你好朋友! This group is for anyone who is interested in Chinese, also known as 中文 or zhōngwén. This group includes people who are learning written or spoken Chinese, and people who are already fluent. It's an open group; anyone can join. We are aiming for 1000 members^^
Off-Site 中文 Learning Links

Best online forum about learning Chinese
http://www.chinese-forums.com/

Mouseover popup Chinese dictionary tools:
Install one of these if you don't know the characters.
http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349

How to type Chinese characters: (it's easy)
http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=20102
Software for typing pīnyīn:
http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=13005
(This lets you type tone marks like mā má mǎ mà)

Firefox extension to convert web pages between simplified/traditional:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4559
Install that then goto "View->Toolbars->Customize..." and drag the buttons into your toolbar.

Fancy Chinese fonts
http://www.chinese-tools.com/resources/free-chinese-fonts.html
(You may have trouble with some of them.)

Character Etymology
http://zhongwen.com/