Useful links for Chinese learners 中文學習者的有用鏈接

Chinese-English Dictionaries

Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage

humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk

A good Chinese dictionary that allows you to search for both single characters and full phrases.

Cantodict Chinese Word List

www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk

An excellent Cantonese-Mandarin-English dictionary maintained by Adam Sheik and forum members.

MDBG Free Online Dictionary

us.mdbg.net

This dictionary lets you search using English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

Online Chinese Learning Resources

FSI Language Courses

http://fsi-language-courses.com/

A good online Cantonese course provided for free by the webmaster and volunteers at FSI, using Yale romanisation and loads of audio examples. Unfortunately, Chinese characters are not taught. An excellent free resource for absolute beginners though.

Cantonese Learning Centre

http://www.clc.com.hk/index.html

Some good resources for learning Cantonese including the Online talking Chinese dictionary

PopJisyo

www.popjisyo.com

A really good site that lets you read Japanese, Chinese and Korean web sites with pop-up hints, move the mouse over words you want to lookup

Mandarin Tools

http://www.mandarintools.com/

This site provides tools for people who are already studying and using Chinese such as the DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant, Character Flashcards, the Chinese/English dictionary, the Chinese Namer, and the Western/Chinese Calendar Converter.

UK Federation of Chinese Schools

http://www.ukfcs.info/

The UK Federation of Chinese Schools (UKFCS), is a charity that aims to promote, through its member schools, Chinese language education and Chinese culture.

Adam Sheik's Cantonese Site

www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk

A huge site with help sheets, online flashcards, tests, dictionary and an extremely friendly Cantonoese learning community in the forum.