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Mandarin Companion (Chinese graded readers)
Mandarin Companion offers a series of graded readers for learners of Chinese. I haven't read all of them yet, but the two I have read have both been great. Considering that they use a very limited ... Read more.
mandarincompanion.com
Olle Linge – over 9 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 – over 10 years
Hanzi Grids | Create Grid Templates and Worksheets for Practising Chinese
Hanzi Grids lets you create custom Chinese character worksheets and grid paper templates that you can download and print out for handwriting practice. Read more.
hanzigrids.com
imron – almost 10 years
Wenlin Institute: Software for Learning Chinese
Wenlin software makes learning Chinese easier and more interesting, for begining students, life-long speakers, and scholars alike. It combines a comprehensive Chinese dictionary, a Unicode text edi... Read more.
wenlin.com
mikelove – almost 10 years
shiny Chinese – Original Chinese content.
Learning Chinese with real content. An ever growing collection of curated Chinese content. Read more.
shinychinese.com
malaoshi – almost 10 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 – almost 10 years
好讀 (E-books in traditional Chinese)
This site contains a huge amount of e-books in traditional Chinese. My guess is that downloading and reading them without having the original text might be illegal, but even so, it's often great to... Read more.
haodoo.net
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Non-fiction book summaries written in easier to understand Chinese (with audio)
I've taken some book summaries of interesting non-fiction books, rewritten them into simple English and had them translated into Chinese. This way, the vocabulary and grammar will be easier to unde... Read more.
alllanguageresources.com
Nick Dahlhoff – over 4 years
Simulated Tests of the New Chinese Proficiency Test HSK
Recommended and introduced by Trevor [here](http://www.hackingchinese.com/extensive-listening-challenge-october-2014-wrapping-up/#comment-646686). Each book (one for each level of the new HSK ex... Read more.
amazon.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
MandarinMadeEZ | Mandarin Chinese Video Lessons With Fiona Tian
Mandarin Chinese With Fiona Tian is a free video resource for learning Mandarin Chinese in a fun, enjoyable way. Chinese doesn't have to be hard. Kick back, relax, and enjoy. Read more.
mandarinmadeez.com
Gwilym – almost 10 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
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 – almost 10 years
East Asia Student - A Blog About Random Stuff Related to East Asia
This is Hugh Grigg's site about his East Asia studies (as the title implies). Even though the site is about all East Asia, I think most posts are still about Chinese in some way, including a large ... Read more.
eastasiastudent.net
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Learn to read Chinese… with ease?
Is it easy to learn to read Chinese? ShaoLan, among others, claims that it is. I don't agree, and in this article I discuss some common trends among people who try to portray Chinese as being easy.... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Readibu (app for reading web novels)
Readibu is an app that allows you to find and read novels on your phone (iOS and Android). They don’t create the content themselves, but rather connect with various online sites that offer stories ... Read more.
readibu.com
Olle Linge – about 3 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
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
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 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 – about 9 years
The new paperless revolution in Chinese reading
This is an article by David Moser about the incredible changes the digital age has brought to learners of Chinese all over the world. After providing a background for those who started learning Chi... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 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
Anki deck: 小城之春 (Spring in a Small Town) - Full Chinese movie
Anki is spaced repetition software. You can create cards and review them, Anki takes care of the rest. This is an Anki video deck containing each sentence from the movie 小城之春. Each card has one ... Read more.
ankiweb.net
Matthias – over 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
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
A language learner’s guide to reading comics in Chinese (Hacking Chinese)
This article is a guide to reading comics in Chinese, suitable for beginners as well as those who already have some experience. Reading comics is an excellent way of attacking the Great Wall of Chi... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Chinese Hacks (Tips, Tricks, Hacks, Software and Websites to make learning Chinese easier)
Chinese Hacks is run by Dave Flynn and might look similar to Hacking Chinese at first glance, but actually isn't. Most of the articles on Chinese Hacks are about software, apps or other tools for l... Read more.
chinesehacks.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
Asking the experts: How to bridge the gap to real Chinese (Hacking Chinese)
Many students of Chinese think that it's hard to bridge the gap from textbook Chinese to the Chinese used by native speakers in the real world. This article contains useful insights and hands-on ad... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Chinese font test page (Chinese Text Project)
THis is a simple but brilliant tool that allows you to check the fonts you currently have installed on your computer/browser. It shows you a number of pictures of characters next to what your compu... Read more.
ctext.org
Olle Linge – over 9 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
Language Log » Victor Mair
Language Log is an excellent blog where ~20 authors share their thoughts about languages and related topics. While the other authors also post interesting articles, I have chosen to link directly t... Read more.
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Character Pop
Explode Chinese characters into their building blocks; visualize and remember how they are formed. Read more.
characterpop.com
stefanwienert – almost 10 years
煎蛋:地球上没有新鲜事
This website contains a lot of short and easy-to-access articles about science and technology related articles (although they are usually very lightweight, you don't need to actually be a professio... Read more.
jandan.net
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
A collection of novels and e-books (translated from English) in Chinese
This is a huge collection of e-books written in Chinese. A lot of them are originally written in English, so you can find Chinese versions of the Hobbit, The Bourne series, Dan Brown books and many... Read more.
lz.book.sohu.com
Scott – almost 10 years
一步一个脚印 - My mission from advanced Chinese learner to professional interpreter
This is Carl Fordham's blog about his mission to go from being an advanced native speaker to becoming a professional translator. He shares an awful lot of interesting and directly applicable materi... Read more.
carlgene.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Laowai Chinese 老外中文
Laowai Chinese doesn't update often, but when it does, it's usually worth reading. The blog is about anything related to Chinese and China, but I find posts about vocabulary, grammar and culture th... Read more.
laowaichinese.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
SmartHanzi
FREE multi-platform app and desktop software. I use it for looking up words, checking characters etymology, stroke order, collocations. The mobile app also has other functions. For me, this is ... Read more.
smarthanzi.net
Tikaf Viper – 10 months
电子课本网 (digital textbooks for native speakers)
Using textbooks written with the aim of teaching Chinese children about history, mathematics and biology can be great learning resources for adult foreigners as well. This website hosts hundreds an... Read more.
dzkbw.com
Olle Linge – about 2 years
An Introduction to Literary Chinese (Michael Fuller)
*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
田字格字帖生成器 (Chinese Characters Stroke Order Worksheet Creator)
This is a web tool that generates practice sheets for Chinese characters, including stroke order. The interface in entirely in Chinese, but the service is free and requires no log-in. To get stroke... Read more.
an2.net
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
The Mandarin Corner (self-studying Mandarin language and culture)
This is a blog about Chinese language and culture run by Lewis Tatt. It's been online for several years, but I only noticed it recently. It hosts a large number of interesting articles, often focus... Read more.
themandarincornerblog.com
Olle Linge – over 7 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
DigMandarin
DigMandarin offer several interesting resources for free. The blog is a mix of directly useful resources, such as vocabulary for certain situations, and information/inspiration on learning Mandarin... Read more.
digmandarin.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Bilingual legends and folk tales (Snowflake Books Ltd)
Snowflake Books' aim is to introduce English translations to children of specially chosen, ancient legends and folk tales alongside the Chinese language (traditional Mandarin or simplified) to fost... Read more.
snowflakebooks.co.uk
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Mandarin HQ - Learn Basic Mandarin for Social, Travel and Work Situations
This site is a free resource for beginner learners of Mandarin who are looking to develop basic conversational ability for social, travel or work situations. It currently contains a small archive o... Read more.
mandarinhq.com
BK – over 9 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
Hanping Chinese Camera - Android App on Google Play
Save time doing dictionary lookups! Simply point your camera at some Chinese text to get all the English definitions. And everything works offline. Within just a couple of seconds of launching t... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – almost 10 years
《时间都去哪儿了》 lyrics translation: Where Has the Time Gone? 英文翻译
"时间都去哪儿了 has been popular recently, especially since it was performed by 王铮亮 (Wáng Zhēngliàng) on 春晚. I thought I'd have a go at annotating it in English." Read more.
eastasiastudent.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
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 – 4 months
edsko.net - Handwriting samples for the HSK curriculum
This site collects calligraphy references for HSK vocabulary. Most other resources for writing cursive script uses much less frequent characters and aren't suitable for second-language learners. If... Read more.
edsko.net
Olle Linge – 11 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
JinbuPal
JinbuPal is a web app designed to help learners rapidly jumpstart their Chinese skills by focusing on maintaining continual noticeable progress. JinbuPal’s card-based system features individual cha... 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