Links
Arabic
Fun with Arabic-Learn arabic language online, the arabic alphabet, grammar and short phrases.
Companion site to Write it in Arabic: A Workbook and Step-by-Step Guide to Writing the Arabic Alphabet and Fun with Arabic: Learn Arabic the Fun and Easy Way (CD-ROM)
Kitab: Learning The Arabic Keyboard
"Kitab is a typing tutor for the Arabic keyboard layout. It is written in the Java programming language.... Kitab is... supported on any system with a Java Runtime Environment (this means Windows and Mac)."
Resources to accompany Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds by Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tonsi
Resources to accompany Al-kitaab fii Ta'allum Al-'Arabiyya by Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tonsi
Arabic flashcards created by Linguistic Solutions' president and CEO, Christopher Hurtado on Flashcard Exchange, "the world's largest flashcard library" Membership is free.
Syrian Arabic Language Course - Syrian Colloquial Arabic Course, now free of charge online
Chinese
The following list of links was compiled by Utah Valley State College (UVSC) Chinese Instructor, Trudy H. Owens. All of the site descriptions therein quoted are hers.
Flashcards and Characters
USC Chinese Group Character Project
"A limited, but useful list of characters showing in animation the stroke orders and radicals"
Most Frequently Used Chinese Characters
"This site has flaschcards specifically for Integrated Chinese lessons (which we are not using). If you sign up and pay a very small fee you may be able to make your own sets of flashcards.
"At the bottom of the page, click on either link to 'top 1000', then scroll down to a yellow bar that says 'Series'. By 'Integrated Chinese', choose level 1 or 2, click 'Go', then your chapter."
"This site has the top 1000 characters in groups of 100 (by frequency); they do not necessarily follow your text's order of introduction, and no stats are given.
"Two thirds of the way down the page, under the red bar, click on 'ChineseFlashcards', then choose which group of hundred characters you want to work on. You can click on several groups."
"A very educated site."
The most common Chinese characters
"This page has a list of the top 3000 characters in frequency order. Nothing for you to do. This is a massive site with lots of stuff on other pages, including a list of Chinese surnames, and some 'character trees' that are interesting to study (but won't help you pass tests)."
Character Conversion
"Download the Dimsum program and you can copy character texts and convert them from traditional to simplified and viceversa, or either to pinyin. When in characters, you can pass the cursor over them to get a superimposed image box with the pinyin pronunciation and a gloss for each character. Copy and paste back and forth to add pinyin to your documents."
Book of Mormon
Annotated Chinese Book of Mormon
"Read the entire Book of Mormon presented here with pinyin above the characters. Copy and paste into Dimsum to gloss the characters you don't know."
Music
The Chinese Outpost | A Language Learning and Culture Site
"You can listen to 1/2 hour of traditional Chinese music. It loops so will play forever and drive you crazy eventually, but this is nice to get you in the mood to study. There are also lots of other interesting pages. Under the banner heading, click on the little 'music' bar, then click on 'Start the Music'."
Pinyin
"Table of Combinations of the Initials and Finals in Common Speech"
Etcetera
Sinophilia Homepage - Chinese writing
Free Chinese software . Learn Chinese or Japanese with software from EuroAsiaSoftware
"Bad English, but good stuff."
"Great history of characters."
Learn To Read And Write Chinese Characters
"Interesting animated explanations; they go really fast, no pause for breath."
"Some good descriptions and examples of the different kinds of characters."
Practical Chinese Reader - Activity Builder
"Great fun way (games) to practice and learn."
Learning Chinese Online - Reading Materials
"Lots of links about reading."
Learning Chinese Online - Characters
"Lots of links."
"Animated stroke orders with sound. What's nice is that the animation is slow; it also teaches you the names of the strokes. Not so nice is that you have to find the characters yourself."
"Chengyu and fables to listen to and answer questions. Great advanced listening!"
"Huge site with lots of good information."
BBC - Languages - Learn Chinese
The following list of links was compiled by Linguistic Solutions' president and CEO, Christopher Hurtado, an avid sinologist. All site descriptions quoted therein are his.
Quia - Class Page - Mrs. Debra Wells
Quia class page of Springville Community Ed Program Beginning Chinese Instructor, Debra Wells. Quia activities and useful links.
Converts among traditional and simplified Chinese, Pinyin, and English. Click the Pinyin for pronunciation.
Contains the entire text of Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary using author Rick Harbaugh's character tree system.
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Grid for writing Chinese characters.
Pinyin - Yale - Wade-Giles transcription table.
ChinesePod.com offers free podcasts and other resources to help you learn Mandarin Chinese.
Chinese Characters Dictionary Web
Find a character in any one of more than a dozen dictionaries and you can follow the blue links, jumping among them all.
How to write Chinese Characters
Includes stroke types, stroke order, and component order.
Using the Chinese langauge on the Mac OS
Chinese flashcards created by Linguistic Solutions' president and CEO, Christopher Hurtado on Flashcard Exchange, "the world's largest flashcard library" Membership is free.
French
BBC - Languages - Learn French
German
MyGermanClass: a Video Podcast
Have fun learning German with this hillarious podcast.
Greek
Italian
BBC - Languages - Learn Italian
Portuguese
BBC - Languages - Learn Italian
Spanish
Companion site to Vacation Spanish: A Survival Guide for Mexico, the Caribbean, Central & South America.
BBC - Languages - Learn Spanish