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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
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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
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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
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mikelove – about 10 years
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
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电猫 – over 9 years
Hanping Chinese - Powerful Offline OCR & Dictionary apps for Android
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro and Hanping Chinese Camera are the two highest rated Android apps on Google's Play Store. The dictionary (both free and paid editions available) gives you the ability... Read more.
play.google.com
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hanpingchinese – about 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
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mikelove – about 10 years
Toward Better Tones in Natural Speech
This article describes the basics of way to teach tones that is different from the traditional way mainly in that the third tone is no longer described as a falling-rising tone (since that is rarel... Read more.
sinosplice.com
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
Peking University CCL Online Corpus / 语料库检索系统(网络版)
An online corpus of Chinese language. Size: 477 million characters (1.06 GB). Interface language: Chinese only. Read more.
goo.gl
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ednorog – 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
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Adam_CLO – about 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
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Olle Linge – about 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
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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
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Nick Dahlhoff – over 4 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
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Olle Linge – about 9 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
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
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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
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Olle Linge – about 3 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
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
HSK 3.0 vocabulary list
This is a text file containing all the vocabulary for the new version of the HSK 3.0. Please note that this is not an official list and that it was created based on vocabulary in a book (汉语国际教育用词语声... Read more.
dropbox.com
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Olle Linge – over 3 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
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stefanwienert – over 6 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
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Olle Linge – over 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
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hanpingchinese – almost 9 years
Analyse Your 汉字 (Chinese Vocabulary and Text Analysis)
You can input Charakters and this tool will output statistics about the words and characters, and can suggest high frequency words and characters that should be learned. It also analyses the HSK le... Read more.
hskhsk.pythonanywhere.com
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lazylink – 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
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Kai Carver – over 9 years
Melnyks Chinese (Podcast / Audio Course)
This website and podcast offer theme-based, progressive online audio lessons. There are transcripts, worksheets, mobile apps, videos and more. Not all of this content is free, but the beginning of ... Read more.
melnyks.com
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Olle Linge – almost 10 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
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Kai Carver – almost 10 years
Chinese Word Extractor
A program to split any Chinese text into individual words, summarizing information about each unique word. The information is presented in the form of a tab-delimited matrix, so that the results ca... Read more.
zhtoolkit.com
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ednorog – 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
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Scott – about 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
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Chinese: A Modular Approach (FSI Language Courses)
This course is designed to give a practical command of spoken Standard Chinese. Nine situational modules form the core of the course. Each core module consists of tapes, a student textbook, and a w... Read more.
fsi-language-courses.org
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Standard Chinese phonology (Wikipedia)
This is a basic but fairly comprehensive overview of the phonology of Standard Chinese (or Mandarin, as it might be better known as). This site covers consonants, vowels, syllables, tones, word str... Read more.
en.wikipedia.org
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
A collection of Chinese corpora and frequency lists
This is a collection of several Chinese corpora that can be quite useful if you're looking for detailed information about collocations and the like. Simply entering a word will give you sentences, ... Read more.
corpus.leeds.ac.uk
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Olle Linge – over 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
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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
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Olle Linge – over 2 years
國語文教育叢書第十九:常用國字辨似
This site (originally a book) explains the difference between commonly mixed up (traditional) characters, published by Taiwan's Ministry of Education. As it says in the introduction, the main purpo... Read more.
language.moe.gov.tw
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Olle Linge – over 3 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
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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
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stefan-wienert – over 6 years
Bigram frequencies and mutual information in Modern Chinese (Chinese Text Computing)
This tool gives you the most common bigrams found in news language or general fiction (choose which one). Note that a bigram isn't necessarily a word. For instance, 一个 isn't a word, but it's a very... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
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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
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Olle Linge – over 9 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
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hanpingchinese – about 10 years
The Phonology of Standard Chinese by Duanmu San (Review on Hacking Chinese)
Duanmu San's "The Phonology of Standard Chinese" is by far the best introduction to Mandarin phonology that I'm aware of. It's mostly useful for people who like phonology or are already at an advan... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
This is a site where you can find theses and dissertations published in Taiwan. It's an excellent source if you want to find research about specific topics and improve your reading ability at the s... Read more.
ndltd.ncl.edu.tw
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Olle Linge – over 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 – 5 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
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Mike Kennedy – 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
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Olle Linge – over 1 year
A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese (Paul W. Kroll)
*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
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Olle Linge – over 2 years
王力《古代漢語常用字字典》
*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.
cp.com.cn
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Olle Linge – over 2 years
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
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Olle Linge – about 3 years
现代汉语通用字笔顺规范电子书 (PRC authoritative stroke order for 7,000 Chinese characters)
This is a digital version of the official authoritative stroke order standard used in China. It is sorted by stroke and is not searchable, so it's a bit hard to use. Thus, other resources will ofte... Read more.
yuke.blcu.edu.cn
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
Traditional Chinese Psycholinguistic Database
This website provides a large-scale psycholinguistic norm of 3,314 Traditional Chinese characters along with their naming latencies collected from 140 Chinese speakers. Several variables are gi... Read more.
ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw
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Olle Linge – over 3 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
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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
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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
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Olle Linge – over 7 years