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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
Foxears – 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
Annotator with tone marks, colours, Pinyin and pronunciation (Purple Culture)
This annotator/converter works like any other, meaning that you paste a text in Chinese and add various features. The reason I recommend it is because it has a function where you can add just the t... Read more.
purpleculture.net
Olle Linge – about 8 years
國語一字多音審訂表 (List of variant character pronunciations, Taiwan standard)
This is a very large list of traditional characters with multiple pronunciations in the form of an Excel file (the other two files are announcements about the list in Chinese). The first sheet just... Read more.
word.hlc.edu.tw
Olle Linge – over 8 years
HanDeDict - Chinesisch-deutsches Wörterbuch
HanDeDict is an open-source, collaboratively edited Chinese-German dictionary, licensed under Create Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 DE). It started out as a translation of the CEDICT Chinese-English diction... Read more.
handedict.zydeo.net
Olle Linge – over 8 years
A Radical View (radicals neatly grouped by theme from gotCharacters)
A neat overview of most of the radicals, grouped by meaning. Sold as a poster too! Read more.
gotcharacters.com
Olle Linge – about 9 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
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
Urban Dictionary Chinese
Urban Dictionary is a user-edited dictionary of colloquial language and slang. This is the Chinese edition. Words are usually explained in English, but sometimes only in Chinese. There are also exa... Read more.
zh.urbandictionary.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 – about 9 years
Tasty Mantou Chinese (Online dictionary)
This dictionary is new and looks promising. It provides easy look-up for characters and words (both simplified and traditional) along with sample sentences with audio. You can also write characters... Read more.
tastymantou.com
Olle Linge – 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
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 – almost 10 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 – almost 10 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
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
hanpingchinese – almost 10 years
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite - Android App on Google Play
This is the free edition of Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro which has over 10,000 downloads and comes with a 30-day full refund guarantee. Lite features: ★ Offline access to all features (unless... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – almost 10 years
新闻主页 - BBC中文网 (BBC Chinese website)
This is the Chinese website of the BBC, which contains large numbers of articles about news and current events. The articles are available in both simplified and traditional Chinese. However, I don... Read more.
bbc.co.uk
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Engadget (Chinese Edition)
Engadget is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics. This is the Chinese version, so anyone who is interested in tech will find lots of readin... Read more.
chinese.engadget.com
Olle Linge – 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
常用國字標準字體筆順學習網 (Common Character Stroke Order Look-up and Training)
This site from Taiwan's Ministry of Education is the definitive resource for stroke order for anyone who is learning traditional characters. Select your search method from the top (單子查詢 for enterin... Read more.
stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw
Olle Linge – about 10 years
東東錯別字詞典:網上中文錯別字字典 (Chinese Spell-checker)
This site allows you to look up what words a character commonly occurs in and what possible problem there are, thus allowing you to answer question like when you should use 欲 and 慾 or 善 and 擅. It a... Read more.
kwuntung.net
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
Fast Chinese (Reading Tool)
This is an application which displays words one at a time in rapid succession, thus (at least in theory) enabling you to read more quickly since you don't have to move your eyes at all. I think thi... Read more.
dheera.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Chinese-Characters.org
This site offers a reasonably comprehensive character dictionary that includes a few things most other dictionaries don't offer, such as etymology (with pictures) and a list of words a certain char... Read more.
chinese-characters.org
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Hanping Chinese Website
This is the website home of the Hanping Chinese Android apps. While the Android apps contain all the Chinese language-learning functionality, the website provides useful app showcasing, FAQs and ap... Read more.
hanpingchinese.com
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 – about 10 years
Language Power Struggles
This article discusses the language power struggle that most learners are very familiar with. "Given a conscious choice between a number of languages to use for interaction, speakers will naturally... Read more.
sinosplice.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Habit hacking for language learners
Forming language learning habits is a key ingredient in any successful recipe for mastering Chinese. This makes sure that we learn regularly and that it becomes a natural part of our lives, rather ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
HSK Grammar Exercises
Basic HSK grammar from beginner to advanced level. The best part is that in each lesson end, there is a quiz to test if you have really mastered the grammar. Read more.
hskcourse.com
Joshua – about 1 month
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 – 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 – 4 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
Olle Linge – 4 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 – 6 months
mylingua (personalised news feed in Chinese)
Mylingua is a new platform that allows you to access authentic Chinese reading content from the internet, helping you pick reading material that both suits your interests and your reading ability. ... Read more.
mylingua.world
Olle Linge – 6 months
可爱的文子是米糕 (Audiobook versions of translated science fiction and fantasy on Bilibili)
This person on YouTube records audiobook versions of translated science fiction and fantasy works. I have so far listened to two complete novels and think he's pretty good at what he's doing, so it... Read more.
space.bilibili.com
Olle Linge – 8 months
Chinese Podcast With Shenglan
Quoted from the website: "Chinese Podcast With Shenglan, a podcast where we talk about language learning, Chinese culture and society, is created for intermediate Chinese learners. These episode... Read more.
chinesepodcastwithshenglan.com
Akobato – 8 months
edsko.net - Handwriting samples for the HSK curriculum
This site collects calligraphy references for HSK vocabulary. Most other resources for writing cursive script uses much less frequent characters and aren't suitable for second-language learners. If... Read more.
edsko.net
Olle Linge – 11 months
JinbuPal
JinbuPal is a web app designed to help learners rapidly jumpstart their Chinese skills by focusing on maintaining continual noticeable progress. JinbuPal’s card-based system features individual cha... Read more.
jinbupal.com
Mike Kennedy – over 1 year
ChineseForUs (YouTube)
ChineseForUs offers a large number of free videos on YouTube. The most basic lessons are much like other lessons found on YouTube, but if you skip to HSK 2 or so, there’s a surprising amount of Chi... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 1 year
zi.tools 字統网
This website allows you to look up all sorts of things related to characters, including pronunciation in historical and regional varieties, components based on their pictographic origin, and much m... Read more.
zi.tools
Olle Linge – over 1 year
Learning and teaching resources from the Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (University of Oxford)
This website contains a large number of resources for learning and teaching Chinese, including introductions to the spoken and written language, characters, grammar and pronunciation. They also pro... Read more.
ctcfl.ox.ac.uk
Olle Linge – about 2 years
Chinese Character Counting
This is a simple and easy-to-use tool to quickly count the number of Chinese characters and number of unique characters (called "distinguishable characters" for some reason). It can add up several ... Read more.
blankego.github.io
Olle Linge – about 2 years
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
Olle Linge – about 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
Olle Linge – about 2 years
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
Jennifer – over 2 years
國家教育研究院雙語詞彙、學術名詞暨辭書資訊網 (bilingual and scientific vocabulary search)
This site is hosted by the National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan) and offers a search function to facilitate working with English and Chinese vocabulary in an academic setting. Search f... Read more.
terms.naer.edu.tw
Olle Linge – almost 3 years
百度百科 (Internet encypclopedia)
百度百科 is a collaborative encyclopedia that covers a huge range of topics, sometimes with surprising quality, even including video and in-depth discussions of topics. When searching for various thing... Read more.
baike.baidu.com
Olle Linge – about 3 years
十万个为什么 (10why.net)
This site is provided by 科普中国, and as the name implies, it answers why questions about everything from aliens to economics. The articles are of varying length and while there aren’t literally 10,00... Read more.
10why.net
Olle Linge – about 3 years
Chinese at Ease
Chinese at East has around 60 texts available for free for beginners and intermediate learners. Compared to other resources, the interface is not very fancy and only consists of Chinese characters,... Read more.
chinese-at-ease.com
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
Olle Linge – about 3 years