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Mandarin Chinese Language Study

Mandarin Chinese ('Guoyu' in Taiwan- 'country language', 'Putonghua' on the mainland -'common language') is the main, official language of mainland China and Beijing and was also the official language of Taiwan during martial law following WWII (ending in 1987.) Mandarin Chinese is still the main language in Taiwan, but as the population integrates, it is slowly being encroached upon by the Taiwanese dialect (although many young people in Northern Taiwan speak and understand little or no Taiwanese at all.)


Chinese Language & Culture forum	http://www.chinese-forums.com/
Let's Learn Taiwan Languages (eTaiwan News)	http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan_Languages/
Zhongwen.com - characters/culture	http://www.zhongwen.com/
Chinese Online	http://pratyeka.org/chinese/
Forumosa Learning Chinese forum	http://forumosa.com/chinese/
Recommended romanization-books	http://pinyin.info/readings/
The Chinese Outpost	http://www.chinese-outpost.com/
Pinyin-romanization of Mandarin	http://www.pinyin.info/
Chinese languages	http://chineselanguage.org/
The Chinese Language:Myths/Facts	http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/r000020.htm
So you want to learn Chinese?	http://www.roddyflagg.34sp.com/learn-chinese.html
Hanzi	http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/hanzi/index.html
Access to Chinese Language & Culture	http://www.lechinois.com/accesstochinese.html
Chinese characters computer input (info about the canjie input method)	http://www.cjmember.com/
Chinese dialects	http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/lang.htm
Global Chinese Language & Culture Centre	http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/CultureEnglish/Englishhome.htm
Chinese Language Information page Language (The ROC yearbook - 2003)	http://www.webcom.com/~bamboo/chinese/chinese.html

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