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Simple Mandarin can be learned phonetically in English, and the Chinese characters are also given at the end. It seems quite simple, and put together in a way that's easy to understand.

"Study More Chinese is a social network for everyone learning Mandarin - music, videos, blogs & discussion community"

There are free, interactive online Cantonese lessons, Mandarin lessons, and Chinese character lessons. There are also comments on Chinese culture, and links to other Chinese resources.

Online courses in critical languages available for students for individual study ($79 for 6-month subscription) or to schools as course supplement. Includes Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Kurdish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Site also offers opportunity for free access if volunteering as beta tester for new courses.

"CantoFish is a popup Cantonese dictionary for Firefox. It contains over 200,000 entries and works with both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. Both the Yale and Jyutping romanization systems are supported, as well as Mandarin pinyin."

Has handwriting recognition for look-up, plus user log-ins/lists, conversations, forums and video notes.