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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 Language Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange is a site where people can ask questions to the community and get answers back. These answers are then rated by other people in the community and the most helpful answer can be chose... Read more.
chinese.stackexchange.com
Olle Linge – 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
shiny Chinese – Original Chinese content.
Learning Chinese with real content. An ever growing collection of curated Chinese content. Read more.
shinychinese.com
malaoshi – about 10 years
Tatoeba - Collecting example sentences
Tatoeba offers sentences in many languages (you can choose yourself which languages to search for). This is excellent if you want to find your own example sentences for your Chinese vocabulary or i... Read more.
tatoeba.org
Olle Linge – over 9 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
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
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
尸兄 Zombie Brother 第1集 【騰訊漫畫人氣榜第一!】
zombie Brother (尸兄) is a cartoon series about zombie apocalypse. It's quite bizarre at points and contains a fair amount of blood, violence and other elements not suitable for children. Each episod... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
The World of Chinese | Culture, Language, Travel, Food, Living in China, and more
The World of Chinese is a magazine and website that offers a wealth of information about Chinese language and culture. They also have an active Twitter feed you should check out. This is their offi... Read more.
theworldofchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Chinese Seal Generator (Chinese-Tools.com)
Get your own unique and personalized Chinese Seal, with your name or any sentence. This tool is useful if you want to create a generic Chinese-looking logo or seal for almost any purpose. There are... Read more.
chinese-tools.com
Olle Linge – over 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
The Hacking Chinese Podcast
The Hacking Chinese podcast is about how to learn Mandarin, with in-depth discussions about how to approach challenges, solve problems and get the most out of your learning. Currently available ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
Pinyin chart - Chinese Pronunciation Wiki
This is probably the best Pinyin chart available. It offers all syllables with all tones, but also transcriptions in other systems, including the International Phonetic Alphabet, Zhuyin and Wade-Gi... Read more.
resources.allsetlearning.com
Olle Linge – almost 6 years
听故事,学中文Learning Chinese through Stories - 主页 Home
A podcast collection of Chinese short stories with explanations in Chinese graded to 7 levels. Transcript. Vocabulary list. Free. The explanations are very clear and use repetition and synonyms s... Read more.
learningchinesethroughstories.com
Liz H – about 6 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
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
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
Hanping Chinese Popup
The ultimate solution for quickly looking up Chinese words on your smartphone or tablet, no matter what app (or system screens) you are using. Note: For Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher. Whe... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – almost 9 years
Pinyin Joe's Chinese Computing Help Desk (Windows, Ubuntu Linux, smartphones, macros and more)
User-friendly advice on MS Windows, Ubuntu Linux and smartphone Chinese setup, Chinese input methods (IME), Chinese fonts and Chinese Language Packs (MUIs), plus free downloads for MS Office, a sur... Read more.
pinyinjoe.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
百家讲坛官方频道 (YouTube video lectures with subtitles)
This is a popular education channel which presents lectures of different kinds, where experts share their knowledge with ordinary people (which is quite different from lectures at universities held... Read more.
youtube.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
How every Chinese province really got its name
The stories behind the names of all of China's provinces and autonomous regions. Read more.
online.thatsmags.com
stefanwienert – 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
Character Pop
Explode Chinese characters into their building blocks; visualize and remember how they are formed. Read more.
characterpop.com
stefanwienert – almost 10 years
Arch Chinese - Learn to read and write Chinese characters
Arch Chinese offers a wide range of tools, but the thing I really find worth highlighting is the dictionary. It's pretty helpful for beginners as it contains stroke order animations and a lot of in... Read more.
archchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Pinyin introduction and audio charts
This is the traditional Pinyin chart with audio, with the added benefit that you can download it and use it offline. Contains separate mp3 files. Female speaker with clear pronunciation. Edit: Y... Read more.
chinesepod.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
YouTube to MP3 Converter - Fast, Free (ListenToYouTube.com)
Ever wanted to listen to the clips you've found on YouTube? This tool allows you to convert YouTube clips to mp3 files. This is excellent for listening practice! You can use it for music, commercia... Read more.
listentoyoutube.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Pinyin Conversion: Number <> Tone Mark (Lexilogos)
This is a neat little tool that converts pin1yin1 with numbers to pīnyīn with tone marks. Very simple, very useful. Read more.
lexilogos.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
动画:蔡志忠系列之 白蛇傳 (Legend of the White Snake)
A 50-minute long animated version of the Legend of the White Snake. This is an excellent way of learning about famous Chinese stories without spending too much effort reading about them. There are ... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Online Pinyin Input Method (網上拼音輸入法)
Online Pinyin Input Method is a free online Chinese typing tool using Mandarin/Putonghua pinyin codes. We empower you to type Chinese online anytime, anywhere with any computer for free! Read more.
pinyinput.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Matzka - 情人的眼淚(完整版)
This song is raw emotion. I seldom like emotional music, but I can think of few voices that could convey this lyrics better than his. The lyrics is relatively simple and the pronunciation is clear.... Read more.
youtube.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
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 – almost 4 years
电子课本网
This site collects almost a thousand textbooks used in Chinese schools, ranging from grade 1 up to senior high school. Subjects cover Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, biology, his... Read more.
dzkbw.com
Olle Linge – about 6 years
Langademy (Learn Languages online with native speakers)
Langademy is a language learning social network that connects students with natives from all over the world. Students can practice Chinese, English, French or any other language at Langademy by mak... Read more.
langademy.com
Olle Linge – over 7 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
Starcraft 2 Mandarin (all unit voices in Chinese, YouTube)
This is a YouTube channel that contains all (?) audio from the units in the Chinese version of StarCraft 2. First, I think it's pretty cool that they've translated so thoroughly and such a large vo... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Chinese Converter (convert between Pinyin/Zhuyin, traditional/simplified, tone/number, text/image)
This is an awesome site with various conversion tools, including: * Simplified-Traditional convert * Chinese text to image * Most Recent Chinese Images * Pinyin convert * Zhuyin tool * Unic... Read more.
chineseconverter.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
柴静雾霾调查:穹顶之下 (Under the Dome, documentary)
This is the Chinese documentary that has gone viral recently, discussing air pollution in China. This documentary is in Chinese with Chinese subtitles (simplified). Excellent reading and listening ... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Chinese Computing Information (input methods, fonts, browsers, coding)
This is a comprehensive introduction to the world of digital Chinese, including the following: Script Basics Activate Keyboards for Typing Browser Recommendations Web Developm... Read more.
sites.psu.edu
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
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
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
Live It China - Find your language partner
This site offers language exchange partners (and also seems to plan to provide tutors and language teaching services as well). The language partner part of the site is free, though, so if you're lo... Read more.
liveitchina.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
Pinyin Practice ~ Initials, finals and tones
A simple but useful tool fol learning the basics of Chinese pronunciation. The tool simply gives you initials, finals and tones (separately) and you will be asked to give the right answer. There ar... Read more.
pinyinpractice.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
甘比亚大陆 - 虎扑篮球论坛
A Chinese discussion forum / social news site with discussions about almost everything. Good for reading about your particular interests or perhaps even participating in the discussions yourself. Read more.
bbs.hupu.com
Olle Linge – about 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 – about 10 years
Chinese Calligraphy Editor (Chinese-Tools.com)
Create your own Chinese calligraphy with a character, a word, a sentence or any text. Choose the size, style, orientation, simplified or traditional Chinese characters. This tool offers a wide vari... Read more.
chinese-tools.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
弦子 - 逆風的薔薇
As far as I know, this isn’t the kind of music 弦子 is typically associated with (I’ve checked some of the other albums and didn’t like them at all). This song is quite good, though, even though her ... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
王菲 - 再見螢火蟲
王菲 is extremely well-known in China (or in the West as Faye Wong) and has a marvellous voice, here used to create something darker and leaning more towards rock. Very good indeed. The lyrics make t... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
TeSL星海2冠軍賽 | Sen Vs San
This is the final match in the Taiwan E-sports League in StarCraft II between Taiwan's long-time champion Sen and a Korean guest player San. Note that even though watching games and sports in Chine... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years