Links
The following are links to all of the optional material mentioned under each of the sections. Explore!
(A caveat: There is a lot of great material online about Chinese, and we have tried to share the best of it with you here; there is also a lot of material that is not quite accurate. As a result, while we encourage you to explore, be aware that unless you have a good reason to believe that the information is accurate, you should question it and verify through other sites and sources. Despite our best efforts to ensure that the links provided in this course contain only the best information, we cannot guarantee that all of the information on these sites is 100% accurate. If you find any bad information, or any links that do not work, please email the instructor.)

Introduction
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1000bce_language.htm
http://chineseflagship.asu.edu/content/what-chinese

Pinyin
http://web.mit.edu/%7Ejinzhang/www/pinyin/
http://www.activechinese.com/school/pinyin.jsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin_table
http://www.quickmandarin.com/chinesepinyintable/
http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese/anexe-pinyin.html
http://pinyin.info/rules/index.html
http://pinyin.info/index.html
http://pinyinpractice.com/initials.htm
http://pinyinpractice.com/finals.htm
http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Pinyin.htm
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epinyin/
http://www.uvm.edu/%7Echinese/pinyin.htm

Recommended Software
The following program will put a pinyin table, complete with pronunciations, on your computer.
http://www.chinesehour.com/tools/pinyin_chart/
http://chinesepod.com/tools/pronunciation
iPad http://pinyintutor.com/

Tones
http://web.mit.edu/jinzhang/www/pinyin/tones/index.html

http://shufawes.ipower.com/language/tonedrill.html
http://www.chineseliteracy.net/summer/cssystem_062908.swf
http://pinyinpractice.com/tones.htm

Characters
http://faculty.virginia.edu/cll/chinese/introduction.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Script/script.html

http://xuehanyu.wikispaces.com/Radicals
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/sobelman/radicals/
http://www.archchinese.com/arch_chinese_radicals.html
http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-writing/strokes.htm
http://www.csulb.edu/%7Etxie/azi/page1.htm
http://zhongwen.com/shufa/index.html
http://www.language.berkeley.edu/fanjian/tier3.html
http://xuehanyu.wikispaces.com/Strokes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_(CJK_character)
http://mandarin.about.com/od/characters/a/The-Importance-Of-Strokes-In-Chinese-Characters.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_order
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jiliao/menu.html
www.internationalscientific.org
http://www.chineselearner.com/writing/characters/structures2.html

Language Structure
http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/east_asian_languages.html
http://cjvlang.com/Writing/writchin/ciandzi.html