I’m studying Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) 1A through Griffith University. It’s worth doing a search through Firefox add-ons for Chinese within language support for things like
- Chinese-Japanese-English Character Hint Bar
Moji side-bar and dictionaries can be found at http://moji.mozdev.org/
Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator
Try tunes from Petrol Exotic‘s Shanghai: The Sex, The City, The Music like track 2 The Wandering Songstress Remix by Chow Hsuan - If you care to shell out just a few dollars, there are a few English to Mandarin short videos in the NOT lost in translation series,
Language Lessons for the 21st Century
. - 30+ Language Tools for Firefox are listed at mashable.com
You can also try some free podcasts such as newbie lessons at Chinesepod.com
How about 500 free lessons? If you know how to download torrents then you could have got Chinesepod.com lessons 1-500! (http://bt.chinesepod.com:81/bt/chinesepod.com1-500.torrent) No longer available though, perhaps check out the lesson sets that interest you.
