Online dictionaries

HNHSoft English-Chinese Dictionary
http://www.HNHSoft.com/dictec
This is a great dictionary for Chinese language students. Compatible with all major mobile platforms including BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Java Smartophones, it is an ideal mobile companion for anyone who wishes to learn or become more fluent in Chinese. The bi-directional dictionary contains over 140,000+ entries, Pinyin (the official Chinese phonetic system), and most remarkably, a real person's pronunciation for every Chinese word. It also provides a study tool that allows you to organize your own list of words. You can review the words any time you want, as often as you want, and even test if you have memorized your words. No matter you are already bilingual, a beginner, or just a traveler that needs a translation tool, you will find this dictionary useful.

The company has generously offered students taking classes at the UN Chinese Language Programme a free license to use the dictionary. If you are interested, please contact support@hnhsoft.com.

Chinese-English dictionary
http://www.ok88.com/go/svc/ecdict.html
Type a word in English, you will get its Chinese equivalent.

Chinese-English dictionary
http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html
Type or paste a word in Chinese, you will get its English equivalent.

Simplified characters
http://zhongwen.com/jian.htm
Click on any character to see its simplified form (and its definition and etymology).

Chinese Character Pronunciations
http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/reaf/

http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/chargif/
Input (copy-and-paste) any Chinese text and obtain the transliterated pronunciation of each Chinese character. Follow links to online Chinese magazines and use this application to lookup pronunciations of unfamiliar words.

Handwriting Recognition Tool

http://www.nciku.com

http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/mouse.html

Both sites allow you to draw a character with your mouse and then select the appropriate character from the list.

General Tool Kit

http://www.chinese-tools.com
Online Mandarin courses, Chinese dictionary, Chinese calligraphy studio, Chinese name translation, Chinese songs, Chinese poems, Chinese editor, chinese annotation tool, Chinese dictionary, converters for pinyin, unicode, traditional and simplified Chinese, tools to build Chinese websites, etc...

Online Chinese Course

http://hanyu.com.cn/en/default.asp
The largest of its kind and it is free.

Online Language Assistant

http://www.oneglobe.com/OLA

You can read, write, speak and listen to each other (or to the computer) in Chinese, Spanish, and English. They have a number of options:

-- Take a prepared lesson with a partner
-- Take a prepared lesson with the computer
-- Speak freely with a partner
-- Speak directly to the computer (experimental)
-- Join a group discussion

The interface is easy to use, and you can send email or feedback if you have any questions or suggestions.

Language Exchange

http://mylanguageexchange.com

Users can create a free profile asking members from more than 100 countries to contact them and become e-mail, VoIP or online chat buddies.

Traditional characters and simplified characters conversion

http://www.ee-studio.com/tools/sim_tra.html

Add tone marks to pinyin

http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/chinese/big5-simple.html

http://www.chinese-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=19713>

http://www.mandarintools.com/addpyfile.html
 

Pinyin Font Converter

http://www.foolsworkshop.com/pfc.html 

In order to input romanized Chinese in Pinyin using the 4 tones of Mandarin Chinese, special fonts are used to mark vowels with tones. A variety of these fonts are available online. The Pinyin Font Converter converts texts between some of the most popular Pinyin fonts that are available for Windows and Macintosh.
 

Annotation tool

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~chinese/annotate.html

Powerful tool to assist you with you reading. You can paste a reading text, press a
button and get an annotation with a glossary and pinyin marks.
 

Flashcards

Character flash cards
http://www.mandarintools.com/

http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/flshcrds.html
printable flashcards for learning characters

http://www.foolsworkshop.com/fw.html
flashcard wizard

A is for Love
http://www.chinapage.com/flash/love.html
This is a set of Flash Cards for learning Chinese. The face card shows a Chinese word. Click on the word will flip the card over, where the pronunciation and meaning are given.

Chinese Character Flashcards
http://www.erols.com/eepeter/flashcard.html
a Java applet to assist in the learning of Chinese characters

Flashcards
http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/flashcards.html
with a week by week schedule

Flashcards for Chinese textbooks
http://www.yellowbridge.com/flashcards
Free flashcards for Integrated Chinese, Beginners Chinese and Intermediate Chinese.

Bell Labs Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/mandarin.html
(traditional characters)
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/mandarin-gb.html
(simplified characters)
Type Chinese characters or pinyin, sound will be generated automatically.

Translation tools

Chinese Dragon Writer
http://www.jics.com/LNGCHI.htm
provides easy English to Chinese phrase translation input

Free Chinese to English language translation services online
http://www.lingo24.com/contextrans-chinese-english-translation-service.html
ContexTrans will aid in your understanding of Chinese, in particular the context in which Chinese is used. By drawing on a comprehensive database of professional human translations we can show you real-world samples that include your word or phrase.

Parasaurus Rex Chinese – alternative phrase finder/thesaurus
http://www.lingo24.com/parasaurus-chinese.html
If you have a passion for the Chinese language and want to broaden your linguistic horizons then we palce a fascinating tool at your disposal - Parasaurus Rex Chinese. The joy of languages is in their variation. Why stick with one translation time and time again when there are often so many alternatives? We'll prompt you with alternative words and their context and you can take your pick. Go on - spice up your language!

Online Chinese Translator
http://www.xuehanyu.org.cn/OnlineTranslate.asp
This tool provides English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation.