online resources to learn mandarin

 One of my greatest hobbies is learning languages. Unfortunately, I don't have neither the time nor the money to pay me a trip to a foreign country and stay there attending courses and living the local way of life until I consider myself fluent and move on to another language :-(

But I have discovered internet as the most flexible and poweful mean to achieve my goal. The web has an incredible amount of free resources, but it takes some time to discover the good ones. That's why I have decided to show here the best resources for learning mandarin chinese online that I have found so far, to share with anybody also interested in this topic, and I invite you to share with me the resources you may have found by yourself.

 Learning a language requires first of all a good dictionary at hand.

Online dictionaries are far better than printed ones, because they can include additional functionality, like audio records and even video on the topic that is being looked up.

When it comes to asian languages, whose written language is based on ideograms, as happens with mandarin, it is also very helpful to be able to draw a character with the mouse, and have the server search it.

The best mandarin dictionary I have found so far is http://www.nciku.com. Besides the possibility of writing a character, it includes a lot of example phrases for each character or word searched, together with their audio record.

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 If you are learning chinese, it is likely that you already have some chinese texts that you would like to understand. But those could be too difficult for a beginner. For the purpose of learning chinese, it is best to start with simple texts that can be easily learned, and move step by step to higher levels of complexity. Chinese Text Sampler is a place where you can find from simple text samples to modern and classic chinese literature, chinese fables, jokes, proverbs, and even mp3 audio. You can find also there a relation of the most commonly used chinese characters. If you are the methodical kind of guy, this list is perfect to challenge yourself: First, learn the 20 most used characters, then the next 20...