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Influent
This is a language learning game that features among other languages Mandarin Chinese (at first only Japanese was supported). It aims to teach you about 400 words by having a virtual character walk... Read more.
playinfluent.com
Sebastian Rasmussen – over 9 years
Tasty Mantou Chinese (Online dictionary)
This dictionary is new and looks promising. It provides easy look-up for characters and words (both simplified and traditional) along with sample sentences with audio. You can also write characters... Read more.
tastymantou.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Talkify (online text-to-speech, including Mandarin)
This is an excellent tool that provides free text-to-speech (TTS) for inserted addresses, meaning that you can listen to news articles or blog posts while reading them. You could also rip the audio... Read more.
talkify.net
Olle Linge – over 9 years
凤凰FM - 中国第一音频平台!(app for streaming of programs, audio books etc.)
This app, which is available for free both on Android and iOS allows you to access tons of programs and audiobooks for free. Some of them aren't free, but it's clearly written which are, so you don... Read more.
diantai.ifeng.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Global Language Online Support System (with Chinese lessons)
This page offers several hundred lessons for Chinese about different topics, including both reading practice and listening. They also have some learning activities, including quizzes. I have tried ... Read more.
gloss.dliflc.edu
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Peggy Teaches Chinese (Videos, Lessons, Tutoring)
Peggy Teaches Chinese offers a wide variety of videos about learning Chinese (there are currently more than a hundred on YouTube) and they are all free. Peggy also have videos about food and cultur... Read more.
peggyteacheschinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
CantoDict - Online Cantonese Dictionary
CantoDict: an Online Collaborative Chinese (Cantonese) Dictionary. Read more.
cantonese.sheik.co.uk
mikelove – about 10 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
20140607 皇牌大放送 D-Day:水底的战场 诺曼底登陆70周年特辑 - YouTube
【节目简介】 《皇牌大放送》有大量的独家深度报道,凤凰专题团队获全球政治人物官方机构的许可,在此节目中推出独家专题片。 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy Read more.
youtube.com
Zoe – about 10 years
The Grand Listening Cycle: Improve your Chinese listening ability | Hacking Chinese
Learning to understand spoken Chinese is mostly a matter of practice and I've found that having fixed and regular routines helps a lot. This article introduces the grand listening cycle, which cont... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
第二次汉字简化方案(草案)红_百度文库
This document details an additional phase of character simplifications that was never implemented. It's still interesting to look at and whereas some simplifications make sense, others would have m... Read more.
wenku.baidu.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals
This site provides (among other things) interviews with Chinese professionals in different fields. They talk about a wide range of topics. Each interview consists of a relatively short video clip, ... Read more.
laits.utexas.edu
Olle Linge – over 10 years
乡音苑 Phonemica, a panorama of Chinese dialects, painted by speakers through their stories
From the about page: Phonemica is a crowd-sourced project to record spoken stories in every one of the thousands of varieties of Chinese. We believe that each language and dialect is a priceless... Read more.
phonemica.net
Olle Linge – over 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
Learn Taiwanese Mandarin (podcast)
As the name implies, Learn Taiwanese Mandarin is a podcast for those who focus on Taiwanese Mandarin, but well worth checking out if you want to listen to different accents too (which you should). ... Read more.
lear-taiwanese-mandarin.webnode.tw
Olle Linge – 2 months
MaoMi Chinese (intermediate podcast)
The MaoMi Chinese podcast is suitable for intermediate learners, offering mostly scripted monologues to improve your Chinese. The host is from Guangdong and is quite good at explaining more difficu... Read more.
maomichinese.com
Olle Linge – 3 months
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
声动早咖啡 (daily business news podcast)
This podcast keeps you up-to-date with business news in short, daily episodes. It's a great way to both learn Chinese and stay current at the same time. The length of the episodes makes this podcas... Read more.
podcasts.apple.com
Olle Linge – 4 months
铥铥科幻电波 - 未来事务管理局 (science fiction podcast)
This podcast focuses on science fiction in all its forms, from classic works of Western science fiction literature to modern Chinese TV series. Episodes typically focus on specific books, films or ... Read more.
podcasts.apple.com
Olle Linge – 4 months
半拿铁 | 商业沉浮录 (Business story podcast)
This podcast focuses on business-related stories, usually about famous business people or the history of big companies. The two hosts take turns researching a project and then tell the other person... Read more.
xiaoyuzhoufm.com
Olle Linge – 4 months
The Cozy Study
A blog written and managed by an advanced Chinese featuring reviews of books, TV dramas and games. Additionally, the blog also features recommendations for utilising media in Chinese language learn... Read more.
thecozystudy.com
花谢月令 – 5 months
疲惫娇娃 CyberPink
This is a (native-level, authentic) podcast about TV, film and culture. Episodes are long, usually 1-2 hours, focusing on a specific topic, such as a TV series or film, or more general. The discus... Read more.
podcasts.apple.com
Olle Linge – 5 months
Slow Chinese 每周漫闻
This is a newsletter for advanced students run by Andrew Methven. The free version includes a weekly newsletter with highlighted readings and some interesting vocabulary highlighted and discussed. ... Read more.
newsletter.slowchinese.net
Olle Linge – 7 months
可爱的文子是米糕 (Audiobook versions of translated science fiction and fantasy on Bilibili)
This person on YouTube records audiobook versions of translated science fiction and fantasy works. I have so far listened to two complete novels and think he's pretty good at what he's doing, so it... Read more.
space.bilibili.com
Olle Linge – 9 months
Chinese Podcast With Shenglan
Quoted from the website: "Chinese Podcast With Shenglan, a podcast where we talk about language learning, Chinese culture and society, is created for intermediate Chinese learners. These episode... Read more.
chinesepodcastwithshenglan.com
Akobato – 9 months
JinbuPal Chinese Media Library
A free resource from JinbuPal with hundreds of categorized YouTube channel, movie, TV show, podcast, and online reading resource recommendations. Each resource is tagged with helpful information so... Read more.
jinbupal.com
Mike Kennedy – over 1 year
ChineseForUs (YouTube)
ChineseForUs offers a large number of free videos on YouTube. The most basic lessons are much like other lessons found on YouTube, but if you skip to HSK 2 or so, there’s a surprising amount of Chi... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 1 year
Chillchat Podcast
From the website: "Chillchat is a podcast made specifically for Chinese language learning, to create immersion of the language for Chinese learners while covering useful content." During the po... Read more.
buymeacoffee.com
Jennifer – about 2 years
HanziGraph (visual vocabulary relationships)
This website shows you how characters connect to each other to form words, which words characters appear in and also shows thin information in a visual graph (hence the name). There are some settin... Read more.
hanzigraph.com
Olle Linge – about 2 years
A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese (Paul W. Kroll)
*The following introduction was written by John Renfroe and published here: [Learning Classical Chinese is for everyone (no, seriously!)](https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-classical-chinese-... Read more.
amzn.to
Olle Linge – about 2 years
王力《古代漢語常用字字典》
*The following introduction was written by John Renfroe and published here: [Learning Classical Chinese is for everyone (no, seriously!)](https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-classical-chinese-... Read more.
cp.com.cn
Olle Linge – about 2 years
Language Reactor (formerly Language Learning with Netflix)
Language Reactor is a Chrome extension that helps you learn a language while watching your favorite Netflix show or videos on YouTube. It shows subtitles in your target language, in your native lan... Read more.
languagereactor.com
Jennifer – over 2 years
Mandarin Bean: Learn and Practice Chinese
Mandarin Bean offers a large number of texts for beginner and intermediate students that come with a recording, Pinyin you can toggle on and off, as well as a pop-up dictionary that shows you meani... Read more.
mandarinbean.com
Olle Linge – about 3 years
现代汉语通用字笔顺规范电子书 (PRC authoritative stroke order for 7,000 Chinese characters)
This is a digital version of the official authoritative stroke order standard used in China. It is sorted by stroke and is not searchable, so it's a bit hard to use. Thus, other resources will ofte... Read more.
yuke.blcu.edu.cn
Olle Linge – over 3 years
Traditional Chinese Psycholinguistic Database
This website provides a large-scale psycholinguistic norm of 3,314 Traditional Chinese characters along with their naming latencies collected from 140 Chinese speakers. Several variables are gi... Read more.
ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw
Olle Linge – over 3 years
My best advice on how to learn Chinese characters (Hacking Chinese)
This is an overview of how to learn Chinese characters, including understanding how they work, how to learn to read and write them, as well as how to remember the characters you have learnt. Tools ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
How many Chinese characters do you know? (WordSwing)
This is a simple tool that gauges how many Chinese characters you know. Since it's built on self-grading, you can yourself decide how you want to take the test. Do you want to check how many charac... Read more.
wordswing.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
汉语识字量测试 (Chinese character recognition test)
This test estimates your character knowledge in Chinese, mixing a number of different questions. I got 5772 which is probably a little bit high, but in the right ball park. It should be mentioned t... Read more.
arealme.cn
Olle Linge – over 3 years
開放中文轉換 (Open Chinese Convert, OpenCC)
Open Chinese Convert (OpenCC, 開放中文轉換) is an opensource project for conversions between Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese Kanji (Shinjitai). It supports character-level and phrase... Read more.
opencc.byvoid.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
李永乐老师 (Chinese Science teacher on YouTube)
李永乐 is a science teacher who has published a large number of science lectures/lessons on YouTube. Each lesson covers a specific topic, some harder than others, but all aimed at native speakers. You... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
All the resources you need to learn and teach Chinese stroke order | Hacking Chinese
Stroke order for Chinese characters is something most beginners struggle with to begin with, but it's also a problem that quickly fades away over time. This article collects all the resources you n... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
自定义汉字田字格带笔顺的写字(宝宝学习) (Stroke order worksheet generator)
This tool allows you to enter a maximum of nine characters and will then spit out a printable and downloadable PDF file that shows stroke orders above squares where you can write the characters, wi... Read more.
baobaoxuexi.com
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
OptiLingo Language Learning (Chinese)
Description provided by OptiLingo (I have not yet tried this service myself): "OptiLingo is a hands-free language learning app that prioritizes learning Chinese through speaking rather than typi... Read more.
optilingo.com
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
语料库在线 (chcorpus.org)
This is an online and easy to use corpus for Chinese. Choose between modern and classical Chinese (the link goes to modern Chinese, as I assume that that is what most people are after). Enter your ... Read more.
corpus.zhonghuayuwen.org
Olle Linge – over 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
Frequency and Stroke Counts of Chinese Characters: Sorted by Frequency
This is a frequency list that also lists the number of strokes for each character. Not sure why this would be useful, but there are probably some applications. [The same data is also available in a... Read more.
technology.chtsai.org
Olle Linge – about 5 years
Chinese Character Phonetic Sets (HanziCraft)
This list contains phonetic components, sorted by how regular they are, i.e. characters that all sound exactly like their phonetic components are grouped together, and so on. Most students graduall... Read more.
hanzicraft.com
Olle Linge – about 5 years
Classical Chinese Character Frequency List (古汉语单字频率列表)
Character frequencies for Classical Chinese (i.e. not based on texts). This resource was discussed in this article: [The most common Chinese words, characters and components for language learner... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
Olle Linge – about 5 years
Modern Chinese Character Frequency List (现代汉语单字频率列表)
This list from 2005 is based on written Chinese (both fiction and non-fiction). It contains 10,000 simplified characters, with Pinyin and definition. The same data is also available as two separate... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
Olle Linge – about 5 years
University of Leeds: Internet Word Frequencies
This frequency list is based on the Leeds corpus of internet Chinese (90 million tokens from 2005). Simplified characters with no frills. You can [search the corpus directly online](http://corpus.l... Read more.
corpus.leeds.ac.uk
Olle Linge – about 5 years
BLCU balanced corpus frequency lists
These lists are based on a ridiculous 15 billion (simplified) character corpus, composed of news, literature, blogs and much more. It is probably the biggest, most comprehensive dataset available. ... Read more.
bcc.blcu.edu.cn
Olle Linge – about 5 years
K-5 Word Frequency Dictionary for Chinese L2 Learners
This list is somewhat unique in that it draws on materials for people who learn Chinese as a second language, i.e. textbooks, graded readers and so on (read more about the methodology [here](http:/... Read more.
mandarininstitute.org
Olle Linge – about 5 years
Chinese Vocabulary Profiler (Chinese Text Computing)
This website offers many tools related to vocabulary frequency analysis, some of which are also useful for teachers and students. This particular tool, Chinese Vocabulary Profiler, helps you analys... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
Olle Linge – over 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