Resources for Learning Chinese

Your best bet for studying Chinese is to go to a Chinese-speaking country and practice what you study -- there are Chinese language schools in many major cities in mainland China as well as a few in Taipei and Hong Kong. But if you're not able to go quite that far at the moment, there are a few sites around the web useful for computer-using Chinese learners...

http://ftp.ifcss.org and http://cnd.org --
combination sites with news, cultural, and miscellaneous information in addition to computing information and tools

ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/chinese/ -
the Chinese ftp directory of the New Mexico State University Computing Research Lab multilingual project -- a good source of fonts and datafiles

http://technology.chtsai.org/ -
more info on Chinese computing, especially on word composition and frequency data

http://www.webcom.com/~bamboo/chinese/ -
a list of Chinese-related ftp sites and lots of other stuff

http://zhongwen.com --
an excellent site with an online dictionary organized by component (not radical) with a very nice visual interface, lots of information about character construction, and much more...

Finally, Hanzi Master, or Hanzim, is a program I developed to help in remembering Chinese characters.

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