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Pleco Software - Learn Chinese with dictionaries for iPhone, iPad and Android

Pleco is one of the most popular mobile dictionaries for Chinese learners. It basically removes the need for any kind of paper dictionary and allows easy look-up for words using English, hand-writi... Read more.

pleco.com

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Dictionary Mobile SRS

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Olle Linge about 10 years

Skritter (app to help you learn to write Chinese characters)

Skritter is an app for learning Chinese vocabulary, especially handwriting. It offers smooth handwriting input with some corrective feedback, combined with spaced repetition that allows you (or me,... Read more.

hackingchinese.com

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Mobile Paid SRS Web

15 1

Olle Linge about 10 years

Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcards

Anki is by far the most versatile spaced repetition software out there. It's not the easiest one to install and understand exactly how to use, but once you are familiar with it, you can do anything... Read more.

ankisrs.net

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps SRS

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Olle Linge almost 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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Reading Resource-collections Literature

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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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Reading Vocabulary Writing Tools-and-Apps Characters Classical-Chinese Dictionary Handwriting Literature Productivity Simplified-Characters Teaching Traditional-Characters Translation

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mikelove almost 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

Advanced Intermediate Reading Resource-collections Book Literature Traditional-Characters

5 0

Olle Linge almost 10 years

Learning, powered by imagination - Memrise

The Memrise community uses images and science to make learning easy and fun. Learn a language. Learn anything. Read more.

memrise.com

Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Game Web

5 0

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

Advanced Intermediate Reading Information-and-Advice Literature

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Olle Linge about 10 years

开卷八分钟 (8-minute introductions to books in Chinese)

This program provides 8-minute introductions of various books. The fact that each program is so short makes it very easy to listen to and it's also a good way of learning more about Chinese literat... Read more.

phtv.ifeng.com

Advanced Listening Resource-collections Audio Literature Review Video

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Olle Linge over 9 years

Hanping Cantonese Dictionary

Offline Cantonese dictionary app for Android. Supports both Traditional and Simplified characters as well as Jyutping and Yale pronunciation. Handwriting recognition, syllable-by-syllable native... Read more.

play.google.com

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Android Audio Cantonese Dictionary Handwriting Mobile Paid Pronunciation Simplified-Characters Traditional-Characters

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hanpingchinese 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

Advanced Intermediate Reading Information-and-Advice Literature

4 0

Olle Linge about 10 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

Advanced Intermediate Listening Reading Tools-and-Apps Audio Game Text Web

3 0

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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate General Tools-and-Apps Audio Characters Chrome Course Game Input-method Online-Tool Paid Pronunciation Simplified-Characters SRS Web

3 0

Sarah about 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

Beginner Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Android Cantonese Dictionary iOS Mobile Online-Tool Web

3 0

mikelove 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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Chinese-in-context Language-learning Reading Tools-and-Apps Android Cantonese Dictionary OCR Paid Pronunciation Simplified-Characters Text Traditional-Characters

3 1

hanpingchinese almost 9 years

Anki deck: 小城之春 (Spring in a Small Town) - Full Chinese movie

Anki is spaced repetition software. You can create cards and review them, Anki takes care of the rest. This is an Anki video deck containing each sentence from the movie 小城之春. Each card has one ... Read more.

ankiweb.net

Advanced Intermediate General Tools-and-Apps Simplified-Characters SRS Video

3 0

Matthias over 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

Beginner Intermediate Listening Reading Audio Book Literature Parallel-texts

3 1

Kai Carver 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

Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Characters Online-Tool Simplified-Characters SRS Traditional-Characters Video

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Matthias over 9 years

Taiwanese Mandarin (Wikipedia)

This article is an excellent start for anyone who wants to know more about the Mandarin spoken in Taiwan. In general, it's very similar to the Chinese spoken on the Mainland and most Taiwanese peop... Read more.

en.wikipedia.org

Beginner Intermediate Chinese-in-context Living-in-Chinese Information-and-Advice Dialects

3 0

Olle Linge over 9 years

56听书网 (online audiobook streaming)

This website offers a very large number of audio books in Chinese, directly available for streaming (no registration or log in necessary). If you don’t want to listen online, try finding a plugin t... Read more.

ting56.com

Advanced Listening Resource-collections Audio Literature

3 1

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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Reading Resource-collections Literature Parallel-texts Translation

3 0

Kai Carver 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

Advanced Intermediate Reading Information-and-Advice Literature

3 0

Olle Linge about 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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Chinese-in-context Reading Writing Tools-and-Apps Characters Simplified-Characters SRS Traditional-Characters

2 4

Tikaf Viper 9 months

Zungzi (flashcard app for Apple Watch)

A spaced-repetition flashcard app on the Apple Watch to learn Chinese vocabulary from the HSK word lists. Read more.

apps.apple.com

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Simplified-Characters SRS Traditional-Characters

2 1

Alan Modey about 2 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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Characters Online-Tool Paid SRS Web

2 1

Dariya over 3 years

TOFU Learn

TOFU Learn is an SRS flashcard application that works on the web and on mobile. They support most languages, but have specialised in Chinese. They are often quick to fix issues when their users rep... Read more.

tofulearn.com

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Android Dictionary iOS Mobile Simplified-Characters SRS Traditional-Characters Web

2 0

Foxears about 6 years

PolyglotGamedev (Gaming vocabulary)

This is a very, very large document with thousands of translated gaming terms in 25 languages, including both simplified and traditional Chinese. It can be useful for learners who want to brush the... Read more.

docs.google.com

Advanced Intermediate Vocabulary Resource-highlights Game

2 0

Olle Linge over 8 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

Advanced Intermediate Listening Resource-highlights Audio Game

2 0

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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate General Resource-collections Dialects Input-method Online-Tool Text Web

2 2

Olle Linge about 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

Beginner Language-learning Listening Reading Tools-and-Apps Android Game Pronunciation Simplified-Characters Traditional-Characters Windows

2 1

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

Advanced Intermediate Listening Reading Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Game Music Web

2 6

Olle Linge over 9 years

Foreigncy (Reading and vocabulary practice for advanced learners)

Foreigncy provides daily digital flashcards, with audio, that prepare a user to read a foreign policy or economics from a regional source. The site also provide users with an English language summa... Read more.

foreigncy.org

Advanced Reading Vocabulary Resource-collections Economics News Politics Text

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Olle Linge over 9 years

Mnemosyne Project (flashcard spaced repetition software)

Mnemosyne is a spaced repetition program available for most platforms. It doesn't offer specific Chinese support, but is general enough to work for almost everything and there are decks of flashcar... Read more.

mnemosyne-proj.org

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps SRS

2 0

Olle Linge almost 10 years

CantoDict - Online Cantonese Dictionary

CantoDict: an Online Collaborative Chinese (Cantonese) Dictionary. Read more.

cantonese.sheik.co.uk

Advanced Intermediate Language-learning Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Cantonese Dialects Dictionary Forum Online-Tool Web

2 0

mikelove almost 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

Advanced Intermediate Listening Speaking Resource-collections Audio Cantonese Dialects Web

2 0

Olle Linge about 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

Advanced Listening Resource-highlights Game Video VPN-required

2 0

Olle Linge about 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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Chinese-in-context General Language-learning Listening Reading Information-and-Advice Resource-collections Resource-highlights Tools-and-Apps Audio Blog Book Cantonese Game Literature Mobile Simplified-Characters Traditional-Characters TV Web

1 0

花谢月令 3 months

疲惫娇娃 CyberPink

This is a (native-level, authentic) podcast about TV, film and culture. Episodes are long, usually 1-2 hours, focusing on a specific topic, such as a TV series or film, or more general. The discus... Read more.

podcasts.apple.com

Advanced Listening Resource-highlights Audio Literature Podcast TV Web

1 0

Olle Linge 4 months

Language Reactor (formerly Language Learning with Netflix)

Language Reactor is a Chrome extension that helps you learn a language while watching your favorite Netflix show or videos on YouTube. It shows subtitles in your target language, in your native lan... Read more.

languagereactor.com

Advanced Intermediate General Tools-and-Apps Audio Chrome Dictionary Online-Tool TV Video Web

1 0

Jennifer 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

Advanced Reading Resource-collections Literature Simplified-Characters

1 0

Olle Linge about 3 years

中英對照香港學校中文學習基礎字詞 (Lexical Items with English Explanations for Fundamental Chinese Learning in Hong Kong Schools)

An official website from Hong Kong's Education Bureau, showing basic information about characters and words, accessed through a variation of input methods (typing, radical look-up, Pinyin, Cantones... Read more.

edbchinese.hk

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Cantonese Dictionary Handwriting Traditional-Characters Web

1 0

Olle Linge about 3 years

ChineseMe

ChineseMe is the most integrated Mandarin course, designed for motivated learners who have decided to become fluent. It is an interactive textbook that adapts itself to your interests. The course i... Read more.

chinese-me.com

Beginner Intermediate General Courses-and-textbooks Audio Book Chrome Handwriting Paid Pronunciation Text Web

1 0

Tim about 6 years

L-Lingo

Another SRS App with word database with associated pictures ("Leitner" method) Read more.

l-lingo.com

Beginner Intermediate Language-learning Listening Reading Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Online-Tool SRS Web

1 0

stefanwienert about 6 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

Advanced Intermediate Listening Reading Tools-and-Apps Audio Game Text Web

1 0

Olle Linge over 6 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

Advanced Intermediate Reading Social-learning Book Forum Literature Web

1 0

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

Advanced Reading Resource-collections Literature Simplified-Characters Web

1 0

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

Advanced Reading Writing Resource-highlights Classical-Chinese Literature Web

1 0

Olle Linge over 7 years

Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects experimentally tested (Tang & van Heuven, 2009)

This is a research paper detailing a study of the mutual intelligibility of Chinese topolects. Dialects were sorted into groups and then it was experimentally tested how much of words and sentences... Read more.

openaccess.leidenuniv.nl

Advanced Intermediate Listening Living-in-Chinese Resource-highlights Dialects Research

1 0

Olle Linge almost 8 years

ChineseSkill (game-based, task-driven app)

From their website: Features: - a game-based and structured curriculum optimized for English-speaking beginners; - compartmentalized contents designed for studying in fragmented times; - an... Read more.

chinese-skill.com

Beginner General Courses-and-textbooks Tools-and-Apps Android Game iOS Simplified-Characters Traditional-Characters

1 0

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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Reading Speaking Vocabulary Tools-and-Apps Characters Chrome Dictionary Game Online-Tool Paid Pronunciation Simplified-Characters Traditional-Characters Web

1 0

ChineseTutor almost 10 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

Advanced Beginner Intermediate Listening Tools-and-Apps Chrome

1 0

Olle Linge about 10 years

“China’s tower of babel” and the language/dialect question. Again. (Sinoglot)

What's a dialect? What's a language? Are Mandarin, Cantonese and Wu different languages or are they dialects of the same language. The answer is that there is no answer, it depends. This is a short... Read more.

sinoglot.com

Beginner Intermediate Speaking Information-and-Advice Dialects

1 0

Olle Linge about 10 years

NEOTV 星际争霸2 - 视频站

This is one of the major broadcasters of StarCraft 2 games in China. Apart from having lots of news about the game, they also stream matches, both live and in video format. Almost all content is in... Read more.

v.neotv.cn

Advanced Listening Resource-collections Game Video

1 0

Olle Linge about 10 years