This is a Microsoft Word Template which has macros for converting back and forth between pinyin using digits and pinyin using accent marks. Usage instructions are in the document. This template was created using macros provided at Tianwei Xie's website
This is a package that adds support to Windows to allow the user to enter text in pinyin, and then select the appropriate traditional and simplified characters. It supports word context - it will select the proper characters based on the likelyhood of two words going together. The package is free.
The most popular chinese text processor. It is commericial, but it is also powerful.
An open source Hanzi character quiz program.
An open source Hanzi character learning aid.
Professor Mary Jacob has made coursework for her Integrated Chinese course at UC Davis available. On the site are materials for first and second year chinese as well as Chinese literature courses. The following games are available for Characters-Pinyin, Pinyin-English, and Characters-English skills:
Matching
Flash Cards
Concentration
Word-Search
Sentence Patterns
This site contains the dialogues from Integrated Chinese Level 1 read aloud in high quality audio, as well as listening excercises, multiple choice, fill in the blanks, and unscrambling of sentences.
Harvard's guide to Mandarin pronunciation, using Pinyin and audio files.
Listening excersizes for tones, initials, and finals.
Many lessons with animated character strokes, pinyin, english, and audio pronunciation.
A powerful online etymological dictionary that can be searched by pronunciation, character radical, stroke count, and English word. You will also find a Pinyin chat and Chinese literature.
A free machine translation service that can translate from English to Simplified and Traditional Chinese and back again. It's done by a computer, so it doesn't always make sense. They offer human assistance for a fee.
Wenlin Institute is a company that provides Wenlin 3, a software dictionary, editor, and educational tool. While somewhat expensive, it comes highly recommended by Xi Lien and others, and is used by scholars of the Chinese language.
An online dictionary that allows the user to search for English words in the actual definition and usage description of a Chinese word. There are also radical, pinyin, and English indexes for traditional dictionary-style lookup.
A project for creating a free chinese-pinyin-english dictionary database. The file created by this project is used in many free products for Windows, Palm, and the web. A website dictionary that uses CEDICT is here.
A great site with various online tools including character flash cards, pinyin editing, pinyin conversion (between Hanyu, Wade-Giles, Yale, Guoinll, BoPoMoFo, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, and French), simplified to traditional character conversion, and oither fun tools.
A web directory for resources to help with learning the Chinese language, including pronunciation, characters, grammar, learning materials, and book reviews.
The oldest web directory of all things Chinese, including art, media, entertainment, history, travel, etc.
List of many measure words
Excellent Chinese/English Dictionary
Children's literature with annotated characters