• Leiden Weibo Corpus – The Leiden Weibo Corpus, which consists of 5,103,566 messages posted on Sina Weibo in January 2012.
• AllSet Learning Pinyin for the iPad – The AllSet Learning Pinyin chart for the iPad makes pinyin study easy and enjoyable. The interface is simple, clean, and ad-free. Every pinyin syllable has audio (just tap on a syllable to hear a native speaker recording), and toggling between the four different tones of Mandarin Chinese is easy.
• Introducing HanziJS – Chinese characters consist of radicals, which are the fundamental building blocks of each character. However, until now there was no way to automatically dissect them without consulting dictionaries, random websites and other untrustworthy sources.
• ‘Beijing Beijing’ by Wang Feng – Music video with lyrics in Chinese, Pinyin and English
• Chinese Learner Interview Series: Kellen Parker – Kellen is a published linguist with a background in linguistics and philosophy. He spent time wrestling with languages like Albanian and Arabic before coming to China and re-focusing his efforts on Mandarin.

Once upon a time there was a mole who was surrounded by a pack of wolves, but with the help of some mice he managed to escape. The wolves were furious. The mole’s older and younger brothers, his mother and his baby still lived in the burrow. They became the hostages of the wolves. The escaped mole hid in the forest and called out to the lion, but the lion could not hear his fragile voice. The mice in the walls and the mice in the field all passed along the welcome news, but they couldn’t decide whether the [mole's] escape was a victory, or whether it was just the beginning of more hardship.

– Zhu Dake (translation)

【鼹鼠的故事】从前有只鼹鼠被狼群围着，却在老鼠帮助下逃走了。狼们很生气。窝里还有鼹鼠哥哥，鼹鼠弟弟，鼹鼠妈妈和鼹鼠宝宝。它们成了狼的人质。逃走的鼹鼠躲在森林里向狮子喊话，但狮子听不见这微弱的声音。家鼠和田鼠们互相传播着喜讯，但它们也弄不清，逃亡究竟是胜利，还是另一轮苦难的开始。

– 朱大可 (original)