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Here are some fun exercises for practicing Chinese characters or vocabulary words. They are organzied into different groups, and a short descripption is provided for each group.

All exercises are marked with difficulty level, so you would know which one to start with.
Any related page are also linked to enhance your learning experience.

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Chinese Words weblogDecoding Characters(zi) and Words(ci) in Chinese.It's really useful and fun.
Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Level 1
Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Level 2
As a supplement to Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) audio lessons, these provide fun vocabulary match game and flash card practices with Chinese, Pinyin and English translation. Make sure you practice with Pimsleur audio lessons before trying these exercises.
Chinese words by frequency Based on the work doned by
Jun Da 笪骏 (jda@mtsu.edu)
Quizzes are separated by every 50 words on the list.
Essential Vocabulary Essential vocabulary at all levels. (Basic, Beginner, Intermediate, Advance) Vocabularies will be added and deleted at each new version, criteria for adding and deleting will be based on the quiz result.

Each new version will be a slightly harder than previous version, this ensures most essential and relevant words are included at all levels.
Category Vocabulary words by different category, such as sport, music, animal, fruit and etc. You can expand your vocabulary by practicing match game and reviewing flashcards.
Rutgers Multimedia Chinese Teaching System
(RMCTS)
A excellent site for learning Chinese Mandarin.
Check out our step by step approach to learning Mandarin on this website.
The lesson are divided into basic, beginner, intermediate and advance levels.
Everyone can benefit from great Mandarin lessons online.
Chinese Words by Frequency ( Beginner ~ Advanced )
General Fiction
LinkLast Upate
Most frequent words(fiction) 1-50 Oct 09, 2005
Most frequent words(fiction) 51-100 Oct 13, 2005
News
Most frequent words(news) 1-50 Oct 11, 2005
Essential Vocabulary ( All Levels )
LinkDateTotal WordsAddedDeleted
Essential Vocabulary ( Basic, Version 1 ) Oct 09, 200583nonenone
Essential Vocabulary ( Basic, Version 2 ) Oct 14, 2005883530

Please ignore the message about installing lastest java, since some Chinese characters may not display with java installed.

Vocabulary by Category ( Intermediate ~ Advanced )
Action Verbs Antonyms Mammals
People, Relationship and Family Vegetable and Fruit
RMCTS ( All Levels )
Basic ( Related conversation )
Lesson 1,2,3 Lesson 4,5 Lesson 6
Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9
Lesson 10 Lesson 11 Lesson 12
Lesson 13 Lesson 14 Lesson 15