BearTalk/狗熊有话说 Bear Liu - an iTune Award-winning podcaster, started his BearTalk podcast in 2013. His topics cover culture, travel, technology, and personal growth, but they are only downloadable from iTune, which means they are not free. The language level is intermediate, and students could wait for a while before they explore BearTalk. However, Liu’s website also hosts videos and his blog, which are good recourses for students to explore Chinese culture, people, and society.
https://www.beartalking.com/podcast
MDBG Chinese Online Dictionary - This is a free online Chinese dictionary that students could use to look for new words in Chinese.
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary
Nihao 1&2 你好 - Nihao book 1 and Nihao book 2, our textbooks used in the 1st trimester, will be the primary sources for students to review lesson plans. I strongly recommend students review each lesson in the e-textbooks and e-student workbooks, which are downloadable from the website of the publisher, ChinaSoft.
(https://www.chinasoft.com.au/nihao.html)
Pitch Perfect Pinyin - The website, sponsored by the Chinese Program at the University of Texas at Austin, provides interactive exercises (12 units) with hundreds of pinyin examples for students to keep learning pinyin and review pinyin.
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/ppp/learning.php?unit=0
Tatoeba - Tatoeba uses a web of translators to create examples of sentences for beginning learners. You simply choose the source language and the target language.
YellowBridge Chinese Online Dictionary - We have been using this online dictionary a lot in class. Students have found it very useful, which helps them look for new words, check the stroke order of Chinese characters, and greatly boosts their self-learning ability.
https://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php
Yoyo Chinese: Chinese Taught in Plain English - Students are quite familiar with Yoyo Chinese, as we have used a lot of her free YouTube videos while learning pinyin. Her website provides more information on a variety of lessons and topics that cater to learners of different levels of proficiency in Chinese. I strongly recommend all students subscribe to her YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/sloppycheng).