Here are some links:

Jim Breen's edict page
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html

Erik Peterson's continuation of Paul Denisowski's cedict
http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html

Jouyou Kanji resource
http://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo/main.asp?fl=list&id=1000003929&clc=1000000068

media resources( good source for audio )
http://www.nhk.or.jp/ - Japanese
http://www.rthk.org.hk/ - Mandarin, Cantonese
http://www.rti.org.tw/ - Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, Cantonese
http://www.voa.gov/ - Great resource, media in public domain
http://www.kfm.co.kr/ - Good Korean radio station direct link
http://www.cctv.com/ - Mainland Chinese station
http://www.ctitv.com.tw/ - Taiwan station
http://www.tv5.mn/ - Mongolian station
http://radio.tsahim.tv/ - awesome Mongolian station
http://www.cri.cn/ -Various Languages
http://www.dw-world.de/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.rfa.org/
http://www.rfi.fr/
http://www.rferl.org/
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/ - various languages including tok pisin
http://www.radio.sbs.com.au/

Mandarin audio
http://chinesepod.com/
http://s3.amazonaws.com/chinesepod.com/pinyinchart_mac.zip

script to copy audio files with v to ü
copy_v_to_umlaut.sh

Good intro to chinese dialects( audio files included )
http://www.glossika.com/en/

Interesting chinese dialect site
http://www.pearstories.org/

Arirang TV's "Let's Speak Korean
http://www.arirang.co.kr/Tv/Tv_Pagego.asp?PROG_CODE=TVCR0110

korean hanja deck

Sounds of various languages can be found here
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/handbook.htm

Good intro to taiwanese( audio files available )
http://daiwanway.dynip.com/ this one dead right now
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~konrad/personal/taiwan/taiwan.html
http://tacpa.org/wdcts/conversation/index.html

Media in Taiwanese
閩南通 CCTV.com

good links page
http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/taiwaneselaw/links/language.htm

Vocab lists for taiwanese
http://mail.im.tku.edu.tw/~seke/cgi-bin/mtwromaji.html
http://mail.im.tku.edu.tw/~seke/tsaou/romanize/tw-roma.txt big5 encode
http://mail.im.tku.edu.tw/~seke/tsaou/romanize/tw-voc/

Shanghainese resource
http://www.earnshaw.com/shanghainese/shanghainese.php
Good search query for learning Shanghainese.

good Thai resource
http://www.learningthai.com/

french audio found here( france isn't in east asia, is it? )
http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl-begpronunciation.htm

good learning russian site( russia *is* an east asian nation )
http://www.russianlessons.net/

For those who want more technical info
http://www.dspguide.com/

The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
http://www.fftw.org/

To enable Kanji Crammer to work with ogg files
http://xiph.org/quicktime/

windows media quicktime component
flip4mac

quicktime component for more file types
perian

praat is a great program; check it out
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

some people like wavesurfer: here

For ripping audio streams( read tos )
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/

For command line ripping see
here.( read tos )

Sound files for japanese
http://www.recnet.com/japanese/table.html - dead
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/cover.html

Some other kanji flash card proggies
http://jfcmac.sourceforge.net/
http://www.kung-foo.tv/kotoba/index.php

For English reading beginners
English sight word list
my pronunciation of first 100

Great study tool( put that toy to good use! )
http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html

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