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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
Lang-8: Multi-lingual language learning and language exchange
Learning a foreign language, most people lack proper feedback from native speakers. Even if we have friends and teachers, always having to ask for help isn't very good. Lang-8 is a website that con... Read more.
lang-8.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Du Chinese (mobile app for Chinese reading practice)
This is a reading app that contains a number of lessons for beginner, intermediate and advanced students. Apart from the reading material, there is also recorded (not synthesised) audio. The app al... Read more.
duchinese.net
Olle Linge – over 8 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 – about 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 – about 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
Sing Chinese Songs - Listen to Chinese music and learn Chinese with famous Chinese songs
Resource suggested and introduced by Carlton Gay ([here] (http://www.hackingchinese.com/extensive-listening-challenge-october-2014-wrapping-up/#comment-661842): This is a free simple site with a... Read more.
singchinesesongs.com
Olle Linge – over 9 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
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
Sing Chinese Songs - Listen to Chinese music and learn Chinese with famous Chinese songs
The official introduction sums it up pretty well: It's a place where you can listen to Chinese music and learn Chinese with famous Chinese songs in Mandarin (simplified characters). As well, le... Read more.
singchinesesongs.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
新闻公告 - 汉语考试服务网 (HSK & YCT test resources)
This website offers a large number of previous HSK and YCT Chinese proficiency tests, sorted by year and level. This is excellent for test preparation and/or benchmarking. Read more.
chinesetest.cn
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
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
Chinese Tools - 40 lessons
As the name implies, Chinese Tools is mostly about tools for learners and teachers, but they also have 40 lessons for beginner students of Chinese. This is not reading practice in the sense of most... Read more.
chinese-tools.com
Olle Linge – about 3 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
TutorMandarin: Online Mandarin Tutor
TutorMandarin is an online Chinese tutoring software and service. Students take 1-on-1 classes with professional Mandarin tutors on PC, Android, or iOS. Full courses from Beginner to Advanced, Spok... Read more.
tutormandarin.net
hanpingchinese – over 6 years
Learn languages online for free with Mondly - Language learning made easy, fun and free
Mondly is a mobile app very similar to Duolingo (which does not support Chinese). Pro: * more or less straight course to take, no distractions * It has several languages besides Chinese. Th... Read more.
mondlylanguages.com
stefan-wienert – over 6 years
Hanping Chinese SoundBox (now rolled into Hanping Dictionary) (Android App on Google Play)
UPDATE 2017: This app is now rolled into our Hanping Dictionary apps (Lite, Pro & Cantonese). Great way for beginners to practice single and double-syllable Chinese words. ★ Ideal for any stu... Read more.
hanpingchinese.com
hanpingchinese – over 8 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 – 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
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
瞎扯学中文 Convo Chinese
Convo Chinese is tailored for intermediate and advanced learners and dives into genuine Chinese dialogues spanning a wide range of topics from daily life to global politics. As the name implies, th... Read more.
podfollow.com
Olle Linge – 3 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
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
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
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
Inkstone
Inkstone : Learn Chinese on the go - no Internet connection required! Read more.
skishore.me
hanpingchinese – over 6 years
@HanpingChengyu Twitter account (animated Chinese Idiom per day)
Follow this Twitter account to get a new animated Chinese Idiom (Chengyu) in your Twitter feed every day. Characters are Simplified Chinese, pronunciation is Pinyin (coloring is [Hanping's](http://... Read more.
twitter.com
hanpingchinese – almost 8 years
Select and Speak (Text-to-Speech Chrome Extension)
Select and Speak uses iSpeech's human sounding text to speech (TTS) to let you select text from almost any website and make it talk. This is excellent both for productivity and for added listening ... Read more.
chrome.google.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Visual Chinese Search
A search tool for finding visually similar Chinese characters. Input a Chinese character and see a list of other characters that look roughly the same. The tool also offers character decomposition ... Read more.
visualchinesesearch.com
Kevin Bullaughey – almost 7 years