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Language Resources

Dictionaries and Character Tools:

Chinese Character Dictionary - incredibly comprehensive database which allows you to search for characters by meaning or romanisation. Even better, you can choose what to display for the character once it is found, such as jyutping romanisation or a link to a sound file of how to pronounce it. I use this site a lot to help me put these pages together.

MDBG free online dictionary - this dictionary offers character and word lookups, using the Unihan and CEDICT databases as a base. It also has a brilliant Javascript chinese input tool.

FSI Cantonese Language Course - thanks to the sterling efforts of some volunteers, the entire FSI Cantonese course is now available to download for free! more information...

Mandarin Tools - this site is packed with helpful utilities such as Java flashcards and many dictionaries and conversion tools. Note it is only concerned with mandarin and the author states that he does not have plans to add cantonese specific resources. However, for written Chinese this site is excellent.

Cantonese Learning Centre - lots of useful Cantonese specific resources here, including a talking dictionary (Internet Explorer only).

WWWJDic - Kapanese Kanji lookup tool, has relevance for Chinese learners too (eg: you can find all character with the "heart" radical in it.

DELETED, SITES DOWN - Dylan Sung has two websites filled with useful resources for people researching Chinese (advanced).

Misc Language Resources :

UK Federation of Chinese Schools - details of schools, exams, textbooks and more for the UK.

PopJisyo - an extremely impressive Chinese/Japanese/Cantonese dictionary interface to the web. Try browsing this site using it to see what I mean.

Learn Chinese EZ - contains many free lessons with each word or sentence having a high quality sound file. Cantonese and Mandarin are both catered for, with extra lessons available via a reasonably priced members area. Personal tuition by the webmaster via Skype is also available.

Chinese Characters and Culture - a mandarin site but still highly recommended.

Learning Chinese Online - another extremely useful repository of links which are nicely laid out.

Languages of China - the users of this site have been extremely helpful in answering my questions. I have also used parts of some of the posts in my "notes" sections at the bottom of the revision sheets.

Online Character Animations - lots of lessons on how to write characters correctly. Your browser will need to support Java to view them. Mandarin readings only but the animations are excellent.

Character Writing Sheets - traditional school sheets for practising to write characters. You will need Adobe Acrobat reader software to view the sheets.

China Online - Jun Shan's comprehensive online to just about everything Chinese!

Chinese Dialects - About.com's guide to Chinese dialects (Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, Taiwanese and others).

MyCantonese.com - uses online forums to teach Cantonese. This would be a nice website but it is unfortunately always very slow whenever I visit.
UPDATE: Last time I checked this site was broken due to database errors.

Chinese-Lessons.com - this site seems excellent, it contains lessons for Cantonese and Mandarin and also has several useful essays on learning. Be warned that it uses Yale romanisation though (this site uses Jyutping - such is life!)

Medical Chinese - this site aims to provide medical vocabulary, such as phrases used when taking a Physical. Unusually, it contains Cantonese as well as Mandarin!

Christian Richard's Colloquial Cantonese site - this has been updated recently with some characters as well as pronunciation. CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT

Maxent - Some fun and interesting essays from Maxent.

Asia Wind - Calligraphy pages

Cantonese Audio Bible - the entire bible read out in Cantonese! (Mp3 format)

Legion's Cantonese Learning Tools - At the time of writing there are three online quizzes to try with more to be added in the future.

Cantonese Learning Material Recommendations - Derek has published an extremely useful set of links to products he has found helpful whilst learning Cantonese.

Rice Box Project - this is a nicely designed site with some nice tutorials.

Chinese-Tools.com - free online audio courses (Mandarin). They have French, Spanish, German and Portugese versions too.

Sanbit - an online serivce supporting user vocabulary lists you can customise and share with others.

Chinese Texts

The Chinese Reading World - short "readings" for beginner and intermediate levels.

More Readings - more texts in Chinese, such as humour and idioms.

Chinese Characters and Culture - see above

Free Chinese Dictionary - an offline dictionary.

Franklin's McMug & McDull Collection - lots of Cantonese cartoons featuring a pair of pigs!

Chinalane - this is a beuatifully made site aimed at Chinese children (so there is no English translation). The page I am linking to contains poems with sound files. You can click a button to hear either Mandarin or Cantonese readings with the characters appearing as they are spoken.

StoryCola - this is a site aimed at children and contains lots of texts. The sound files are all Mandarin but this doesn't affect the text. Note you have to register (free) to gain access to the whole site.

www.csn23.com - many online forums for Chinese people, if your Chinese is good enough you may like to see how much you can understand!

She.com - these online forums are frequented by Cantonese speakers and therefore you can pick up a lot of colloquial Cantonese. This will help your Cantonese as normal written texts are of course in Mandarin.

Cantonese Garden - Jackie Cheung's site has some Chinese idioms, romanised into Cantonese and very nicely explained with the background broken down into compound words.

Cantonese Music

Faye Wong website - lists lyrics in Chinese for many of Faye's songs. Faye sings in Madarin and Cantonese and the English translations are also shown. There seem to be two versions of this website - the other one is here.

Icycloud's Lyrics Pages - icycloud (the author of HanDict) has written out the lyrics of over 50 songs in Chinese.

Cantonese Radio

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Chinese Culture

British Chinese Society - a must for people in the UK looking to get involved in Chinese events.

ThingsAsian - a travel and cultural blog covering the whole of Asia, for example, the Hong Kong section is here. Features quality writing and a wealth of information - a must-read site if you are planning a trip to Asia.

China the Beautiful - this site contains art, literature, poetry, culture and lots more. Definitely recommended.

Hakka - an important element of Chinese culture - focusing on Hakka Chinese.

Internet Guide for China Studies - contains hundreds of links

MCLC Resource Centre - literally hundreds of links to do with Chinese language, culture and more.

Chinese Forums - these forums contain a lot of cultural information, as well as language advice. Many members are Chinese but most posts are in English.

China-Kontor - Directory featuring a comprehensive collection of links to Chinese guides and resources. Chinese shopping stores, China and international news, entertainment and much more.

Cartoon Win - a lot of Chinese art, stories and comic illustrations.

Chinavoc - lots of cultural sections including this nice calligraphy section on how to write Chinese characters.

BatGung.com - a highly entertaining blog written by Messrs Tall and Balding. Definitely read if you are a westerner going to live in Hong Kong for any length of time.

Chinese New Year e-cards - free to send to your friends and family!

China Owl - articles, blogs, photos and reviews by people living in China.

Cantonese DVD's

Hong Kong Legends - this company produce the finest DVD versions of Hong Kong Movies that it is possible to own. Definitely recommended!

Bullets and Babes DVD's - A superb review site for all the best Hong Kong DVD film titles. Warning, some adult content!

Kung Fu Flick Dubbing - a fascinating article from someone involved with dubbing martial arts films into English during the 70's.

Kung Fu Cinema - reviews, articles, forums and cool wallpaper graphics!

Westerners in Hong Kong

河國榮之網誌, An Aussie in Hong Kong - The blog of 河國榮 (Gregory Charles Rivers) - arguably the most famous Western Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong.

Daisann's Blog - Lots of well written commentary on Hong Kong life, covering language learning, politics and more.

Chinese Programming

Chih-Hao Tsai's Technology Page - lots of frequency lists and resources.

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