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Pleco Software - Learn Chinese with dictionaries for iPhone, iPad and Android
Pleco is one of the most popular mobile dictionaries for Chinese learners. It basically removes the need for any kind of paper dictionary and allows easy look-up for words using English, hand-writi... Read more.
pleco.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
HanziCraft - The Ultimate Chinese Character Dictionary
HanziCraft is a web application that takes you into the depths of Chinese characters. It aims to provide information on Chinese characters in a easy clean format with awesome useful information. It... Read more.
hanzicraft.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Mandarin Companion (Chinese graded readers)
Mandarin Companion offers a series of graded readers for learners of Chinese. I haven't read all of them yet, but the two I have read have both been great. Considering that they use a very limited ... Read more.
mandarincompanion.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
锵锵三人行
锵锵三人行 is my favourite TV program. It’s also one of the best ones for language learners, mostly because of its focus on talking, availability of transcripts and variety of both guests and topics. Th... Read more.
phtv.ifeng.com
Zoe – over 10 years
Zhongwen: A Chinese-English Popup Dictionary for Chrome
This is a tool that adds a pop-up dictionary to Chrome. I haven't compared it with [Pera Pera](http://resources.hackingchinese.com/s/sltbee/perapera_language_tools_popup_browser_dictionary) in deta... Read more.
chrome.google.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Chinese Text Sampler: Readings in Chinese Literature, History, and Popular Culture
A carefully chosen selection of 80 significant Chinese texts for students wishing to develop their reading skills while improving their cultural literacy. Includes classical and modern Chinese lit... Read more.
www-personal.umich.edu
mikelove – about 10 years
WaiChinese
Listen to native speakers, mimic the audio while recording, receive instant feedback on spoken phases. Then submit your recording to be evaluated by real native teachers. Read more.
waichinese.com
电猫 – over 9 years
Frill - The Chinese pop-up dictionary for Safari
Frill is a Chinese to English pop-up dictionary extension for Safari. Similar to Perapera for Firefox or Zhongwen for Chrome, its dictionary has over 100,000 words. Read more.
frill.miknight.com
hanpingchinese – about 10 years
Hanping Chinese - Powerful Offline OCR & Dictionary apps for Android
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro and Hanping Chinese Camera are the two highest rated Android apps on Google's Play Store. The dictionary (both free and paid editions available) gives you the ability... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – about 10 years
Wenlin Institute: Software for Learning Chinese
Wenlin software makes learning Chinese easier and more interesting, for begining students, life-long speakers, and scholars alike. It combines a comprehensive Chinese dictionary, a Unicode text edi... Read more.
wenlin.com
mikelove – about 10 years
shiny Chinese – Original Chinese content.
Learning Chinese with real content. An ever growing collection of curated Chinese content. Read more.
shinychinese.com
malaoshi – about 10 years
Viooz (free streaming of movies in Mandarin with subtitles)
What funner way to practice listening than watch a good movie? Ok, I can think of a few, but admit it's right there towards the top of the list. This link has a wide range of movies, from Chinese c... Read more.
viooz.ac
Julien Leyre – about 10 years
Perapera Language Tools (Popup browser dictionary)
This is probably one of the most useful plugins for both Firefox and Chrome to learn Chinese. Perapera offers an excellent popup dictionary which allows you to take on texts that would have been im... Read more.
perapera.org
Olle Linge – over 10 years
MDBG English to Chinese dictionary
One of the most convenient dictionaries online. This is my default dictionary in the CE category. It has a clean interface, is easy to use, has handwriting recognition, stroke order and sound. Some... Read more.
mdbg.net
Olle Linge – over 10 years
有道 (Youdao.com)
This is by far the best online Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary I know. Not only does it have much more words than most other dictionaries, it also has bilingual sentences in large numbers, givin... Read more.
youdao.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Toward Better Tones in Natural Speech
This article describes the basics of way to teach tones that is different from the traditional way mainly in that the third tone is no longer described as a falling-rising tone (since that is rarel... Read more.
sinosplice.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Zizzle (app for learning Chinese characters)
Zizzle is an app that turns Chinese characters into engaging pictures and memorable short stories with funny heroes. For every single Chinese character, Zizzle creates a mnemonic story that employs... Read more.
zizzle.io
Olle Linge – over 7 years
Language learning through Video (FluentU)
FluentU offers authentic as well as learner-oriented videos for learning Chinese. A neat interface allows you to use an excellent pop-up dictionary and other useful features to watch and learn from... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
lazylink – about 9 years
Tatoeba - Collecting example sentences
Tatoeba offers sentences in many languages (you can choose yourself which languages to search for). This is excellent if you want to find your own example sentences for your Chinese vocabulary or i... Read more.
tatoeba.org
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Pleco Chinese Dictionary for iOS
Chinese dictionary for iOS with handwriting, OCR, flashcards, audio, document reader (including support for reading words on web pages and in PDF / EPUB documents), stroke order, and more than 20 a... Read more.
itunes.apple.com
mikelove – about 10 years
Linqapp
Linqapp is the app for language learners. No matter what question you have on your mind - Linqapp connects you with native speakers who assist you on the spot - no matter where you are. It's just l... Read more.
linqapp.com
Sebastian – about 10 years
好讀 (E-books in traditional Chinese)
This site contains a huge amount of e-books in traditional Chinese. My guess is that downloading and reading them without having the original text might be illegal, but even so, it's often great to... Read more.
haodoo.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Chineasy? Not (About what's wrong with Hsueh ShaoLan's Chineasy)
In this blog post, Victor Mair explains what's wrong withe Hsueh ShaoLan's claims that learning to read and write Chinese is easy. That this is wrong should be pretty easy, but few can say it with ... Read more.
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
Olle Linge – about 10 years
nciku - Online English Chinese Dictionary, Learn Chinese Mandarin Online
Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary with Chinese handwriting recognition, pinyin translation, audio pronunciation, personalized vocab lists, picture theme words and useful Chinese conver... Read more.
nciku.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Easing yourself into reading novels in Chinese
Reading a novel in Chinese is the goal for many learners, but perhaps it's easier to accomplish than you think. This article discusses various methods of making novel reading easier in Chinese, ma... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Chinese character stroke order rules (Understanding Chinese Characters on YouTube)
This is a basic video demonstration of the stroke order rules for writing Chinese characters. It's short and if you find something lacking, your question may have already been answered in the comme... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
意见中国 经济学家访谈录 网易财经 (Economics interviews and discussions with transcripts)
This site offers a large number of in-depth interviews and discussion about economics. Each episode is around 20 minutes and there are currently 151 episodes available. Excellent for anyone with an... Read more.
money.163.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
开卷八分钟 (8-minute introductions to books in Chinese)
This program provides 8-minute introductions of various books. The fact that each program is so short makes it very easy to listen to and it's also a good way of learning more about Chinese literat... Read more.
phtv.ifeng.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Hanping Cantonese Dictionary
Offline Cantonese dictionary app for Android. Supports both Traditional and Simplified characters as well as Jyutping and Yale pronunciation. Handwriting recognition, syllable-by-syllable native... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – almost 10 years
MandarinMadeEZ | Mandarin Chinese Video Lessons With Fiona Tian
Mandarin Chinese With Fiona Tian is a free video resource for learning Mandarin Chinese in a fun, enjoyable way. Chinese doesn't have to be hard. Kick back, relax, and enjoy. Read more.
mandarinmadeez.com
Gwilym – almost 10 years
Pleco Chinese Dictionary for Android (Google Play version)
Chinese dictionary for Android with handwriting, OCR, flashcards, audio, document reader, stroke order, and more than 20 available dictionary databases. Read more.
play.google.com
mikelove – about 10 years
How and why to use television to learn Chinese
Television is a valuable asset in the modern language learners toolkit. The medium provides a convenient way to enjoy large volumes of passive listening practice in a stress free environment. The c... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
PPS TV Player
PPS.tv is an online source of Chinese TV episodes and films. Great for finding input content to improve comprehension and listening ability. Nearly all of the Chinese shows have Chinese subs as ... Read more.
pps.tv
kdgbalmer – over 10 years
6 Awesome Chinese Podcasts You've Never Heard Of (FluentU)
This post on FluentU discusses briefly what to look for in a podcast and then follows up with six recommended podcasts. Some of them were actually new to me and I don't know if the recommended leve... Read more.
fluentu.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Chinese Dictionary - YellowBridge
Talking Chinese dictionary with sample sentences, handwriting recognition, fuzzy pinyin matches, word decomposition, animated stroke order, character etymology, etc. Read more.
yellowbridge.com
Tom – over 10 years
汉典 zdic.net
This is my favourite free online Chinese-Chinese dictionary. it offers a lot of words with detailed explanations, along with examples. I use it for all kinds of Chinese-Chinese look-ups, especially... Read more.
zdic.net
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Zhongwen.com - Chinese characters and culture
I first used this dictionary during my first semester of Chinese and I have kept using it ever since. It has pretty good information about character etymology and provides more accurate information... Read more.
zhongwen.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
A language learner’s guide to wuxia novels
Wuxia can be used as a key to both Chinese language and culture. This article is meant to be a guide to second language learners. If you want to read wuxia in Chinese, where do you start? How do yo... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Readibu (app for reading web novels)
Readibu is an app that allows you to find and read novels on your phone (iOS and Android). They don’t create the content themselves, but rather connect with various online sites that offer stories ... Read more.
readibu.com
Olle Linge – about 3 years
Graded Watching for advanced Chinese learners (vocabulary lists and difficulty rating for TV shows and movies)
"Graded Watching makes watching TV series more approachable for Chinese learners by offering a list of Chinese TV shows on Netflix and Youtube sorted by difficulty, along with a vocabulary list for... Read more.
jiong3.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
听故事,学中文Learning Chinese through Stories - 主页 Home
A podcast collection of Chinese short stories with explanations in Chinese graded to 7 levels. Transcript. Vocabulary list. Free. The explanations are very clear and use repetition and synonyms s... Read more.
learningchinesethroughstories.com
Liz H – about 6 years
Duolingo: Learn Spanish, French and other languages for free
Finally, Duolingo added a En->ZH course. As Duolingo is the most popular gamification learning app, the learning experience is relatively streamlined and tested. The monetarization aspect leads to ... Read more.
en.duolingo.com
stefanwienert – over 6 years
Hacking Chinese: A Practical Guide to Learning Mandarin (video/Audio/Text course)
Through video, text and audio, this course helps you become a better language learner. It also explains many Chinese-specific learning strategies necessary to avoid wasting lots of time or missing ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 8 years
CC-Canto - Open-source online Cantonese-English dictionary (Pleco)
Website for Pleco's new free, open-source Cantonese-English dictionary CC-Canto, with 20,000 dedicated Cantonese-English entries plus another 110,000 entries from CC-CEDICT to which we've added hum... Read more.
cantonese.org
mikelove – over 8 years
Chinese Podcasts (collection of reviews and links)
Exploring and reviewing all the Chinese podcasts available; learn Chinese podcasts, Chinese language podcasts, English podcasts about China. The aim of this site is to explore the Chinese podcasts ... Read more.
chinesepodcasts.com
Olle Linge – almost 9 years
Hanping Chinese Popup
The ultimate solution for quickly looking up Chinese words on your smartphone or tablet, no matter what app (or system screens) you are using. Note: For Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher. Whe... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – almost 9 years
Culturelab (watch Chinese film, TV and music with subtitles and a pop-up dictionary)
This is a new site that offers Chinese television, film and music videos with the subtitles and a pop-up dictionary. This lowers the barrier for anyone who wants to approach real Chinese. The site ... Read more.
culturelab.cc
Olle Linge – about 9 years
The Grand First Episode Project (about Chinese TV on Chinese Forums)
This is a great thread on Chinese Forums where the participants watch the first episode of a Chinese TV show twice a week. The first post contains a long list of different shows with links to where... Read more.
chinese-forums.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Anki deck: 小城之春 (Spring in a Small Town) - Full Chinese movie
Anki is spaced repetition software. You can create cards and review them, Anki takes care of the rest. This is an Anki video deck containing each sentence from the movie 小城之春. Each card has one ... Read more.
ankiweb.net
Matthias – over 9 years
MandarinBanana: Remembering Chinese Characters by Drawing Like a Four-Year-Old
This website serves the purpose to create memorable mnemonics for simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Users can create mnemonics, and add images to the mnemonics using a paint-like front... Read more.
mandarinbanana.com
Matthias – over 9 years
Introduction to Chinese Characters (Video by ABCsof Chinese)
This is a neat video that introduces Chinese characters to complete beginners. It's not a substitute for a real lecture on how characters work, but this is still the best introduction I have seen s... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Taiwanese Mandarin (Wikipedia)
This article is an excellent start for anyone who wants to know more about the Mandarin spoken in Taiwan. In general, it's very similar to the Chinese spoken on the Mainland and most Taiwanese peop... Read more.
en.wikipedia.org
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
56听书网 (online audiobook streaming)
This website offers a very large number of audio books in Chinese, directly available for streaming (no registration or log in necessary). If you don’t want to listen online, try finding a plugin t... Read more.
ting56.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
爱词霸Iciba.com
Online Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary, with definitions, audio pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, related words and expressions, and numerous example sentences. Also provides Engl... Read more.
iciba.com
Kai Carver – almost 10 years