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Maayot - Bite-size daily Chinese Mandarin stories to your inbox
maayot is a chinese mandarin graded reader to receive on a daily basis a story with rather engaging content. New stories are received directly by email. On click of a character in the story, it ope... Read more.
maayot.com
fluencyyy – almost 4 years
Chinese Breeze: Graded Chinese Readers
A series of graded readers for early stage reading. The levels progress from 300 to 500 to 750 words. The stories contain a lot of repetition to ensure learning but at the same time tell more e... Read more.
chinesebreeze.net
kdgbalmer – about 10 years
Chinese-forums.com
Chinese-forums is the best place to go online if you have questions about Chinese or want to browse through threads where other people (some of them very knowledgeable indeed) discuss Chinese and r... Read more.
chinese-forums.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Chinese Language Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange is a site where people can ask questions to the community and get answers back. These answers are then rated by other people in the community and the most helpful answer can be chose... Read more.
chinese.stackexchange.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Du Chinese (mobile app for Chinese reading practice)
This is a reading app that contains a number of lessons for beginner, intermediate and advanced students. Apart from the reading material, there is also recorded (not synthesised) audio. The app al... Read more.
duchinese.net
Olle Linge – over 8 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 – almost 9 years
Learn Chinese with CSLPOD
CSLPOD offers a large library of audio for all levels and the audio is available for free (you can subscribe for some other services, such as vocabulary explanations, sentence drilling and some exe... Read more.
cslpod.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Pinyin.info
This website contains a wealth of information about characters and romanisation. It's maintained by Mark Swofford. There are many articles about Pinyin as well as a number of useful tools, which I ... Read more.
pinyin.info
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Chinese Etymology
A website on the etymology of Chinese characters, with a lot of images of their past forms from different periods. Read more.
chineseetymology.org
ednorog – almost 10 years
Chinese Language (Reddit)
This is the most active discussion group on Reddit for discussing questions related to the Chinese language. Most posts here are questions about Chinese, so if you already know a bit, you can help ... Read more.
reddit.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Ninchanese | Efficient and enjoyable Chinese learning
Ninchanese is a complete way to learn Chinese. Its online course allows you to learn and practice how to read, write, speak and understand Chinese in an enjoyable manner. It combines game mechanics... Read more.
ninchanese.com
Sarah – about 8 years
Process of creating a Chinese font
Just you try designing 13,000-plus intricate character shapes that all have to balance one another. Read more.
qz.com
stefanwienert – 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
Chinese for Beginners (Coursera & Peking University)
This is a course offered by Peking University and Coursera. It's free to use, but you need to register (you can preview it before you register, though). There are six units, each taking roughly one... Read more.
coursera.org
Olle Linge – 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 Tale of Peter Rabbit 兔子彼得的故事
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, in Chinese and English, with audio. Read more.
nciku.com
Kai Carver – over 9 years
Melnyks Chinese (Podcast / Audio Course)
This website and podcast offer theme-based, progressive online audio lessons. There are transcripts, worksheets, mobile apps, videos and more. Not all of this content is free, but the beginning of ... Read more.
melnyks.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
中文+方言 (Chinese) - WordReference Forums
Word Reference offers several good forums for discussing languages and this is the Chinese section. It's perhaps not as active as Chinese Forums and I don't follow this forum regularly, so I don't... Read more.
forum.wordreference.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Bumpy Chinese / Comprehensible Chinese (YouTube / Podcast)
This is one of the best comprehensible input channels I’ve found so far! That means that she gives you plenty of listening practice without spending five minutes speaking English for every minute o... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 1 year
Chinese Tools - 40 lessons
As the name implies, Chinese Tools is mostly about tools for learners and teachers, but they also have 40 lessons for beginner students of Chinese. This is not reading practice in the sense of most... Read more.
chinese-tools.com
Olle Linge – about 3 years
Langademy (Learn Languages online with native speakers)
Langademy is a language learning social network that connects students with natives from all over the world. Students can practice Chinese, English, French or any other language at Langademy by mak... Read more.
langademy.com
Olle Linge – over 7 years
Chinese Computing Information (input methods, fonts, browsers, coding)
This is a comprehensive introduction to the world of digital Chinese, including the following: Script Basics Activate Keyboards for Typing Browser Recommendations Web Developm... Read more.
sites.psu.edu
Olle Linge – about 9 years
ChineseMe
ChineseMe is the most integrated Mandarin course, designed for motivated learners who have decided to become fluent. It is an interactive textbook that adapts itself to your interests. The course i... Read more.
chinese-me.com
Tim – about 6 years
How to Learn Chinese (free e-book from LTL Mandarin School)
This is a free e-book with a collection of articles about how to learn Chinese, to which I have contributed one chapter about listening ability. This is a good collection overall with contributions... Read more.
livethelanguage.cn
Olle Linge – almost 8 years
The Open Languages Project (learning Chinese character-by-character)
This is a character-by-character beginner course in Chinese, provided free of charge at the Open Languages Project. It teaches you to read (and listen to) Chinese by explaining and introducing one ... Read more.
oplang.org
Olle Linge – over 8 years
Culture Alley Mandarin
This site offers basics, self-paced lessons where you can learn basic vocabulary and grammar (usually with audio as well). There are also Skype lessons and other more interactive parts of the site ... Read more.
culturealley.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years