Thursday, January 1, 2009

Learn Chinese (Mandarin) for free


The first post will be for those who want to learn Chinese (Mandarin).


I start from this language because it is the most commonly used language of the world. Mandarin Chinese is used by approximately 1.3 billion people worldwide. According to a data from 2004, the language is used by 53 percent China's population, and this is more than 600 million people. Maybe so large number of people speaking in that language encourage you to learn that language.


And now a list of websites that will help you learn or improve your language skills.


www.langmy.com - LangMy is a social bookmarking site made for people to discover and share language content. Thanks to the voting system, each user will be able to know which websites are the most valuable and the most helpful in learning a foreign language (such as Chinese, English, German, etc.).


http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/ - A great resource to start learning Chinese.


www.melnyks.com - Weekly lessons in Mandarin that get very strong reviews from iTunes use.


www.china-8.com - Learn Chinese online with free Mandarin lessons, dictionary, flashcards, China wiki and more at China-8.com. check it out


http://readchinese.nflc.org - Read Chinese - online e-learning reading lessons aimed at beginning and intermediate students of the language.


www.chinese-lessons.com - There are free, interactive online Cantonese lessons, Mandarin lessons, and Chinese character lessons. There are also comments on Chinese culture, and links to other Chinese resources.


www.zhongwen.com - Zhongwen.com contains the complete text of Amazon's (sometimes) best-selling and (frequently) best-reviewed : Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary using my character tree system. Distributed by Yale Univ. Press.


www.mandarintools.com - These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language.


www.chinese-forums.com – Great forums for learning chinese.


Much more interesting websites you'll find at www.LangMy.com


You can also use this online learning course for conversational Chinese: