Foreign Languages Research Guide

This site provides a Chinese word and character per day.

Learn how to choose the language of your results in EBSCO's databases.

Mandarin Chinese study tips, a language blog, audio files, and more

Download and listen to mp3 recordings of essential phrases in Chinese

Free online Chinese-English and English-Free online Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary in both simplified and traditional characters. Can be a bit confusing to use, but very informative. Along with pinyin, you can also use bopomofo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) to find your Chinese character (click on the Dictionary link, then the Browse bopomofo link).

This site provides multiple tools to learn Chinese both language and writing. Many additional links provided for dictionaries and glossaries, as well as links about Chinese culture.

Brief introduction to using a Chinese dictionary. Learn four different ways a Chinese dictionary may be organized: by Western alphabet (pinyin or other romanization), by radicals, by number of strokes used to write the character, and by the four corner number code.

Duke University's online guide for learning to read Chinese characters.

Provides pronunciation for multiple languages, including Mandarin Chinese.

Use interactive flash cards and games to learn Chinese through Visual Link® Languages by the U.S. Institute of Languages (Website is supported by advertising). Additional tools are also provided to help you learn and study Chinese.

Browse by language, then download the entire audiobook or listen online.

Learn Chinese from podcasts, transcripts and other tools. Each lesson has both an MP3 file, and the text, for you to download.

Games, puzzles, flash cards and other resources in Mandarin Chinese.

Use the Chinese Text Annotation tool to add pinyin above Chinese characters and spaces between words to your Chinese text to make it easier to read!

Free online translation dictionary.

Newspaper and new media links by region and country.

A complete list of Chinese newspapers online.