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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
Chinese Text Sampler: Readings in Chinese Literature, History, and Popular Culture
A carefully chosen selection of 80 significant Chinese texts for students wishing to develop their reading skills while improving their cultural literacy. Includes classical and modern Chinese lit... Read more.
www-personal.umich.edu
mikelove – 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
How to find more time to practise listening (Hacking Chinese)
When it comes to learning to understand spoken Chinese, there are few shortcuts. The more you listen, the more you will understand. But how can we fit more listening into our lives without cutting ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 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
Easing yourself into reading novels in Chinese
Reading a novel in Chinese is the goal for many learners, but perhaps it's easier to accomplish than you think. This article discusses various methods of making novel reading easier in Chinese, ma... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 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
Immersion at home or: Why you don’t have to go abroad to learn Chinese (Hacking Chinese)
You don't have to go abroad to learn Chinese. The main difference between staying at home and going abroad is that it requires less effort to learn once you're there (although it still requires qui... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
知乎 - 与世界分享你的知识、经验和见解 (Chinese Quora)
This site is best described as a Chinese version of Quora, so in other words a site where people ask and answer questions (and discuss other people's questions and answers). Read more.
zhihu.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
A language learner’s guide to wuxia novels
Wuxia can be used as a key to both Chinese language and culture. This article is meant to be a guide to second language learners. If you want to read wuxia in Chinese, where do you start? How do yo... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 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
Escape 逃出去 (text adventure game for Chinese learners)
The following text is from [my article about the game](http://www.hackingchinese.com/escape-text-adventure-game-chinese-learners/). There is also [a trailer introducing it on YouTube](https://youtu... Read more.
wordswing.com
Olle Linge – over 7 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
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
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
Wengu - Chinese Classics
Nice presentation of Chinese classics in original version and English or French translations. Works include 300 Tang Poems, Analects of Confucius, Lao Tse's Tao Te Ching, the I Ching, and more. Chi... Read more.
wengu.tartarie.com
Kai Carver – 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
25 books I read in Chinese last year
My goal for 2013 was to read 25 books in Chinese. This article is about the 25 books I read and is meant to serve as encouragement and inspiration. You might also find a book or two you want to rea... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
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
Master Mandarin: The Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Chinese the Fun Way - Language Mastery
You don’t need to spend thousands on classes. You don’t need boring textbooks. You don’t need to be good at languages. And you don’t have to move to China or Taiwan (though that’s great if you can)... Read more.
l2mastery.com
hanpingchinese – almost 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
Preparing for rainy days and dealing with slumps (Hacking Chinese)
We all experience slumps in our learning, but there are many thing we can do to reduce the negative effects of these slumps. The solution is three-fold: Preparing for the slump before it hits you, ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
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
FourTones (Web music game for learning Chinese)
This game helps you learn tones. You will see the lyrics of Chinese songs approaching you and you're supposed to select which of them actually belong to the lyrics you're hearing. It's a reasonably... Read more.
fourtones.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
天涯论坛 (Tianya Club)
Tianya Club is a very popular online Chinese forum (according to Wikipedia, it's the twelfth most visited website in China). The site is massive, including not only a forum, but also blogs, photo s... Read more.
bbs.tianya.cn
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
CantoDict - Online Cantonese Dictionary
CantoDict: an Online Collaborative Chinese (Cantonese) Dictionary. Read more.
cantonese.sheik.co.uk
mikelove – almost 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
Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar (Edwin G. Pulleyblank)
*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
小故事 – 故事大全 (Online short stories and other texts)
This site hosts a very large number of short stories and other texts, sorted into different categories. These are of course written by native speakers for native speakers, but the reduced length ma... Read more.
xigushi.com
Olle Linge – about 3 years
Teach Yourself Mandarin Blog
All the information you need to know in order to be able to teach yourself Mandarin from scratch with several resources. Read more.
teachyourselfmandarin.wordpress.com
TeachYourselfMandarin – over 5 years
Into the Haze (迷雾中) - Text adventure game for Chinese learners
Into the Haze is an interactive text adventure game for Chines learners. Your brother is missing and you need to enter a city covered in a poisonous haze to find him. The story is presented through... Read more.
wordswing.com
Olle Linge – over 6 years
Grimms' Fairy Tales in Chinese with English (and other) translations
Over 200 of the classic fairy tales by the Grimm brothers, translated to Chinese. The Chinese version can be compared side to side with an English translation (also German and many other langua... Read more.
grimmstories.com
Kai Carver – about 7 years
读中文书俱乐部: Reading Chinese Books (Reddit)
This subreddit is, as the name implies, about reading books in Chinese. A book is chosen each week by the members and is then read and discussed. Usually, there are links to various versions of the... Read more.
reddit.com
Olle Linge – over 7 years
17K小说网 (Chinese web novel portal)
This website hosts a very large number of novels (hundreds of thousands, allegedly). Most are original uploads, so you probably won't find many major published authors here. There are many categori... Read more.
17k.com
Olle Linge – over 7 years
文言 - 維基大典 (Wikipedia about classical Chinese written in classical Chinese)
This is a Wikipedia article about classical Chinese written entirely in classical Chinese. That makes it difficult reading for most students, but I find the idea behind this article very neat and t... Read more.
zh-classical.wikipedia.org
Olle Linge – almost 8 years
纯文学网站 PurePen.com (online versions of 红楼梦, 三国演义, 水浒传, 西游记 and 金瓶梅)
As the title implies, this site offers these great classics in an online and easily accessible version, perfect to copy into your preferred document reader or use online with a good dictionary. Read more.
purepen.com
Olle Linge – about 9 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
Living a Dream in China - Advice for life, love and language learning in China
I find it very hard to classify this blog because it contains a little bit of everything. This is how Sara's describes her own blog: "Finnish girl living in China offering advice for life, love ... Read more.
sarajaaksola.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years