We really want to provide you with a valuable list of resources that can make learning Chinese both easier and enjoyable.  Look below for some helpful links, and if you have any suggestions for links that would help your fellow classmates, please let us know!

	http://depts.washington.edu/global/uwsichuan/  The UW-Sichuan Program is a very special study program in which all the students have different interests and a variety of majors, but share a common interest in environmental and international issues. All of the students gain international experience by spending one academic year at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, taking courses and doing research while earning UW credits.
	http://www.ipe.washington.edu/ This is a link to the International Programs and Exchanges Division at the University of Washington.
	http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/ Learning how to write Chinese characters is one of the keys to communicating in Chinese.  The East Asian Languages Department at USC has put together an excellent group of animated Chinese characters that show you both the stroke order and the radicals of each character (in red).   Go to the website by either clicking the book to the left or the URL above.
	http://depts.washington.edu/llc/ The LLC is located in the basement of Denny Hall, a building with a long and interesting history at the university.  If you want to know how it can help you learn Chinese, or any language for that matter, go to their website and find out what they have and how to get there.
	http://www.mandarintools.com/ On-Line Chinese Tools is a great starting point for a lot things related to Chinese computing and culture.
	http://www.zhongwen.com/ This rich site is filled with materials including clickable characters with pronunciations, etc.  You can get lost in this site so be warned.
	http://www.chinalanguage.com/ If you start getting seriously interested in Chinese take a gander at this site.  It is geared toward the linguist, but non-linguists fear not!
	http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/deall/chan.9/c-links.htm Marjories Chan's China Links is one of the richest resources for Chinese on the web.  You should definitely go here some time and browse around.
	http://courses.washington.edu/chinese2 Visit the Second-Year Chinese webpage here at the UW.  Professor Handel has some very useful information even for beginners.
Chinese 342	http://courses.washington.edu/chin342 If you want to learn quite a bit about the language you are studying, you can check some of the handouts and links from this class.  This is especially interesting for the linguistically-minded.
Learning Chinese Online (no image)	http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm This is a rich resource for all sorts of things related to learning Chinese such as schools, dictionaries, character practice, etc.
	http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~whu/China/linguist.html This interesting site has various resources related to linguistics, phonology, and also has research papers written by senior scholars.
	http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ This is the Virtual Library. Also known as the Internet Guide for China Studies. It takes a bit of time to navigate through the site, but it is worth it.