Chinese-language News sites

•  http://news.baidu.com
•  http://news.google.com.tw
•  http://news.sina.com.cn
•  http://www.dfdaily.com/html/ 150/list_1.shtml
•  http://www.infzm.com/culture. shtml
•  http://mag.udn.com/mag/ reading/index.jsp
•  http://news.chinatimes.com/ list/13.html
• http://www.xinhuanet.com/
• http://www.worldjournal.com
• http://www.voachinese.com/
• http://cn.nytimes.com/
• On-line Chinese tools

   

  • http://www.mandarintools.com/
   
  Chinese Idioms and their stories
  •  http://so.ku6.com/v/q%E4%B8% AD%E5%8D%8E%E6%88%90%E8%AF%AD+ %E6%88%90%E8%AF%AD%E6%95%85% E4%BA%8B
   Text to speech
  • http://www.oddcast.com/home/ demos/tts/tts_example.php? sitepal

  Chinese reading and reference software

  • http://www.clavisinica.com/ home.html

• reading [´ri:diŋ]   n.(阅)读；朗读；读物   (初中英语单词)
• reference [´refərəns]   n.参考；参照；出处   (初中英语单词)