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50 Skills and Abilities in Chinese | 一步一个脚印
A neat list skill-related vocabulary in Chinese by Carl Gene Fordham. From the introduction of the blog post: Lately I’ve noticed that Chinese has many words to describe skills and abilities ... Read more.
carlgene.com
Olle Linge – about 10 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
Outlier Linguistic Solutions (blog about etymology and characters)
Outlier Linguistics hosts an excellent blog with a large number of insightful articles into Chinese characters. Some of them are directly useful because they talk about learning characters, others ... Read more.
outlier-linguistics.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
40 Terms Commonly Used in Chinese Academic Writing (一步一个脚印)
This is an excellent list of useful terms for writing academic texts in Chinese, compiled by Carl Gene Fordham. Best of all, it comes with examples, which is essential for using these words correct... Read more.
carlgene.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
電腦名詞譯名 (English-Chinese computer terms)
This is a VERY comprehensive list of computer related terms in Chinese which works well for translation or detailed look-ups rather than studying. The list is mainly in traditional characters (the ... Read more.
iicm.org.tw
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Pandaist (graded reader app)
Pandaist is a graded reader app with several hundred articles, including both news articles as well as fictional stories. Every article includes sentence translations, grammar rules and a popup cha... Read more.
pandaist.com
Olle Linge – almost 2 years
华老师信箱 (Chinese language Q&A from 华文教育网)
This is a Q&A page where teachers answer questions about Mandarin, mainly vocabulary use and grammar, but sometimes other questions as well. It's mostly useful because of the wealth of information ... Read more.
hwjyw.com
Olle Linge – over 8 years
Those Chinese characters that are really easy to get mixed up (Fluent in Mandarin)
This is blog post listing easily confused characters. It's very helpful to see these next to each other since they are hard to keep separate if you only see them one by one. The selection is based ... Read more.
fluentinmandarin.com
Olle Linge – over 8 years
PolyglotGamedev (Gaming vocabulary)
This is a very, very large document with thousands of translated gaming terms in 25 languages, including both simplified and traditional Chinese. It can be useful for learners who want to brush the... Read more.
docs.google.com
Olle Linge – almost 9 years
Bigram frequencies and mutual information in Modern Chinese (Chinese Text Computing)
This tool gives you the most common bigrams found in news language or general fiction (choose which one). Note that a bigram isn't necessarily a word. For instance, 一个 isn't a word, but it's a very... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Foreigncy (Reading and vocabulary practice for advanced learners)
Foreigncy provides daily digital flashcards, with audio, that prepare a user to read a foreign policy or economics from a regional source. The site also provide users with an English language summa... Read more.
foreigncy.org
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
New HSK Vocabulary Lists (Audio Examples)
The audio-based New HSK vocabulary lists contain words of all levels (Band 1 - 9). Each word has a practical example so that you can not only understand the word’s meaning, but also learn its usage... Read more.
hskcourse.com
Sabina – 2 months
Mandarin Friend 中文朋友 (explorations in Chinese grammar and vocabulary)
This blog provides in-depth explanations of some grammar and vocabulary topics in Mandarin Chinese. While there aren't a huge number of articles so far, there are enough to issue a general recommen... Read more.
mandarinfriend.wordpress.com
Olle Linge – about 8 years
Names of the chemical elements in Chinese (Victor Mair, Language Log)
This blog post contains both a list of most of the elements in the periodic table in both Chinese and English, but more importantly, it contains a discussion about the characters used to represent ... Read more.
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Jason D. Patent on "An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics" by Perry Link
This is a review of Perry Link's book about Chinese. This passage sums it up pretty well, and although I haven't read the book (yet), it's high on my list of books to get my hands on: "In writin... Read more.
lareviewofbooks.org
Olle Linge – over 10 years