普通话 Mandarin resources for learning

English-Chinese dictionary:

http://www.wordreference.com/enzh/

Character dictionary:

http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html

Word dictionaries:

http://www.mandarintools.com/cgi-bin/wordlook.pl

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

Other:

wikitravel mandarin phrasebook