For "students who have some basic conversational skills gained, typically, from growing up in a Chinese speaking environment, but lack a corresponding level of literacy. " From MIT.

For "students who, when they began the sequence at beginning level, had basic conversational skills (gained, typically, from growing up in a Chinese speaking environment), but lacked a corresponding level of literacy." From MIT.

For "students who, when they began the sequence at beginning level, had basic conversational skills (gained, typically, from growing up in a Chinese speaking environment), but lacked a corresponding level of literacy.: From MIT.

"This is a free online course offered by Open University through 46 podcasts."

The course "aims to help beginners develop communicative competence in the basic four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and culture of Chinese." From Open Learning Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University. $25.

Videos, games, exercises, and more. Note: The page "has been archived and is no longer updated," but as of 6/1/17, it works.

"This site offers a collection of free interactive language learning resources for beginning Mandarin Chinese. Students now have the option to practice pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, listening, and reading skills at their own convenience." From U of Texas, Austin.

This "computer based multimedia curriculum" provides "students with a substantial amount of practice in reading and listening, and comprehensive drills in grammar and vocabulary."

Among many examples are: instructions for adding Pinyin to web pages and files, a romanization converter, animations for learning to draw Chinese characters, an encoding converter, and several dictionaries.

"The tracks presented here are designed to give you a taste of Mandarin Chinese language and culture." By The Open University.