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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 – about 9 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
Learning the third tone in Chinese (Hacking Chinese)
The third tone is an essentially low tone. The only time it's pronounced with a high element is in front of another third tone (when it turns into a second tone) and when in complete isolation (whi... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 9 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
How to learn Chinese characters as a beginner (Hacking Chinese)
Writing Chinese characters for the first time can be very hard, mostly because it's so different from writing letters. It feels more like drawing a picture than writing! This article is aimed at be... 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
50 Skills and Abilities in Chinese | 一步一个脚印
A neat list skill-related vocabulary in Chinese by Carl Gene Fordham. From the introduction of the blog post: Lately I’ve noticed that Chinese has many words to describe skills and abilities ... Read more.
carlgene.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Chinese character stroke order rules (Understanding Chinese Characters on YouTube)
This is a basic video demonstration of the stroke order rules for writing Chinese characters. It's short and if you find something lacking, your question may have already been answered in the comme... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – almost 9 years
Using Audacity to learn Chinese (speaking and listening) (Hacking Chinese)
Audacity is a marvellous piece of software that allows you to record audio (yourself, other people or whatever is playing on your computer), mimic native speakers, edit and enhance the audio, as we... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Learning the right chengyu the right way (Hacking Chinese)
Many people regard chengyu as the golden key to the Chinese language and believe that learning chengyu will impress native speakers and take their Chinese to the next level. However, learning cheng... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
How and why to use television to learn Chinese
Television is a valuable asset in the modern language learners toolkit. The medium provides a convenient way to enjoy large volumes of passive listening practice in a stress free environment. The c... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Graded Watching for advanced Chinese learners (vocabulary lists and difficulty rating for TV shows and movies)
"Graded Watching makes watching TV series more approachable for Chinese learners by offering a list of Chinese TV shows on Netflix and Youtube sorted by difficulty, along with a vocabulary list for... Read more.
jiong3.com
Olle Linge – over 3 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 – about 8 years
Hacking Chinese: A Practical Guide to Learning Mandarin (video/Audio/Text course)
Through video, text and audio, this course helps you become a better language learner. It also explains many Chinese-specific learning strategies necessary to avoid wasting lots of time or missing ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 8 years
CC-Canto - Open-source online Cantonese-English dictionary (Pleco)
Website for Pleco's new free, open-source Cantonese-English dictionary CC-Canto, with 20,000 dedicated Cantonese-English entries plus another 110,000 entries from CC-CEDICT to which we've added hum... Read more.
cantonese.org
mikelove – over 8 years
Outlier Linguistic Solutions (blog about etymology and characters)
Outlier Linguistics hosts an excellent blog with a large number of insightful articles into Chinese characters. Some of them are directly useful because they talk about learning characters, others ... Read more.
outlier-linguistics.com
Olle Linge – almost 9 years
Tones are more important than you think (Hacking Chinese)
Tones are more important than most people think. Just because native speakers reduce tones and speak quickly, it doesn't mean that you can do the same and get away with it. Don't be fooled by peopl... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 9 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 – about 9 years
Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Pronunciation (Better Chinese)
This clip introduces all the initials and finals in Pinyin (using the first tone). It adds value to the rest of the resources here because the camera is pointed to the speaker’s mouth, showing clea... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – about 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
MandarinBanana: Remembering Chinese Characters by Drawing Like a Four-Year-Old
This website serves the purpose to create memorable mnemonics for simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Users can create mnemonics, and add images to the mnemonics using a paint-like front... Read more.
mandarinbanana.com
Matthias – over 9 years
Introduction to Chinese Characters (Video by ABCsof Chinese)
This is a neat video that introduces Chinese characters to complete beginners. It's not a substitute for a real lecture on how characters work, but this is still the best introduction I have seen s... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Learning with Texts (online version)
An online tool for reading texts in foreign languages and saving & reviewing new words and expressions. It can also be downloaded at http://lwt.sourceforge.net/ but it requires more than average co... Read more.
lwtfi3m.co
ednorog – over 9 years
Horizontal Hanzi: Learn to differentiate similar Chinese characters
Helps with differentiating similar (in appearance) characters. Read more.
horizontalhanzi.com
ChineseTutor – almost 10 years
Learn a Chinese Phrase (Wayne State University on YouTube)
There are currently around 80 videos here that introduces vocabulary and phrases in Chinese. They are mostly idiomatic expressions or other words that typically don't appear in textbooks, so that's... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Hack Chinese - SRS platform for learning Chinese vocabulary online
Hack Chinese is an online tool that aims to solve one of the most pressing challenges faced by Chinese learners: memorizing vocabulary. It caters to non-beginner students who want to reach a high l... Read more.
hackchinese.com
Dariya – over 3 years
HSK level - Online Chinese level test
Test your Mandarin Chinese vocabulary level in a few minutes. Get a an estimate of your HSK level, keep track of your progress to get to the next level! Read more.
hsklevel.com
Frapy – over 3 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 – about 8 years
Those Chinese characters that are really easy to get mixed up (Fluent in Mandarin)
This is blog post listing easily confused characters. It's very helpful to see these next to each other since they are hard to keep separate if you only see them one by one. The selection is based ... Read more.
fluentinmandarin.com
Olle Linge – over 8 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
Nulinu.li
An online tool for vocabulary learning where the user creates lists of learned words and words to learn, and is shown example sentences for learning and reviewing them. Registration required. Read more.
goo.gl
ednorog – over 9 years
Known Chinese Words / Characters Test
This application will test your knowledge of a random sample of Chinese words or characters, both common and rare, for the purpose of estimating the number of Chinese words you know. At the end of ... Read more.
zhtoolkit.com
ednorog – over 9 years
HiNative | A global platform for your questions
HiNative is a Q&A site where you can ask people all over the world about culture, language, anything. We support over 100 languages. Read more.
hinative.com
Rebecca McKay – almost 10 years
10 Simple Phrases for Improving Your Conversational Skills (Skritter Blog)
Every textbook should contain these (and some more) phrases. By learning some common sentences such as "how do I say this in Chinese", "can you please say that again" and so on, you can increase th... Read more.
blog.skritter.com
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
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 – about 1 month
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 – about 2 months
Type IPA phonetic symbols for all languages
This is a simple input tool where you can use your keyboard or mouse to compose text in IPA. If you only need a single word, copy/pasting is probably good enough, but this is handy if you want more... Read more.
ipa.typeit.org
Olle Linge – over 1 year
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
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
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 – almost 5 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 – about 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
L-Lingo
Another SRS App with word database with associated pictures ("Leitner" method) Read more.
l-lingo.com
stefanwienert – about 6 years
Floomli - language exchange network
Floomli is a free platform for exchange languages during video call, voice call or text conversation. By joining Floomli you become a part of a global language practicing network . The main goal of... Read more.
floomli.com
Marek – over 7 years
Mandarin Friend 中文朋友 (explorations in Chinese grammar and vocabulary)
This blog provides in-depth explanations of some grammar and vocabulary topics in Mandarin Chinese. While there aren't a huge number of articles so far, there are enough to issue a general recommen... Read more.
mandarinfriend.wordpress.com
Olle Linge – almost 8 years
Names of the chemical elements in Chinese (Victor Mair, Language Log)
This blog post contains both a list of most of the elements in the periodic table in both Chinese and English, but more importantly, it contains a discussion about the characters used to represent ... Read more.
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
Olle Linge – almost 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
Chinese is Easy! Ep1 - Chinese Tones
This video is produced by Hutong School and explains the very basics of Chinese tones, suitable for the complete beginner or those that are thinking about learning Chinese and want to know a little... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!
For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan walks through a... Read more.
ted.com
Zoe – about 10 years