The following sites may be useful to instructors of Chinese

MaxAuthor: for PC only. Without any programming, MaxAuthor lets you create language
instruction courseware for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and 44 other languages.
Completed courseware can utilize audio, video, footnotes, and graphics.

Chinese Language Related Information Page: listen to Chinese, download language software or text files, or link to the Chinese featured site of the week. Much of the info is in English but links to Chinese magazine articles that can be read if you have the appropriate fonts installed.

RTHK on the Internet: links to Radio Television Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, TV and Radio News on the Internet. See and hear the latest from Hong Kong.

Mandarin Chinese using VOA: if you need some practice with Mandarin, here's the place to go. You will find transcriptions of the Voice of America reports in Mandarin and sound clips for those with real audio installed.

Zhongwen Zipu Chinese Character Genealogy: Chinese-English entomology site includes Chinese character generation as well as a long list of Chinese related sites. Don't miss the Confucian texts!

Chinese Learner's Alternative Page :links to language, movies, literature, food, and other practical info for learners of Chinese.

Authentic Chinese Text: a story on entitled "Eyewitness Account: Arrest of a Criminal Suspect" is presented with pre and post activities which move the student through various levels of comprehension and production.

Chinese Classics: a collection of Chinese classic literature plus technical support for reading Chinese on the WWW.

The land of beauty: great pictures of the top ten scenic sites in China.

Online Resources-Chinese: dedicated to materials for language learning, this site includes culture, literature, pronunciation, links to practice materials in all four modalities, and much more.

Learning Chinese Online

Study Mandarin

On-line Chinese Tools

Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese. Language learning site featuring sections such as Days of the Week, Glossary of Bird names, Harry Potter in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese. Also includes a description of the Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese writing systems and the Transliteration of Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese.

East Asian Studies Internet Resources. A large collection of links, sorted by type and language, for students of East Asian cultures and languages, focussing in particular on China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

BBC Mandarin Online: News stories and RealAudio broadcasts in Mandarin from the BBC World Service. Also available in Cantonese.

Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: The CTCFL site, hosted at the University of Oxford, has a large number of annotated and categorised resources for learners of Chinese at all levels. They've recently developed an online elementary Chinese course, for which you need to apply for a login name and password.

Chinese-Language-Related Information page

Chinese Software Web Site: The main feature of this website is the downloadable KuaiXue software for learning Chinese.

China Pages: Official news and information about the PRC, mostly in English, but with some pages in Chinese. However, there's no indication on the site as to which font to use to read the Chinese.

The Chinese Biographical Database: A moderated online database useful for research and as an
educational tool.

Chinese Character Dictionary: Interactive English/Pinyin/Cantonese dictionary.

Multi-media Project for the Teaching and Learning of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong: This project is developing CAL software for learning Chinese, and a shareware version is available for download from the site.

Ocrat Chinese Pages: Learn to draw Chinese characters by watching animated GIFs, and study
intermediate-level Mandarin Chinese by listening to VOA broadcasts.

Online Chinese Tools: Resources to assist learners and users of Chinese, including interactive
Chinese character flashcards (uses Java), a character dictionary, a module to add pinyin to files,
and encoding converters.