Help! I need to know good websites to learn chinese!

[iMeng@Meng]

Just like the heading says, I dont have access to a library right now and money a lil tight there.

I need a good website that would help me study chinese or a nice pdf document somewhere.

Please link me some

thanks in advance

[Meng Lelan]

www.chineseteachers.com to search for teachers who can provide you with pdf lesson materials and tutor you online. All you need is laptop and earphones.

[iMeng@Meng]

that requires money

dont have that now

[大肚男]

how about lang8.com, or any chinese podcast on iTunes like popupchinese.

also YouTube has a lot of learn Chinese channels

there's also "growing up Chinese" by CCTV

[Meng Lelan]

that requires money

dont have that now

The rates vary by teacher. A half hour lesson can be done for a few dollars.

[大肚男]

@Meng Lelan, while a couple of dollars is not considered a big deal for an average American, it could be for OP. I've been to countries where many are living off of less than $5 a day

[lechuan]

http://www.chineselearnonline.com/ Great progressive mp3 podcasts.

[Shelley]

Try trainchinese.com. It has free section.

[Meng Lelan]

@Meng Lelan, while a couple of dollars is not considered a big deal for an average American, it could be for OP.

The OP asked for good websites not free websites. Nor did the OP indicate a budget. Free/low cost websites are out there but like we say "you get what you pay for".

[Shelley]

The OP said "money a lil tight there", this indicates a budget to me, low cost or free seemed to be what was being indicated..

Maybe the OP could clear this up and indicate more precisely his needs.

[querido]

I figured out what was on this page before I could read Chinese. Maybe you can too.

Zhongwen pdf downloads

I also figured out how to navigate the following page on my own. Can you? If you can't I'll help you (if I have time).

Zhongwen courseware

[iMeng@Meng]

Let me clear this up, I meant Free websites, sorry. I have some good books on grammar just not anything with activities and such.

[Meng Lelan]

Ok, that helps. Free websites - look at the University of Iowa website called Chinese Reading World. You can choose topics and level for free. Also italki and lang8 are free. I believe that you can try FluentU free content, at least I did a few weeks ago. Hopefully those sites can help.

[HedgePig]

1) Rutgers University has a free, structured course.

http://chinese.rutge...u/content_e.htm

2) zhongwenred (http://www.zhongwenred.com/) and its sister sites www.zhongwenblue.com and www.zhongwengreen.com) have a lot of sample sentences, using a single new word. These sites have been unfinished for years but there is still quite a lot of information there.

3) The University of Iowa website mentioned by Meng Lelan is good but I don't think it's really a suitable self-teaching course, at least not as an introductory course. It's good for reading practice though, even if the "elementary" level covers more than 2000 different characters (admittedly introduced over 300 readings.)

[iMeng@Meng]

Hmm, I like rutgers. Z red is a lilttle ambiguous... ANything else yall?