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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
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
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
中文阅读天地 (University of Iowa)
This site contains a huge number of lessons, complete with texts, vocabulary, audio, exercises and much more. And it's all free. Note that if you want to get the intermediate and advanced material,... Read more.
collections.uiowa.edu
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 – over 9 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
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
Chinese Text Annotation (MandarinSpot)
This tool adds inline and pop-up annotations with pronunciation in Pinyin or Zhuyin and English definitions to Chinese text or web pages. It's incredibly useful if you have Chinese text and want to... Read more.
mandarinspot.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Learning with Texts (online version)
An online tool for reading texts in foreign languages and saving & reviewing new words and expressions. It can also be downloaded at http://lwt.sourceforge.net/ but it requires more than average co... Read more.
lwtfi3m.co
ednorog – almost 10 years
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro - Android app on Google Play
Pro version gives you: ★ Chinese handwriting recognition built in* ★ Mandarin audio - over 2,000 audio files of a real native Chinese speaker ★ Homescreen Widgets - flip through your favorite wo... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – about 10 years
A learner’s guide to TV shows in Chinese, part 1 (Hacking Chinese)
After having talked about how and why to use television to learn Chinese, it's time to look at actual genres and programmes and see how these can help a language learner improve his or her skills. ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
TOFU Learn
TOFU Learn is an SRS flashcard application that works on the web and on mobile. They support most languages, but have specialised in Chinese. They are often quick to fix issues when their users rep... Read more.
tofulearn.com
Foxears – about 6 years
國語一字多音審訂表 (List of variant character pronunciations, Taiwan standard)
This is a very large list of traditional characters with multiple pronunciations in the form of an Excel file (the other two files are announcements about the list in Chinese). The first sheet just... Read more.
word.hlc.edu.tw
Olle Linge – over 8 years
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite - Android App on Google Play
This is the free edition of Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro which has over 10,000 downloads and comes with a 30-day full refund guarantee. Lite features: ★ Offline access to all features (unless... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – about 10 years
Mnemonics for Pronouncing Chinese Characters
Serge Gorodish describes himself as "Mathematician, father, programmer, amateur linguist, cynic/idealist, and all-around nice guy" and has found a way to split pinyin syllables in components, which... Read more.
countryoftheblind.blogspot.de
Matthias – over 10 years
Tone Colors and What Pleco Did with Them (Laowai Chinese 老外中文)
This blog-post offers an introduction to the concept of coloured tones in Chinese learning software. Where do the colours come from? Why were they chosen? And what colours should you choose for you... Read more.
laowaichinese.net
Olle Linge – over 10 years
A Cat That Barks (About looking Chinese without knowing the language)
This is a story about looking Chinese but not knowing how to speak Chinese. It's an eye-opener for people who don't look Chinese and study Chinese, but it might also be painfully familiar for stude... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass - Master the Art of Learning Chinese Characters
Mastering Chinese characters, whether you find them enchantingly beautiful or overwhelmingly complex, is essential for literacy in Chinese. Outlier Linguistics will help you understand how the Chin... Read more.
outlier-linguistics.com
Olle Linge – 4 months
A Chinese Typewriter in Silicon Valley: What 150 Years of Chinese Information Technology Can Teach the Alphabetic World
This is a presentation by Thomas S. Mullaney about Chinese typewriters through history. In the digital age, typing in Chinese is easier than it has ever been, but how did the Chinese typewrite evol... Read more.
youtu.be
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
Mandarin Syllable Frequency Counts for Chinese Characters
This list contains syllable frequency, listing each syllable, with Pinyin and Zhuyin, as well as a sample character. It’s not sorted in order of frequency, but the frequency data is there. Also, pl... Read more.
technology.chtsai.org
Olle Linge – about 5 years
Clozemaster
Clozemaster is language learning gamification through mass exposure to vocabulary in context. Great post-Duolingo app and useful for language learners of all levels. Free to sign up and play! Ch... Read more.
clozemaster.com
Foxears – about 6 years
普通话异读词审音表 (List of variant character pronunciations, mainland standard)
This page lists variant pronunciations and their standard readings in Mandarin Chinese (Mainland Standard). It does not list characters that have different readings based on different meanings, so ... Read more.
baike.baidu.com
Olle Linge – over 8 years
Chinese Tutor - Flashcards, Dictionary, Speaking Practice
Online Chinese flashcards that adapt to your learning, Chinese speaking practice using voice recognition, and a simple, fast Chinese-English dictionary. Read more.
fastchinese.org
ChineseTutor – almost 10 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