By the way, two nice Chinese dictionaries:

• http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/dictionary.html (with audio + examples + calligraphy)
• http://www.chinese-dictionary.org (multilingual, chinese vs english, french, spanish...)

"Trying to learn Chinese from a Chinese/Chinese dictionary". I first tried to learn Chinese from Children book. I learned "thatched cottage" before "house"... funny when speaking with my Chinese friends.