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Focusing on tone pairs to improve your Mandarin pronunciation
When learning to pronounce tones in Chinese, it makes sense to focus on words rather than single syllables. Most words in Chinese are disyllabic and since practising these will also include to tone... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Jun Da: Chinese text computing
This site by Jun Da contains a lot of very interesting resources for anyone who wants dig deeper into frequency lists. One set of data I haven't found anywhere else is a frequency list of syllables... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
Olle Linge – 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
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
Phonetic components, part 2: Hacking Chinese characters
This is the second and final article about using phonetic components to hack Chinese characters and make it considerably easier to handle similarly looking characters. This article describes both t... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Chinese Learn Online (CLO)
Learn Chinese Online with CLO - Go from absolute beginner to intermediate learner with our step by step, progressive audio lessons in Mandarin Chinese Read more.
ChineseLearnOnline.com
Adam_CLO – almost 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
Phonetic components, part 1: The key to 80% of all Chinese characters
80% of all Chinese characters are made up of one semantic component (meaning) and one phonetic component (pronunciation). The sheer number of characters formed this way means that these characters ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Learning how to fish: Or, why it’s essential to know how to learn
Good pronunciation matters, whether you like it or not. In general, students (and teachers) tend to stop caring about pronunciation much earlier than they should. You don't need to aim for native-l... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 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
Spaced repetition - Efficient memorization & what it's good for (Gwern.net)
This is the best overview of spaced repetition research I have seen online or offline. It's thorough, well-argued and probably covers more than you were looking for. It's not specifically about Chi... Read more.
gwern.net
Olle Linge – over 8 years
A guide to Pinyin traps and pitfalls (Hacking Chinese)
My article about various common problems students have with Pinyin. These problems mostly exist because people read Pinyin as if it were a phonetic alphabet instead of a transcription system. Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Studying Chinese when your grades matter (Hacking Chinese)
Ideally, we would study Chinese just because we want to and in any manner we see fit, but this isn't how it works for most students. Instead, we need to care about tests and grades, an extra layer ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Mandarin Chinese Phonetics (Zein.se)
This is a simple and straightforward explanation of Chinese phonetics. I recommend it because it's not very complicated and (mostly) correct. I will try to write something myself later, but in the ... Read more.
zein.se
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
How to find out how good your Chinese pronunciation really is
Evaluating pronunciation needn't be hard, but many methods commonly used by teachers are deeply flawed, resulting in inaccurate error analysis. If we want to improve, we need to be clear about what... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
John Pasden's complete tips on Chinese pronunciation (Sinosplice)
John Pasden has over ten years of experience teaching Chinese language, and a particular awareness of phonetic difficulties. This page gathers a number of posts on his website sinosplice about pron... Read more.
sinosplice.com
Julien Leyre – about 10 years
TutorMandarin: Online Mandarin Tutor
TutorMandarin is an online Chinese tutoring software and service. Students take 1-on-1 classes with professional Mandarin tutors on PC, Android, or iOS. Full courses from Beginner to Advanced, Spok... Read more.
tutormandarin.net
hanpingchinese – over 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
Chinese Pronunciation Wiki (AllSet Learning)
This newly launched site offers basic information about pronunciation, mostly things that should be in all beginner courses and textbooks but seldom are. Currently, the content is fairly limited, b... Read more.
resources.allsetlearning.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
The Phonology of Standard Chinese by Duanmu San (Review on Hacking Chinese)
Duanmu San's "The Phonology of Standard Chinese" is by far the best introduction to Mandarin phonology that I'm aware of. It's mostly useful for people who like phonology or are already at an advan... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 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 – about 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 – about 10 years
Habit hacking for language learners
Forming language learning habits is a key ingredient in any successful recipe for mastering Chinese. This makes sure that we learn regularly and that it becomes a natural part of our lives, rather ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Seeing Speech (articulation visualised through MRI and UTI scans)
This is a unique resource that shows how most common speech sounds are actually produced. Most other resources use animations and diagrams, but this is the frist I see which show actual MRI scans. ... Read more.
seeingspeech.ac.uk
Olle Linge – over 1 year
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 – almost 5 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
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
ChineseSkill (game-based, task-driven app)
From their website: Features: - a game-based and structured curriculum optimized for English-speaking beginners; - compartmentalized contents designed for studying in fragmented times; - an... Read more.
chinese-skill.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years