This page will be where I collect links to language resources I’ve found online, those specifically for Chinese, and other more general ones.

NOTE: I am not personally endorsing any of these sites or any goods or services they may offer. These are simply sites I have found that may be of interest or useful to you. That’s all. Follow these links at your own risk.

Chinese language resources:

Hanban (The Office of Chinese Language Council International)

News in Chinese

Chinese forums

Chinese blast

Sinoling

Pristine lexicon

Sino-Platonic papers

Chinese etymology homepage

Xuezhongwen.net

Hanyuwang

Linese

Chinese teaching resources

Zhongwen.com

Online Chinese tools

Handian

Active Chinese (I think these guys might want your money, though….)

Write in Chinese

Wengu read classical Chinese

Mountain Songs Chinese poetry

Chinese learner

Pinyin practice

Love mandarin (don’t worry, it’s not some kind of bizarre fruit p*rn)

Clavis Sinica (another one that may want money, but I haven’t looked to closely yet)

Chinese Learning Objects (from the (American) National Foreign Language Centre, linked below)

eChineseLearning

nciku A terrible English name, but it looks like a pretty good, and free, dictionary.

Target Chinese from New Oriental.

General resources:

Wortschatz 17 corpus-based monolingual dictionaries

World Wide Words

Word Reference.com

Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary The record of the English language. There is no other.

Online Etymology Dictionary but wait, another OED? What’s going on here?

The Free Dictionary for those too cheap to follow that Oxford link

Language Log A group blog by a bunch of linguists.

Summer Institute of Linguistics

National Foreign Languages Centre of the University of Maryland- yes that is National as in American, and other snarky comments.

Anything I missed? Any more cool language and linguisticky stuff you’ve found? Suggestions are welcome.