Chinese

Several months ago, I purchased the book Tales and Traditions, Volume One. It contains twenty-some stories about Chinese proverbs, historical figures, and myths.

This website from the University of Maryland's National Foreign Language Center offers some pretty neat brief online supplementary readings and multimedia resources (my personal favorite: "a s

This is a very simple but very nice little website: http://www.oneaday.org/

You can use this free downloadable dictionary program, CoJaK, created by Tal Liron, to look up words in Chinese, Japanese, and/or Korean.

ChinesePod offers podcasts and other study materials for learning Chinese.

Just about everything you might need to know about Chinese language input on a Macintosh can be found at this excellent resource site built by Eric Rasmussen.

Do you think it's better to learn simplified characters first, or traditional characters first? Is it easier to learn simplified characters if you already know traditional characters?