“Zhongwen”:http://zhongwen.com is a great site for understanding chinese as it has an online dictionary that includes roots and things. It also has some great resoruces for learning chinese including:
* Learning Chinese Online Page. This is one of many very good site for learning online and has pointers to zillions of other sites.
* “CD Title reviews”:http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm. A good list of titles that you can buy and most important they review their quality.
* “Forum”:http://www.chinese-forums.com/. Pretty cool forum site where folks ask questions.