Even though skitter is THE core of my study aids i like to combine it with some other resources to get the most out of my study time. It is all about context, context and context. Here are some resources that I have found to be very helpful in conjunction with skritter. Lets start with the lovely skritter bookmarklet

http://www.skritter.com/vocab

Very convenient way to add new words to your study list. Since I need to look up the meaning of new words before I add them I use the Zhongwen plugin to Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde

Now I need some texts to read and that i can get here for example:

http://www.tom61.com/

It is a Chinese site for children but it do have a lot of stories, songs, films, games,education etc. A fun way of learning Chinese if you use the other mentioned tools. Other sources for shorter Chinese texts is e.g. this one:

http://www.uiowa.edu/~chnsrdng/Chinese_reading/Intermediate/intermediate.html

texts sorted by level. Or this one:

http://www.pthxx.com/01ld/index.htm

You can't study without some Chinese music and the biggest site for that is

http://mp3.baidu.com/

We need some fun as well so Chinese comics made by an western/Chinese family might be something

http://www.mandmx.com/2008/09/07/ping-pong-in-china/

Or this one that explains my family situation

http://www.mandmx.com/2008/08/31/east-west-cooperation/

And yes, for all listening I am a big fan of

http://chinesepod.com

I take most of my words from their lists. They also have a very large database with example usage so for words i study in skritter i usually look them up in Chinesepod to get the word in many different contexts. I have also started to use their example sentences in skritter since they are usually very good.

For references we always have the natural ones:

http://zhongwen.com/

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-dictionary.php

http://www.nciku.com/

Those are some of my current favorites, please add yours.

www.popupchinese.com - for a bit of listening that has a very different flavour to Chinesepod.

www.jukuu.com/ - for example sentences

www.engkoo.com - for more example sentences

Not sure what's up with popup Chinese these days. It's been weeks since the last intermediary. They seem to go to extremely lengths to engineer circumstances with the least amount of useful language as possible.

Shame, I used to love them.

thanks for "tom61", I hadn't been there before.

Have you tried
http://kid.chinese.cn/en/article/2009-09/25/content_68533.htm

It is great for children.

Rachael.