Here’s what I use for Chinese:
- MDBG – This is the only online dictionary that I use anymore. Search for words in hanzi, pinyin, english, or use handwriting input! Click through to see stroke order, radicals and components, and to add a character to your Skritter.
- Skritter - Handwriting practice software. Awesome.
- Pleco - smartphone app. Search for words in hanzi, pinyin, English, handwriting input, or by pointing your phone’s camera at a character. Dictionaries are off-line, so they’re available to you even when you’re off the grid.
- Hanlexon - This site lets you create practice paper for specific characters; it includes pinyin and stroke order!
- MandarinPoster – This site sells a big poster of 1500 hanzi and 華語 satchels. It also has the following resources FREE: radical sheet at a glance, radical scroll, radical database.
- StudyMoreChinese – This site is kind of a forum for Chinese learning and learning materials. Users post blogs, videos, photos, etc. It’s kind of a treasure trove.
- iCIBA – convert hanzi to pinyin
- Google Pinyin - an pinyin input that will let you type in hanzi. Ctrl+shift+T will toggle you between simplified and traditional characters.
- Pinyinput – a keyboard IME that you install to your system. Download, unzip, install (right-click and “run as administrator”… very important). I sent mine to EN-(Australian), so it doesn’t mess with my numerous other keyboard IMEs.
- Chinese Class – my YouTube Chinese music playlist
- Language Guide’s Mandarin vocab page – a free mouse-over vocabulary page.
- This site shows and describes the strokes, along with the stroke names in hanzi and pinyin!
- Homemade hanzi practice paper (small)(large) - I made it myself, just the way I like it!
Blogs I read:
- iLearnMandarin – Skritter Jake holds court about his language learning experience in Taiwan.
- Dear Dim Sum - carts over steaming hot little dishes of daily vocab.
