traveling, time, weather and holidays.

[] - Chinese music radio. Listen to popular music in Mandarin 24/7.

[] Intermediate to advanced short audio pieces with text. [|www.chinanews.com.cn] News in Chinese

[|www.chinastudygroup.net] Somewhere between academic and news.

[|www.xinhua.org] Xinhua news

[|www.chinadigitaltimes.net] News of China from UC Berkeley [] Maps of China

[|http://ibiblio.org/chinesehisto ry/imagemap.html] Clickable Map

[|http://www.enchantedlearning .com/asia/china/] maps and other images [|www.sinology.cn/main/book1/mjwj.htm] Online versions of works by a wide range of modern authors.

[|www.white-collar.net/wx_hsz/hsz_mjyj.htm] Online versions of works by a wide range of modern authors.

[|www.0to12.com/] Lots of different flash files with poetry

[] - The 300 poems of the Tang Dynasty in English translation.

[|http://www.renditions.org /renditions/] magazine

[|http://www.answers.com/topic /list-of-chinese-authors] Great list of Chinese writers

[|http://newton.uor.edu/Departmen ts&Programs/AsianStudiesDept /china-lit.html] List of Chinese literature web resources

[|http://www.chinaknowledge.de /Literature/literature.html] Literature

[] Very large selection of Tang poems, Confucius' writing, etc.

[] 300 Tang Poems

[|http://www.sacred-texts.com /tao/index.htm] anciet texts

[|http://afe.easia.columbia.edu /china/philo/confuc.htm] Confucian thought

[|http://www.confucius.org/lunyu /lange.htm] Lunyu

[|http://pacificcoast.net/~wh /Index.html] I Ching

[|http://www.religiousworlds.com /taoism/cz-text2.html] Taoism

[|http://www.chinaknowledge.de /Literature/Religion/religions .html] Religion

[] Very large selection of Tang poems, Confucius' writing, etc.   [|www.sinoling.com/zh/culture/Signs_in_Chinese.htm]  Large collection of signs in Chinese

[] Nice collection of photographs

[] Great selection of songs, movies, and literature.

http://chinesesigns.wikispaces.com A collection of over 400 photos of signs

[] Harvard's collection of rubbings online [] List of various Mandarin Chinese test for assessing ability.

[] All about the HSK 汉语水平考试 [] Wonderful online resources about Asia

[|http://jsis.washington.edu /earc/links.shtml#k12] Great list of Internet resources for Asia here

[|http://www.paulnoll.com/China /index.html] lots of information about various aspects of China

[|http://www.monkeytree.org /PhotoSee.html] nice photos free for educational use

[|http://www.askasia.org/teachers /lessons/] Lesson Plans

[|http://www.thinkquest.org /library/search.html] lots of great teaching material

[|http://www.historylink101.net /china/index.htm] photos

[|http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/tools.html] Tim Xie's list of online tools for Chinese teachers

[|http://www.lmp.ucla.edu] UCLA Language Materials Project; searchable list of materials

[] Free, printable flash cards with pictures, Chinese, pinyin and English

http://chinesesigns.wikispaces.com A collection of over 400 photos of signs

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[] [|http://www.chinaknowledge.de /History/history.htm] History

[|http://www.paulnoll.com/China /index.html] lots of information about various aspects of China History

[] A comprehensive study of all aspects of Chinese history and society

[|http://www.chinaknowledge.de /History/history.htm] History

[|http://www-chaos.umd.edu /history/toc.html] Comprehensive Chinese history

[] Chinese history for beginners

[|http://depts.washington.edu /chinaciv/timeline.htm] time line and historical maps

[|http://depts.washington.edu /chinaciv/geo/geo.htm] Geography

[|http://chinadatacenter.org /chinageography/] Geography [|chinalinks.osu.edu] Marjorie Chan's set of links. Very comprehensive.

[|www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/] Another big list of links

[|www.csulb.edu/%7Etxie/online.htm] Yet another good list of Chinese learning links

[|http://newton.uor.edu/Departmen ts&Programs/AsianStudiesDept /china-lit.html] List of Chinese literature web resources

[|http://jsis.washington.edu /earc/links.shtml#k12] Great list of Internet resources for Asia here

[|chinasite.com] A wide collection of links on all areas dealing with China

[] Lots of links

[] A wide range of China links

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[|http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/%7Ersimmon/#LearningChinese] Great list from a Chinese professor

[] Very comprehensive list of links

[] Nice but brief list of links

[] Language related

[] Nice list

[] Another well thought out list of good Chinese learning tools. [|www.wenlin.com] An excellent Chinese dictionary program for PCs

[|www.pleco.com] An excellent dictionary program for your Palm or Pocket PC. If you are going to study in an intensive program, this is a must have.

[|chinesebug.com] A flashcard tool specifically designed for memorizing Mandarin vocabulary and characters.

[|www.yale.edu/chinesemac] All about using Chinese on a Ma

[|www.pinyinjoe.com/pinyin/pinyin_setup.htm] Help for setting up chinese in Windows XP

[|www.charactermine.com] A flashcard style self-test program with deep cross-referencing to help build connections. See the video presentation on the website to get an idea. [] []

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[] Another private school trip open to others; 6 weeks of language and travel.

[] For incoming juniors and seniors, get 4 college credits.

[|http://www.isemn.org]

[] New program

[|http://www.chinayourway.org]

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[] Scholarships for study in China

[|http://www.mmla.middlebury.edu] Vermont and California

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[] in Minnesota. A semi-immersion 2 or 4-week program.

[|http://www.chinasummerstudy.org] in Beijing

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[|http://www.windsormountain.org /student-travel-community -service/community-service -china.html]

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[|www.sinolanguage.com] in Beijing

[|www.yfu-usa.org] Full year and gap year program

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[] The Rassias method, in Yunnan.

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[] A program for school groups. Not language focused.

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[|www.csiprograms.org] Chinese Studies institute COLLEGE

[] University of Rhode Island summer program. Half in RI, half in China. COLLEGE

[] Great list of programs for college and beyond

[] Here's a search engine for programs to study Chinese, Japanese and Korean, geared towards college students.

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[|http://www.bard.edu/academic/ programs/bardinchina] COLLEGE

[|http://www.NextStepChina.org]

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[|www.borenawards.org] Grants (not specifically summer) fro grads and undergrads

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[] [] Searchable site with 1000 teaching materials at UCLA. [|Howma Blog] A Chinese learning blog that reviews tools to help you learn Chinese.